IN FLORIDA 73 
out of those fleshy, often unsightly leaves is a strange pleasure, a 
spur to the fancy which is surely wholesome, if we will but believe 
that all these things were invented by A Fancy, which desires 
to call out in us, by contemplating them, such small fancy as we 
possess.”’ 
It is only when seen growing on the trees in tropical or semi- 
tropical forests that they really look natural, for there they fully 
harmonize with the magnificent tangled growth, the confusion of 
struggling lianas and the veritable air gardens of wild Tillandsias 
and other epiphytes which sometimes load down the limbs to 
the breaking point. It is in such environment alone that one 
can appreciate their weird and almost unearthly grotesqueness 
and beauty; it is there that their brilliant and fantastic blossoms 
shine out almost like stars in the darkness. 
