228 POPULAR GEOGRAPHY OF PLANTS. 



soms of the Gloxinia speciosa, covering the cool damp rocks 

 in the greatest profusion, whilst nothing breaks the silence 

 but the dash of the waves, to that with which we had hitherto 

 seen it, ranged in formal rows in a hothouse, or in a crowded, 

 heated tent at a flower-show, with a quadrille-band for an 

 accompaniment. Growing in the same situation as the 

 Gloxinia, we find a kind of wild Parsley ; and twining among 

 the bushes close by, we meet with a plant which we are sure 

 is a kind of Nasturtium, or Indian -cress (jRropaolum ortho- 

 ceras, Gardn.), though not quite so showy as the species 

 which has now so long been the pride of English cottage- 

 gardens that we have ceased to regard it as a foreigner. 



On a neighbouring mountain we are attracted by some 

 plants with rose-coloured flowers, growing in large patches 

 together, which we find to be one of those beautiful large- 

 flowered Orchideous plants which are so common in Brazil ; 

 this is Cattleya laliata, with broad leaves and very conspi- 

 cuous blossoms. Here we again meet with the lily-like 

 Vellozia Candida, with its awkward bare branches adorned 

 by a beautiful Orchideous plant, an Epidendrum, to which 

 they serve as a resting-place; it is a foot or more in height, 

 with small rose-coloured blossoms, and a few leaves arranged 

 in pairs, quite at the bottom of the stalk. 



