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grow likewise many large trees, whose stems are covered 

 with Bromelias, Tillandsias, Orchises, Ferns, and climbing 

 Begonias. Occasionally we see "a large plant of Cactus 

 truncatus hanging from rocks, or from the stem of some of 

 these large trees, covered with hundreds of beautiful pink 

 blossoms " then crossing over a hill, we find the top of it 

 covered with plants of the Orchis family. In this situation 

 too grows a lovely shrub of the Yiolet family (Luxemlurgm 

 ciliosa], with large corymbs of lemon-coloured flowers ; and 

 Bamboo, of two different species, here grows in such thickly 

 tangled confusion, that " the getting through these is the 

 most difficult part of our journey." 



There is a large and elegant species of Bamboo (Bambusa 

 Togoara] which grows at an elevation of 2000 feet on these 

 mountains, the stems of which are often eighteen inches in 

 circumference j the height of this gigantic Grass, which 

 bends downwards at the top in a graceful curve, varies from 

 fifty to a hundred feet. Palms and Tree-Perns, too, we meet 

 with in numbers about half-way up the mountain, some of 

 the latter reaching to the height of forty feet. 



But far different are the emotions which the Tree-Perns 

 here excite, from those we experienced when we first made 

 acquaintance with them in Tasmania, where their light 



