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jungle of ferns, convolvulus, bananas, and flowering lilies, enlivened by 
and surrounding densely forest-clad mountains. Dark green clilis 
covered everywhere with masses of creeping plants, tower above tht 
train, their tops concealed by low-lying clouds. At one point a detp 
narrow valley spreads out into the plain below and from the train one 
looks down upon square miles of tropical tree tops of various shades of 
green. 
The evidences of intense insolation in the deep reds and bright 
yellows of the young foliage are few as compared with west Java 
Sumatra, or Trinidad, and the occasional white foliage of a species 0 
Araliacee remind one of the candle nut trees (A/eurites) in the 
Hawaiian landscapes. In the early morning a sea of clouds aaa 
out the view of the harbor and replaces it with a most curiously 
effective scene. 
Rio is the largest city of Europeans within the tropics, and = s 
Petropolis, its fashionable suburb, has been expended, in beautiful vill 
and gardens, the wealth and taste of its most successful merchall® 
the undergrowth between the immense forest trees of Myrtace® 
Ficus. The roadsides are lined with thickets of native TaSP! 
bearing attractive bright red but insipid fruit. The walls — 
/embankments are covered with mosses, filmy ferns, lichens, and ie 
“ worts, with occasional polypodium. The light gray trunks ‘a ri 
forest trees are spotted with bright red patches formed by 4 speci 
