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with man-hunting proclivities of a deadly variety. The nonsense 

 of such statements may perhaps be explained by the fact that 

 at least some of the stories have been written by poor, fever- 



Epiphytes in the Bosque at Para, mostly ferns, aroids, melastomads 

 bromeliads, gesneriads and Selaginella. 



Stricken wretches who ascribed to these innocent climbers not 

 their true function but the impression they made upon the mind 

 of one in no condition to judge. These great woody streamers, 



