574 THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE. 
[Arni 30, 1887. 
among huge upheaved boulders, which lie pro- 
colony; Aspidium Plumieri, Adiantum oliva- 
ceum, A. phyllitidis, and Selaginella platyphylla. 
Polypodium blechnoides was also common here 
among them we noticed a Locust tree 
(Hymen:ea Courbaril) against which lay a large 
quantity of gum that had tumbled out of its 
decayed centre. The tree was 6 feet in diameter 
and over 100 feet high, and the centre many 
feet from the ground was full of gum. The 
pet feta is deposited perey while the tree 
still stands; when, in the course of decay, it falls, 
the gum is found in the centre among the 
milk, however, was not copious, owing probabl 
to the previous dry weather, and perhaps partly 
to the nature of the ground. There was a соп- 
siderable variety of ен те; Mb of Palms I 
iced Tooroo and Bactr 
Ascent оғ Mount Ray-Wa. 
I was anxious to get back to the ке, 
before dark, as I did not wish to hav 
a second day there, and I found the س‎ ой 
about half-way up a tough bit of climbing in 
such a climate, As I have before said, the upper 
part consists of a sheer escarpment of naked rock, 
some 500 or 600 feet high. It stands out like a 
prominent headland, ide: bn and appears to 
be the inati ong mountain 
ridge. Though it was daly about 2 P.M., the 
shadow which i ver the lower part of 
the ascent made it appear like evening twilight 
in nige The ascent of this face is impos- 
sible to an ture, and we had to work round 
it, pulling vincens up by tho help of trees, roots, 
or creepers, or by the projecting stones, our foot- 
ing often insecure enough, 
We reached the top breathless, aud parched with 
obliquatum, that I had only gathered before in the 
valley of the i River. Vanilla grandiflora was 
common on rees, At last, after making our 
way through үл thicket for about ten or fifteen 
minutes, we reached the open brow of the precipice, 
and there the reward of our labour was revealed at a 
Cecilie The sight that met our eyes was magnificent 
in the extreme. Away in front, as far as the eye could 
reach, Fu right and left, bounded only by the 
horizon, into the haze of which it faded without 
trace of угы or limit, lay spread below us an unin- 
terrupted forest scene of surpassing beauty and 
, upon which we looked down 
e limitless panorama. No savannah and no 
n, and over it all lay, ever-shifting, 
the sunshine and ا‎ of the sky above. Although, 
as I haye said, the land over the whole of this region 
is undulating, eee in ridges 100 to 200 feet high, 
во elevated is the outlook and so vast the area sur- 
veyed by the ere, that no inequalities were ob- 
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