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The gloomier and wilder the brown forests are in the highlands of Ceylon, the more the 
traveller is agreeably surprised by the appearance of tree-ferns. In the wicinity of a brook and 
often under the shade of surrounding trees, amidst climbing bamboos and thorny shrubs, their 
graceful, palm-like shafts shoot forth, displaying their delicately plumed heads of the brightest trans- 
parent green. 
| The group of young tree-ferns (Alsophila crinita) represented in plate XVII was sketched 
on a spot near the highest point of the road, leading from Neuera-Ellia to Rangbodde, situated 
about 7000’ above the level of the sea. 
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