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JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
who provided us with that most apt colour phrase which so 
exactly expresses a tone which one means without binding one 
down too closely to the colour of any particular wine.) Broad¬ 
leaved Aroids grow in the stream at the sides, their leaves and 
white or green flower-spathes constantly swaying with the 
current. Here and there a fallen tree, often, in these higher 
grounds, of some size, lies across the water, its upper surface 
covered with a close-growing carpet of thin moss, its lower 
surface almost constantly wetted by the running water. On the 
higher part of such a trunk are grass-like tufts of Zygopetalum 
graminifolium, its erect, hair-like flower stems carrying two or 
three most daintily beautiful yellow, brown barred flowers, its 
thick fleshy white roots at first twisted much together, and then 
spreading out over the surface of the bark and reaching down 
far enough to bathe their growing points in the water. On both 
sides of the trunk, just where the deeper colour of the moss 
indicates the average height to which the water level of the 
stream rises at certain seasons, the turf of the moss is every¬ 
where penetrated by the threadlike wiry rhizomes of a very 
minute but very lovely Fleurothallis (? P. acutissima of 
Coigneaux’ “Flora Brasiliensis ”), the tiny, acutely pointed 
leaves of which are hardly distinguishable from the mossy 
covering of the bark, while the small purple twin flowers, in 
that they are carried well over the foliage, are only a little more 
easily seen, though if put under the microscope they appear as 
amongst the most gorgeous of Orchid flowers. 
A few sandstone rocks crop out over the surface of the water, 
their tops above water level clad with similar moss to that on 
the tree trunk. Higher up the stream, toward the head of the 
miniature reach, these rocks are more numerous, barring the 
water, which there dashes through the channels between the 
rocks with some small force. On the higher parts of such 
rocklets, ever wetted by the spray from the top falls, grow 
exquisite ittle clumps of a rare and beautiful little Orchid, Cheira- 
denia ctispidata, each plant a delightful little cluster of leaves, 
well over which the very fine but sturdy flower stalk carries the 
magnificent little flowers. 
I cannot refrain from giving one more creek scene, this time 
much nearer to the sea. The deep sluggish water here winds 
through a swamp almost entirely covered by masses of a prickly 
palm ( Badris leptocarjoa, Trail), the grey-green stems and 
