SOUTH AMERICA 
Caladium Bicolor, rather plain parents of many of 
our present fancy-leaved Caladiums, growing in the 
alluvial clay of the Amazon basin in South America. 
The Easter Orchids Cattleya mossiae, are collected 
in the high, cool forests of Venezuela, and sold over 
the counter in Caracas for planting out in patios. 
In the hot humid and impenetrable lowland jungle 
of Guiana grows Monstera pertusa, not as good a 
keeper as Philodendron pertusum which comes from 
the drier climate of Mexico. 
On the road to the low jungles of Esmeraldas, in 
Ecuador, this girl brought out a beautiful Oncidium, 
one of the Dancing Doll Orchids. Here we also find 
Paphiopedilum caudatum, Lantanas and Daturas. 
The trees are loaded with Orchids and Bromeliads, 
and Treeferns begin to appear down toward Chiri- 
boga, at 6,000 feet. 
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