The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . y. The most striking among themis the so-called wild Plantain, Ravenala guianensis,the Travellers Tree, the enormous leaves ofwhich rise from near the gro\ind to a height of 10 to each being but a great rosette of long, pointed, saw-edged leaves, grow singly or in small groups on themore sandy parts of the forest floor. Aloe-like plantsare very rare j a few occur scattered widely over thesavannah, and one form, Cordyline micrantha, growsin such dense masses on one particular plateau thatit constitutes
The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . y. The most striking among themis the so-called wild Plantain, Ravenala guianensis,the Travellers Tree, the enormous leaves ofwhich rise from near the gro\ind to a height of 10 to each being but a great rosette of long, pointed, saw-edged leaves, grow singly or in small groups on themore sandy parts of the forest floor. Aloe-like plantsare very rare j a few occur scattered widely over thesavannah, and one form, Cordyline micrantha, growsin such dense masses on one particular plateau thatit constitutes the whole prospect. Among Ferns thereis no need for much mention of the low-growing heib-like forms, such as are familiar in temperate are enormously abundant throughout Guiana, tliechief forms being various species of Adiantum, Lind-saya, Polypodium, Acrostichum, and, above all, thelovely little filmy Ferns, Trichomanes and Hymeno-phyllum. But three forms, occurring in Guiana,which belong more especially to the tropics, are theTree Ferns, the climbing, and the creeping Fig. I18.—HELiERA HEt-IX MADEIRENSIS VARIEGATA. (SEE P. 656.) way; others are spiral, and yet others are twistedround each other as evenly as if by human art. Manykinds of Palms occur in places, some species singly,others in thickets, and others even massed in numberslarge enough to deserve the name of forest; so thatwhile in some places none of these plants arevisible, in others many individuals of one speciesfill the scene. Of the erect Palms, the leavesof which spring from a common centre, generallyfrom the top of a more or less lofty and stoutstem, those with fan leaves are, with the exception ofone very common species (Mauritia flexuosa) rare;t those with feather leaves form the bulk, and one ofthese, Maximiliana regia, has its leaflets so arrangedalmost spirally round the midrib that the wholeleaf is rather plume-like than feather-like ; anotherManicaria saccifera, has an enormous obl
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