Innumerable epiphytes covered the limbs, and even grew on the roughened trunks.

Here are the poison and its antidote,the monster tree and its miniature epiphyte,the plant that astonishes by its magnitude, and the one that delights us by its minuteness.

The soil on this part of the island is a stiff clay, and the plants it produces are mostly woody; those of an herbaceous character were scarce, and only a few orchideous epiphytes and ferns were seen.