 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1878 - 382 lehte
...every bough, and passiug from tree to tree, entangling the giants in a great network of coiling cables. Sometimes a tree appears covered with beautiful flowers...branches. Amongst these are large arums that send down long aerial roots, tough and strong, and universally used instead of cordage by the natives. Amongst... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1878 - 416 lehte
...every bough, and passing from tree to tree, entangling the giants in a great network of coiling cables. Sometimes a tree appears covered with beautiful flowers...rope-like stems to the ground. Climbing ferns and vanilla eling to the trunks, and a thousand epiphytes pereh themselves on the brandies. Amongst these are large... | |
 | 1890 - 664 lehte
...every bough, and passing from tree to tree, entangling the giants in a great network of coiling cables. Sometimes a tree appears covered with beautiful flowers,...do not belong to it, but to one of the lianas that twine through its branches, and send down great rope-like stems to the ground. Climbing ferns and vanilla... | |
 | Alfred Russel Wallace - 1891 - 518 lehte
...every bough, and passing from tree to tree, entangling the giants in a great network of coiling cables. Sometimes a tree appears covered with beautiful flowers...branches. Amongst these are large arums that send down long aerial roots, tough and strong, and universally used instead of cordage by the natives. Amongst... | |
 | George Newnes, Herbert Greenhough Smith - 1892 - 672 lehte
...every bough, and passing from tree to tree, entangling the giants in a great network of coiling cables. Sometimes a tree appears covered with beautiful flowers...ground. Climbing ferns and vanilla cling to the trunks, conias, leathery melastomae, and succulentstemmed, lop-sided 'leaved and freshcoloured begonias are... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1892 - 508 lehte
...every bough, and passing from tree to tree, entangling the giants in a great network of coiling cables. Sometimes a tree appears covered with beautiful flowers which do not belong to it, but to one of the 1 Hamerton's Landscape. lianas that twines through its branches and sends down great rope-like stems... | |
 | William E. Simmons - 1900 - 386 lehte
...perch on the forks and send down roots like cords to the ground. Lianas wind round every trunk and hang from every bough, passing from tree to tree, and entangling...it, but to one of the lianas that twines through its branchs and sends down great ropelike stems to the ground. Climbing ferns and vanilla cling to the... | |
 | William E. Simmons - 1900 - 364 lehte
...coiling cables, as the serpents did Laocoon; the simile being strengthened by the fact that H 113 \ many of the trees are really strangled in the winding...it, but to one of the lianas that twines through its branchs and sends down great ropelike stems to the ground. Climbing ferns and vanilla cling to the... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - 1904 - 482 lehte
...of coiling cables. Sometimes a tree appears covered with beautiful flowers 1 Hamerton's Landscape. which do not belong to it, but to one of the lianas that twines through its branches ancl sends down great rope - like stems to the ground. Climbing ferns and vanilla cling to the trunks,... | |
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On each side of the road great trees towered up, carrying their crowns out of sight amongst a canopy of foliage, and with lianas hanging from nearly every bough, and passing from tree to tree, entangling the giants in a great network of coiling cables.... 