Crossword-Solution: AROIDS 6 letters, 13 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Plant life here was exceedingly beautiful and interesting, especially high up in the mountains, palms, _pandanus,_ cycads, crotons, _acalyphas, loranths,_ aroids, _freycinetias,_ ferns and orchids being strongly represented, and among the latter may be mentioned a fine orange _dendrobium_ and a pink _calanthe._ I found in flower a celebrated creeper, which Ratu Lala had told me to look out for.

The beautiful tree-ferns themselves were loaded with other ferns, orchids, and mosses; every fallen tree was draped with fresh green forms, every swampy bit was the home of mottled aroids, film ferns, and foliage plants, mostly green and gold, while in some places there were ginger-worts with noble shining leaves fully six feet long.

Retrogression is the leading idea in the larger families of the group, [631] as for instance in the aroids and the grasses.

Nearly the whole extent of this natural wall is covered with plants, among which you can easily discern numbers of ferns and mosses, two species of Pitcairnia with beautiful red flowers, some Aroids, various nettles, and here and there a Begonia.

How different such a spot would look in cold Europe! Below, in the midst of a never-failing drizzle, grow luxuriant Ardisias, Aroids, Ferns, Costas, Heliconias, Centropogons, Hydrocotyles, Cyperoids, and Grasses of various genera, Tradescantias and Commelynas, Billbergias, and, occasionally, a few small Rubiaceae and Melastomaceae.' The cascade, when I saw it, was somewhat disfigured above and below.