Crossword-Solution: ELATA 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 5

The huge trees which border the road have their stems and branches nearly hidden by orchids and epiphytes--chiefly that lovely and delicate one whose likeness to a hovering dove won for it the name of the "Flower of the Holy Ghost," an orchid (Peristeria elata) which lives but for a day, but in its brief life fills the air with fragrance.

Mitrasacme elata, and all the other little plants I have before mentioned, were growing in the stringy-bark forest.

Nam & in Caira, altissima montis cacumina niuibus semper candentia esse perhibentur: & in Beragua quidem similiter, sed 5000 passuum in coelum elata, quć niuibus nunquam liberentur, cum tamen partibus tantum decem ab ćquatore distent.

The hottest of all orchids probably is _Peristeria elata_, the famous "Spirito Santo," flower of the Holy Ghost.

There are about six species of the genus Corypha in tropical Asia, but only one of these is found in the Philippines; this is Corypha elata, the buri palm.