Crossword-Solution: VELLOZIA 8 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 20

Suspended from the roof is a fine specimen of the “Wabo” Bamboo (_Dendrocalamus_) from Burma, 81 feet long; and on the floor of the gallery are specimens of the Vegetable Sheep (_Raoulia_) of New Zealand, a large aërial root of a Banyan, a Brazilian Tree-lily (_Vellozia_), a large Bamboo from Demerara, an Australian Grass-tree (_Kingia_), a Brazilian Palm (_Acrocomia_), a Sugar-cane, and a Japanese Cycad.

Along with the _Vellozia_ grew two beautiful subscandent species of _Echites_,[2] one with large dark violet-coloured flowers, the other with white ones of a similar size.

Leaving the valley of the gold mines, which is above a mile in length, and beginning to ascend the higher part of the Serra, which is very thinly wooded with small trees, and covered with abundance of tree-lilies (_Vellozia_), as well as several kinds of coarse grass, we arrived at a place near the summit, which was rocky, steep, and of difficult ascent.

Many slaves are employed by their owners in cutting the large shrubs that grow in the ravines, within a short distance from the city, the branches of which are made up into bundles, and offered for sale from house to house; the stems of the large tree-lily (_Vellozia_) are also collected for fuel, particularly a kind that exudes abundance of resinous matter.