As we proceeded we entered forest still unburnt, and a tangle of beauty such as we saw at Chaguanas.

There rose, once more, the tall cane-like Manacque palms, which we christened the forest nymphs.

The path was lined, as there, with the great leaves of the Melastomas, throwing russet and golden light down from their undersides.

Here, as there, Mimosa leaflets, as fine as fern or sea-weed, shiver in the breeze.

A species of Balisier, which we did not see there, carried crimson and black parrot beaks with blue seed-vessels; a Canne de Riviere, {161a} with a stem eight feet high, wreathed round with pale green leaves in spiral twists, unfolded hooded flowers of thinnest transparent white wax, with each a blush of pink inside.