coral-isles

Updated: May 22, 2025

Hence the continual effect of glittering light. "A little lower than these tall queens of the coral-isles rise fairy-like canopies of graceful tree-ferns, often festooned with most delicate lianas; and there are places where not these only, but the larger trees, are literally matted together by the dense growth of the beautiful large-leaved white convolvulus, or the smaller lilac ipomaæ, which twines round the tall stems of the palms, and overspreads the light fronds like some green waterfall.

W. H. Davenport Adams - Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century