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Epiphytes: 1) Malayan urn vine (Dischidia major, or Dischidia rafflesiana) with cross section of a leaf; 2) Polypodium quercifolium; 3) Thruppence urn plant (Dischidia imbricata, or Conchophyllum imbricatum); 4) Psychopsiella limminghei or Oncidium Limminghii; 5) Sacred fig (Ficus religiosa); 6) Bulbous airplant (Tillandsia bulbosa); 7) Elkhorn fern (Platycerium grande); 8) Spanish moss (Tillandsia usneoides). Epiphytes are organisms, that grows on the surface of a plant, without getting involved as with parasites and do not necessarily negatively affect the host. Lithograph, published in 1897.