TO THE CAMEROON MOUNTAINS. 5 
with beautiful Cyatheas. The stems of the trees were clothed with 
Trichomanes ; and Dicksonia selinifolia grew on nearly every stem 
of Cyathea. Hypolepis pteridioides appeared ; and a small Orchid, 
not in flower, grew over the branches of the trees. The soil was 
covered with a thick clothing of Selaginella Vogelii as with a 
beautiful green carpet, and adorned with the beautiful flower- 
heads of a Hemanthus 6 inches in diameter, and the less con- 
spicuous but no less beautiful flowers of a species of Calanthe. 
After an hour’s walk through the forest, we reached the end of 
a lava-stream which flowed from the mountain in a S.S.W. direc- 
tion. The extremity or basin (?) (alt. 4967 ft.), in which I sank 
to the loins, and which contained a great quantity of water, was 
clothed with a small Nephrolepis, and the moss, No. 1413. Here 
the Ericinella appeared first, in company with Leucothoé angusti- 
folia, Rubus apetalus, and Clematis Simensis, on the border of 
the wood which fringed both sides of the stream. After we had 
climbed on the lava for an hour, the Nephrolepis disappeared, 
and the moss and lichens, Nos. 1411, 1412, took its place; these, 
we everywhere found, formed the first vegetation on the lava- 
field. Near these, two species of Orchidaces were observed, 
which continued for the next five hours, when they were suc- 
ceeded by Crassula Manni. After the lapse of this time, I saw 
before me three small hills, of which two were coloured black, and 
formed the crater from which the lava-stream had flowed. When 
we reached this, my guides asked me where I would sleep; to 
Which I replied, where I could find water. (Altitude of base of 
these hills 7309 ft.) 
Consequently we made only a short rest here, and passing the 
base of a row of hills, we reached, after twelve hours’ walk, the 
beginning of a forest at the bottom of a grass-grown crater, and 
followed a footpath which seemed to be for the use of hunters. 1 
here saw the small Bleria spicata, and the other beautiful plants 
Hypoxis villosa, var., and Sopubia Madagascariensis. 
On approaching the borders of the wood, I saw Hypericum 
angustifolium, and the magnificent plant Lasiosiphon glaucus, in 
full flower. Pittosporum Mannii and Paratropia Mannii gave the 
forest a beautiful fresh green, while the other Paratropia (P. elata) 
had lost nearly all its leaves, and was just coming into flower. 
On entering the forest, I found myself among a mass of flowers 
which highly delighted me; there was, indeed, scarcely a leaf to 
be seen. Two Acanthaces were loaded with flowers. There was 
also the leafless Plectranthus insignis; and I a]so saw, for the first 
