THE FLORA OF GAZALAND. 3 
Towards morning the weather suddenly changed, and in a few minutes 
everything was thoroughly soaked. Nevertheless, wandering about the face 
of the crag in a dense Scotch mist, and clambering from one narrow ledge to 
another, I succeeded, in such spots as had proved inaccessible to the recent 
grass-fires, and especially in a deeply-cut chimney in the face of the rock, in 
getting together quite a number of plants, most of which were unfamiliar to 
me, amongst them three heaths that have since proved to be new to science. 
An orchid with reddish fleshy leaves, not in flower, hung everywhere from 
the rocks, and in some parts a small aloe (perhaps Aloë rhodesiana) grew 
on the ledges, many of which were exceedingly rich in ferns. When later 
in the day the mists rose, I discovered that I was standing on a grassy 
ridge with the highest peaks nearly as far away as ever, separated from 
me by a valley yet broader and more broken than the first. However, in 
the immediate vicinity were two dense and most attractive-looking forest- 
patches and a splendid wooded gorge, Nearly everything was in flower, with 
the result that, though my visit was brought to a speedy close by the 
continuance of the bad weather, I got together a very representative little 
collection. The “ cedar,” Widdringtonia Whytet, was decidedly the most 
interesting of the larger trees. It is fairly common on the edges of wooded 
gorges and dense forest-patches throughout the higher portions of Northern 
Melsetter, but never attains here the enormous size described by Whyte 
for those of the Milanji range. In general these mountain forests, though 
dense and rich and composed largely of evergreen trees, are far lower 
and less striking than those of Southern Melsetter. Тһе trees average little 
more than forty feet in height, and the most characteristic are the large 
dark-leaved Cussonia umbellifera, Aphloia thewiformis, Curtisia jfaginea, and 
two species of aurea ; and, on Mount Pene, a good-sized straight-growing 
Musa (M. lanceolata, a narrow-leaved form very different in appearance 
from M. lanceolata of Southern Melsetter) and large specimens of Eugenia 
owariensis. This mountain, Pene, or, as it is more commonly called, 
Singwek we, is separated from the Chimanimani by the gorge of the Haroni, 
and with its single отаззу peak, 7000 feet above sea-level, forms quite a 
landmark throughout the district. I visited it on the Following day and 
again in October 1908, and have never anywhere seen such masses of 
colour in the form of wild flowers as I found on both occasions on its high 
turfy slopes. In the stonier places were numbers of a new Anemone 
(A. peneensis). There are clumps of fine Strelitzias at the heads of many of 
the glens, and the wood covering its eastern face is, especially towards the 
summit, one of the best examples of mountain forest I have seen and contains 
fine specimens of a large Podocarpus (P. milanjiana), of which I had 
already found young trees in flower on Ње Chimanimani. Curiously 
enough there appear to be no “cedars” here. The large thick-trunked 
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