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leaves, made into a short close-fitting skirt, or from strings of 
banana fibre, often adorned by a string of blue beads. 
As in Ue anda proper, at convenient intervals, well kept 
and buresqut thatched rest houses exist, and from that at 
Buhugu (about 4,500 ft.) we started on the 23rd August, 1921, 
for the Bamboo Camp (about 10,000 ft.), having a very steep 
climb up the grassy slope leading to Butandiga, 7000 ft. This 
hill seemed interminable, brits the porters went up ve 
cheerily. Bananas and “wimbi” lined the road on either 
hand, with occasional vg spaces of scrubby pasturage for 
sheep and goats, a rather monotonous stretch. One has only 
to turn round to have a fine panorama of hill and plain, and 
on attaining the ledge on the road to and nearly at Butandiga, 
one stands on the periphery of a huge amphitheatre. The 
varied colours of the cultivated patches below stand out in 
relief, the “‘ wimbi ” shows a vivid yellow, contrasting admirably 
with the bluish green of the bananas and the deeper green of 
the small isolated patches of forest. At this ledge and onwards 
there is much of botanical interest. The road lies to the left 
of an almost perpendicular rocky bluff covered with Aloes, 
Crassulas and many species of ferns, including fine Adiantums. 
From here to the Bamboo Camp the slope is gentle, the road 
is of soft close turf, making walking easy and goes through low 
scrub with much bracken and bramble on either hand, among 
which, near the camp, were some gigantic Crinums, not then 
in flower. At one point the track lies very close to the edge 
of a rock precipice and one looks down nearly 3,000 ft. into 
the tumbled valley below. The road itself is of rock for a 
hundred yards or so, and in all soil-retaining cracks is a lovely 
little blue-flowered Commelina with finely fimbriate segments. 
Upwards the vegetation begins to change and definitely 
montane types appear, occasionally Helichrysums and a terrestrial 
orchid with inconspicuous, dull green flowers are noticed. There 
was on the whole a marked absence of bloom, and evidently the 
visit was unfortunately timed in this respect. Heather of a tall 
straggling form (Hrica arborea) increased in abundance as we 
li ; buds were showing, but did not promise great 
attractiveness. The Helichrysums though full of buds showed 
only here and there an occasional silvery white, pink-tip 
flower-head. On one of the ridges were several patches of a 
fine Impatiens, 3 to 4 ft. high, supported in the surrounding 
vegetation, with broad, white, maroon-centred flowers and 
deliciously fragrant. Higher up we reached a belt of forest of 
medium height, mainly Podocarpus (P. milanjianus, Rendle), 
picturesquely draped with Usnea, so reminiscent of the common 
tropical American Tllandsia usneoides, and shortly after, we 
reached the outposts of the bamboos. The species here, slender, 
erect and with very long nodes, is not nearly so beautiful as 
the feathery, arching Chusqueas of the Central American uplands. 
From here on we had occasional glimpses of the summit, very 
