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UUWENZORI AND ITS SNOWS 



10,000 feet a fine Hi/pericurn, growing as (juite a tall tree, makes its 

 appearaiice. This has very large Howers, with a ealvx that is liright 

 yellow inside, but vivid crimson on tlie outer side of the petals. Between 

 7,000 feet and 9,000 feet the Abyssinian violet grows abundantly. 

 Moreover, there is a bramble, the flower of which is strangely similar to 

 that of a wild rose.* This bramble has a large fruit like an English 

 blackberrv. Another Ijramble or raspberry has a fruit the size of a 

 strawberrv, but in a[)pearance somewhat like a lio]i. Umbelliferous plants 



138. A HOT SPUING, EASTERN SHJE OF KUWENZOKI, CLOSE TO KLI.Ml KIVKK, Al S i'J'J I IHI 



like wild carrot or hemlock grow luxuriantly ]:)etween 8,000 and 11,000 

 feet. A Senecio, or giant groundsel (exactly like Senecio johnstoni of 

 Kilimanjaro, but, I am informed, a species new to science), commences at 

 8,500 .feet and grows at least as liigh as altitudes of lo,000 feet. 

 Habenaria ground orchises grow from 0,500 to 11,000 feet. A flower 

 very like the English " lady's-smock " grows between 8,500 and 12,000 

 feet ; a white flower of the cabbage order grows under cliffs at 12,500 to 

 13,000 feet. 



Perhaps the most remarkable feature in the vegetation of the upper 



* Ruhus doiigetti. 



