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EUAYENZORI AND ITS SNOWS 



slender, and is covered tlirougliout the whole of its length with blossoms 

 concealed from sight by large green bracts. The blossoms, when examined, 

 are found to be of a greenish white, inclining to red. The other kind 

 of lobeha (Z. decheni) is also found (?) on Mounts Kilimanjaro and Kenya. 

 Its general appearance is best described by the accompanying illustration. 





142. "a BEAUiitLL ^WAMPV (.AKUK.N": L Pl'EK JILliUKO VALLEY AT II,000 FEET 



Itf reaches to a total height of about fifteen feet above the ground. The 

 flower-stalk is sometimes nearly six feet long, and is much thicker and 

 larger than the first described lobelia. The green bracts to a great extent 

 conceal the ultramarine-blue flowers, which grow at right angles to the 

 stalk, though when the flowers are absolutely mature they reveal for a day 

 or two an excjuisite shimmering of blue all up and down the stalk. These 

 lobelias, with their aloe-like leaves and strange flower-columns, remind one. 



