160 DEL AGO A BAY. 



try to net them. The large seeds are used in 

 the Kafir game 1 lately mentioned. 



Two very sweet-scented flowering bushes one 

 with magenta pea-shaped flowers, the other with 

 blossoms like bright yellow hawthorn produce 

 their flowers growing thickly along the branches 

 almost before any of the leaves appear, and con- 

 sequently lose much of their beauty. One hand- 

 some bush (Tecoma Capensis) grows in great 

 profusion, bearing bunches of scarlet flowers, 

 but without scent. The seeds are very pretty- 

 looking, like a pair of transparent wings ; they 

 lie packed in a dense mass in long pods. 



The small Kafirs are fond of decorating their 

 heads with this flower, and stick large bunches 

 of it on the bushes and the extreme tops of high 

 trees. 



At first I thought this was only done for deco- 

 ration, but soon discovered that the flowers were 

 used for no such innocent purpose, but were tied 

 to a stick smeared with the milky juice obtained 

 from the rind of the fruit of an india-rubber 

 (Landolphia Monteiroi), as a bird-lime for the 



