166 DELAGOA BAY. 



sadly misses the lovely green grass of an English 

 meadow that lends additional beauty to the 

 field flowers. Here half their beauty is spoilt 

 by their surroundings of tall rank grass or last 

 season's dead and decaying mealie-stalks. 



One very tiny flower (a striga), like a lobelia, 

 and the brightest scarlet imaginable, grows on a 

 single stalk with small leaves, about three or 

 four inches high. 



A very lovely blue flower, growing on a 

 trailer, crops up everywhere. Two of the petals 

 are large, looking like wings, reminding one of 

 Canariensis. A yellow species, exactly like it 

 in shape, is also found here, but is not a 

 trailer. There is another common blue flower 

 something like these, but not so pretty ; and I 

 Lave seen the familiar garden plant that children 

 call " devil in the bush," or something very 

 like it, with its pretty blue flowers nestling 

 deep down among its spiky leaves. 



Yellow field flowers seem most common, but 

 perhaps that is only due to the colour most 

 readily catching the eye. Two species, one like 



