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flower white with purple indigo lines and 

 markings, looking like an elegantly shaped 

 trumpet with a parasol over the top joined to 

 the tube in five places. The ribs and ferrule 

 can all be seen, and where it does not join, 

 a purple fringe hangs down, completing the 

 resemblance. Another of this character has 

 very small greenish-drab flowers, with no fringe 

 to the canopy. A pretty climber (Cryptolepis 

 Monteiroce) has cream-coloured flowers with 

 brown centre. Another of the same tribe 

 (Chlorocyathus Monteiroce) has green flowers. 

 A milky juice creeper with heart-shaped leaves 

 (Dcemia Angolensis ?} has a pretty little brownish 

 flower not unlike a drooping clematis, attractive 

 to the sphingidse ; and at Catembe I found a 

 clematis closely resembling " traveller's joy " 

 straggling over the ground and low bushes in 

 great profusion. A tendril creeper with bluish- 

 green leaves and small white flowers grows to an 

 enormous size, looping together tall trees with 

 a cable-like stem four inches in diameter. 



Many of the prettiest-leaved creepers belong 



