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orange, of greenish while, pink, uiid mauve. Some trees or eree))ers 

 {Gombretura racertiosurii) are like tlie Boucjainvillia, throwing out 

 wreaths and veils and cascades of the most exquisite mauve or red-violet, 

 where the colour is given bv bracts, the flower itself being crimson 

 and of small size. Blue alone appears to be missing from this gamut 

 of colour in the forest flowers, though it is frequently present amongst 

 herbaceous shrubs or plants growing close to the ground, and so far 

 as the trees are concerned, is often supplied bv the beautiful species 





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of turaco that particularly affect the forest, and by large high-flying 

 butterflies. 



The woodland of tro])ical luxuriance ascends in Uganda to a heiglit of 



