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10,000 feet a fine Hypericum, growing as quite a tall tree, makes its 

 appearance. This has very large flowers, with a calyx that is bright 

 yellow inside, but vivid crimson on the outer side of the petals. Between 

 7,000 feet and 9,000 feet the Abyssinian violet grows abundantly, 

 ^loreover, there is a bramble, the flower of which is strangely similar to 

 that of a wild rose.* This bramble has a large fruit like an English 

 blackberry. Another liramlile or raspberry has a fruit the size of a 

 strawberry, but in ap])earance somewhat like a hop. Umbelliferous plants 



138. A HOT SPKINU, EASTERN SU^E UF KUWENZOKl, CLOSE TO KLIMI KIVEK, AT 5,500 FEET 



like wild carrot or hemlock grow luxuriantly lietween 8,000 and 11.000 

 feet. A Senecio, or giant groundsel (exactly like Senecio johnstoid of 

 Kilimanjaro, but, I am informed, a species new to science), commences at 

 8,500 feet and grows at least as high as altitudes of lo,000 feet. 

 Haberiaria ground orchises grow from 9,500 to 11,000 feet. A flower 

 ver}^ like the English " lady's-smock " grows between 8,500 and 12,000 

 feet; a white flower of the cabbage order grows under cliffs at 12,500 to 

 13,000 feet. 



Perhaps the most remarkable feature in the vegetation of the up[)er 



* Jxuhus dorigetti. 



