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EUWENZORI AND ITS SNOWS 



slender, and is covered throughout the whole of its length with blossoms 

 concealed from sight by large green bracts. The blossoms, wlien examined, 

 are found to be of a greenish white, inclining to red. The other kind 

 of lobelia {L. (/eckeni) is also found (?) on Mounts Kilimanjaro and Kenya. 

 Its general a})pearance is best described by the accompanying illustration. 



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 142. "a BEAU'J'ii'i 1. s\vAMl■^ i;.\i;h]:.\ " ; ii'I'Ek jiujsuko vallkv at 11,000 feet 



It reaches to a total height of about fifteen feet above the ground. The 

 flower-stalk is sometimes nearly six feet long, and is much t flicker and 

 larger than the first described lobelia. The green bracts to a great extent 

 conceal the ultramarine-blue flowers, which grow at right angles to the 

 stalk, though when the flowers are absolutely mature they reveal for a. day 

 or two an exquisite shimmering of blue all u[) and down the stalk. These 

 lobelias, with their aloe-like leaves and strange flower-columns, remind one, 



