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grew much scarcer as we travelled over higher ground ; but six 

 weeks previously these upper tanety had also been gay with 

 great masses of the brilliant crimson flowers of a leguminous 

 plant, which grew in clusters of many scores of spikes growing 

 close together. Our ride that day obliged us to modify the 

 opinions previously held as to the poverty of Madagascar in 

 wild flowers. 



1 The Rev. C. P. Cory, B.A., formerly of the Anglican Mission 

 in Madagascar. 



2 1 am indebted for the information here given about wasps 

 to an interesting paper contributed by Mr Cory to the fourteenth 

 number of The Antananarivo Annual for 1890. 



