Photo by Vittorio Sella 



A GRACEFUL LOBELIA WOLLASTONU IN BLOOM, RUWENZORI MOUNTAINS, AFRICA 

 This is one of the rarest of the two hundred species of lobeHa found in all the temperate and warmer 

 regions of thrworld, except Central and Eastern Europe and Western Asia, It is known as. the tree 

 lobeUa and thrives only on the slopes of the high mountains of tropical Africa. t is a cousin of the 

 " In& tXcco " of North America, whose chief constituent, lobelme, closely resembles nicotine. 



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