206 WAYFARING NOTES IN RHODESIA. 
Holothrix, of which a description by Dr. Rendle is appended to 
ese notes. The flowers of the bulbous plants are most plentiful 
later in the season 
mongst trees a Dombeya is striking, recalling a cherry-tree in 
blossom at distant view. Frythrina also claims notice. It is usual 
to find it about the sites of old native kraals. In youth its stem and 
branches are very spiny, but these are worn down in mature growth 
and in age; in this regard, perhaps, political peor are not 
wanting. 
My journeyings around Salisbury were mostly upon foot; the 
distant ones were made upon the Vie usually to lower levels, 
“gins - valleys of the Hanyani and Mazoe rivers. After descending 
or sO, one sees meine of 20 fh. in height. With a little 
imi one can cycle over the Kaffir footpaths. Two very light 
oards of three-ply veneer made a little larger than the sheets of 
be collected. 
It is quite remarkable how many plants, belouging to widely 
different natural orders, come into blossom before the leaves appear. 
A few like Aptosimum and Blepharis uOne: tap! the whole year 
through, but in general there is a hastening to get the work of 
flowering and fruiting over. A plant that is quite plentiful may 
thus be easily missed, so far as the collection of satisfactory atcnall 
material is concerned. e terrestrial Orchids are naan: in point. 
I am inclined to think that some of these rest over a se 
Calm days are rarities in Rhodesia. Yet, paki as sit is, few 
pests appear to be fitted for fertilization by the wind. As regards 
and seeds it is gaat ten a very large proportion of them being 
Ai d for dispersal by the wind. Wind-pressure is so constant a 
factor that one would oleae it must influence the plant-structure 
of the country to some extent. Euphorbia abyssinica, which grows 
leaf is very often met with in Rhodesia. 
Frequent mention has been made of the fires which ravage ihe 
veldt. The gourd family are well protected, for the merely super- 
ficial roasting that the gourds get does no damage to seeds 
within. Again, the yellow, tough-rinded, ball-like fruit of Solanum 
does not suffer ; indeed, it becomes the more conspicuous agains 
the charred background of the pining wa i 
The ripe legumes of Brachystegia are borne in rather a curious 
and ager I Ky way, being held aloft ote above the bene! 
contour of the tree’s leaf-outline. The tree was just coming 
