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there by mischance, and then for some delicate kind of pen- 

 dent mistletoe ; till you are told, to your astonishment, that it 

 is an abnormal form of cactus — a family which it resembles, 

 save in its tiny flowers and fruit, no more than it resembles 

 the Ceiba-tree on which it grows ; and told, too, that, strangely 

 enough, it has been discovered in Angola — the only species of 

 the cactus tribe in the Old World." 







SILK-CO'ITON-TRKK. 



The Cotton-tree was a never- failing wonder to Kingsley, 

 who again writes of it in the same work : — 

 I "If you are all safe, your next steps probably, as you 

 struggle through the bush, between tree-trunks of every 

 possible size, will bring you face to face with huge upright 

 walls of seeming boards, whose rounded edges slope upward, 

 till, as your eye follows them, you find them enter an enormous 

 stem, perhaps round, like one of the Norman pillars of 



