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very fine lily, the Gloriosa virescens, LindL, and more widely 

 distributed was the equally beautiful Crinum ammo char oides. 



Our third march led us still in a south-easterly direction 

 over uniformly ascending volcanic ground, and we crossed 

 several dried-up river channels encumbered with white quartz 

 or gneiss sand, though the bed was in volcanic rock. We 

 halted for a mid-day rest in one of these water-courses, and 



CRINUM AMMOCHAROIDES. 



got water by digging about a foot deep in the sand, which had 

 recently been saturated with rain ; below the damp layer, how- 

 ever, it was quite dry again. 



So far the ascent had been continuous, and now for the first 

 time we came in sight of the ridge of the Trr or Tarr range, at 

 the western base of which we expected to find the Basso Ebor. 

 The altitude of our camp here was 2,372 feet, so that in our 

 three days' march we had ascended some 1,092 feet above the 



