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In the Heart of Africa 
tall Lobelia giberroa HemsL^ were particularly noticeable. The 
Cynoglossum family, with their cerulean flowers, which were 
vividly reminiscent of forget-me-nots (they are so called in 
Stuhlmann’s report), were very prevalent, and also yellow ever¬ 
lastings, with large and small heads, plants which are met with 
everywhere in the lower mountain region. A little farther up 
there was bamboo, amongst which the fine big sapotaceous tree of 
the Bugoie forest, the ‘ mutoie ’ (Sideroxylon Adolfi Friederici 
EngL)y was to be met with. 
“On the evening of this day we discussed the question of 
how w'e should continue the advance. The Congolese had first 
promised us as guide a white non-commissioned officer, who 
had once escorted a Belgian officer as far as the snow; then 
it was to have been a black sergeant, who had made the same 
excursion, but they had left us beautifully in the lurch. As 
a whole, the route had been sketched out for us, but as to the 
details regarding favourable division of marches, possibilities 
of encampment and of finding water, etc., we knew nothing. 
In any case, we wished to establish a fixed camp, and as we 
had descried, at no great distance, a thick, finely-grown forest, 
we decided to march thither the next morning and pitch a camp 
to serve as a centre to our collecting expeditions. The path 
first led into a deep, cleft-like valley, through which a spring 
of cystal-clear, ice-cold water flowed. Then for a time we 
had to climb up again steeply, and came upon a clearing, 
luxuriant with plants and bushes, passably level, which appeared 
to be extremely suitable for our purpose. 
“ We found ourselves now on the lower part of a long ridge¬ 
like stretch of mountain, which led up to great heights by a 
fairly regular gradient, and which Stuhlmann had also climbed. 
As it was still early in the day, Schubotz and I, in order to 
take our bearings, went up on the crest to which a very narrow 
but tolerably good path led us. Through mixed growths of 
thickly-foliaged timber and bamboo, at an altitude of about 
3,000 metres, we reached the ‘sub-alpine’ region of the ericacecBy 
which, similarly to the ‘ alpine ’ formation of the tree-like 
