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suspected its existence until one day the clouds parted 
and unveiled its niagnificient white peaks. 
Dr. Fillippi, who wrote the account of the Duke of the 
Abruzzi’s expedition to Ruwenzori (1896), explains the 
Lobelia (jihheroa. 
A lobelia ground on Ruwenzori, 7,000 feet. (From a photograph 
by Dr, A. F. R. Wollaston, Journal of the Linnean Society, 
1908, xxxviii, PI. xvii, Fig, 3. 
persistent rainy season on this mountain range by the 
fact that it rises like an island from the vast marshy 
plains of Uganda and tlie boundless forest of the Congo ; 
it is a centre of attraction for the mass of vapour 
sucked up by the tropical sun, condensing round the 
