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BRITISH CENTRAL AFRICA 
Then there are the numerous Coreopses (relations of the Sunflower)—golden- 
yellow, creamy-white, and blood - red ; pinkish-white anemones; purple iris 
( Aristea ); rosy-tinted, salmon-tinted, 
apricot - tinted gladioli, or even a 
gladiolus with huge blossoms of a pale 
buff colour like cafe-au-lait. There is 
a great range in the colour of these 
gladioli. One has a flower of purplish- 
green. The Hypericum shrub, like the 
St. John’s wort in England, has large 
pale yellow blossoms. In the stream 
valleys there are balsams of pink- 
mauve ; by the water side at the 
greatest altitudes is the blue Cyno- 
glossum, and there are silver and gold 
Helichrysums. And yet I have only 
signalised by name a twentieth part of 
the flowering plants of these high 
a raphia palm mountains in Central Africa. 
and that the outer whorl is covered with black emergences. He likes the perianth cup to be short and 
fleshy and prefers the anthers to be sessile. Not a single exclamation of praise or prayer at the flower 
displayed. Of course he is right : science must be unemotional. A good diawing of this Vellozia is 
given in the T'ran sact ions of the Linncean Society for May, 1894. 
OIL PALMS, NEAR THE SONGWE RIVER, NORTH NYASA 
