ON THE FLORA OF KENTANI 
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tree with large white flowers, dark green foliage, and fruit and stern alike 
silver grey, and there is the smaller G. Neuberia which serves as lodging 
to the delicate white flowered Angrciecum Mystacidii. 
Here and there in this forest-shelter the frail rosy-red Haemanthus 
Katherinae is found, and more frequently the resplendent Crocosmia aurea. 
Purple Streptocarpus Rexii studs the fern-covered banks, and shell-pink 
Crinum longifulium, while Luffa climbs the trees, displaying its white 
flowers in the sunshine above. 
Out of the green tangle of the woods purple Dolichos Chloryllis hangs 
from trees, the smaller D. Lablab contenting itself with shrublets. Through 
the tall valley grasses the small dark blue-flowered form of A<mpanthus 
umbellatus pushes itself. 
The handsome deep pink Brunsvigia Josephinae and Satyrium macro- 
phyllum, of exactly the same hue, affect the shorter grasses ; then come the 
numerous white heads of the tall Cephalaria attenuata, and the starry 
Alepidia amatymbica, while trees of all kinds carry the pretty but mischievous 
parasite Loranthus Dregei. 
March 
In addition to the late February flowers we now may see the delicate 
Moraea spathacea, but this so far as I know is confined to the village 
commonage, while the more robust M. spathacea var. natalensis ranges from 
the coast to Kentani Hill, and has a much longer period. 
The bright yellow Crassula vaginata is common on the veld ; Crassula 
Peglerae occurs on hill slopes, bordering flat stones with a fringe of pink- 
tinged white, and along the outskirts of woods sweet-scented Clematis 
brachiata envelops shrubs in a mantle of white, or just flings itself over the 
grass. 
April 
Pycnostachys reticulata and fragrant Mentha aquatica tinge the marshes 
lilac. Leonotis Leonurus sends out its gay vermilion spikes above the valley 
grasses, the subsocial Watsonia angusta occupies considerable patches on hill 
slopes making quite a show with its varying shades of red. 
In the woods the shrubby Plectranthus Ecklonii and more slender 
P. Peglerae are in purple masses. 
May 
Red-pink Syncolostemon densijlorus is now in full bloom on the slopes, and 
twining yellow Senecios brighten the winter woods, namely S. tamoides, 
S. quinquelobus, S. deltoideus. 
