. British Central Africa; an attempt to give some account of a portion of the territories under British influence north of the Zambezi. Natural history. OIL PALMS, NEAR THE SONGWE RIVER, NORTH NYASA Then there are the numerous Coreopses (relations of the Sunflower)—golden- yellow, creamy-white, and blood - red ; pinkish-white anemones; purple iris (Aristed); rosy-tinted, salmon-tinted, apricot - tinted gladioli, or even a gladiolus with huge blossoms of a pale buff colour like cafd-au-lait. There is a great range in the colour of these gladioli. One has a flower of purplish- green. The Hyperic
. British Central Africa; an attempt to give some account of a portion of the territories under British influence north of the Zambezi. Natural history. OIL PALMS, NEAR THE SONGWE RIVER, NORTH NYASA Then there are the numerous Coreopses (relations of the Sunflower)—golden- yellow, creamy-white, and blood - red ; pinkish-white anemones; purple iris (Aristed); rosy-tinted, salmon-tinted, apricot - tinted gladioli, or even a gladiolus with huge blossoms of a pale buff colour like cafd-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 mountains in Central Africa. and that the outer whorl is covered with black emergences. He likes the perianth cup to be shorl and fleshy and prefers the anthers to lie sessile. Not a single exclamation of praise or prayer at the flower displayed <'I course he is right: science must he unemotional. A good drawing of this Vtllozia is given in the Transactions of the J,inn,ran Society for May, A KAI'IIIA I' Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Johnston, Harry Hamilton, Sir, 1858-1927. New York, Edward Arnold
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