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A photograph of carissa bispinosa, detailing the flowers and leaves. The shrub has fragrant flowers and small fruit.

A photograph of a tall beautiful orchid, lissochilus arenarius, which grows everywhere here and produces fine large corms or tubers. The flowers are pink to lavendar or even lighter in color.

A detailed photograph of a lissochilus arenarius, showing flowers and buds.

A up-close photograph of a lissochilus arenarius, the large soil orchid.

A photograph of tall grass (Aristida or Stipa) that forms the bulk of the grass cover here. It is a beautiful grass that is 6-8 feet high but the leafy part is only 2-3 feet high.

A beautiful trumpet flower - low vine with flower deep blue, and shrub of habit of Cymphoricarpus. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 14, 1920]

Beds. The type here and at Kigoma in places - here mat like ribband, Kigoma ox hides. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 31, 1920]

Ridges or beds ready to plant in fore. Chloris gayana - mangoes at the left - huts ... also pounding corn at the left. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 28, 1920]

At sisal farm just beyond [Blue Post]. Shows Kigelia with bee hive made by natives. Sisal at the left. Beans and Combretum at the left. [Shantz travel journal, May 19, 1920]

Detail of bee hive. [Shantz travel journal, May 19, 1920]