A botanist would find a rich harvest on the banks of the Leeba.

This would be his best season, for the flowers all run rapidly to seed, and then insects of every shape spring into existence to devour them.

The climbing plants display great vigor of growth, being not only thick in the trunk, but also at the very point, in the manner of quickly-growing asparagus.

The maroro or malolo now appears, and is abundant in many parts between this and Angola.

It is a small bush with a yellow fruit, and in its appearance a dwarf "anona".