There are several other examples of a similar nature.
Shrubs, well known as such in the south, assume the rank of trees as we go to the north; and the change is quite gradual as our latitude decreases, the gradations being herbaceous plants, shrubs, bushes, small, then large trees.

But it is questionable if, in the cases of mamosho, mobola, and mawa, the tree and shrub are identical, though the fruits so closely resemble each other; for I found both the dwarf and tree in the same latitude.

There is also a difference in the leaves, and they bear at different seasons.
The banks of the river were at this time appearing to greater advantage than before.

Many trees were putting on their fresh green leaves, though they had got no rain, their lighter green contrasting beautifully with the dark motsouri, or moyela, now covered with pink plums as large as cherries.

The rapids, having comparatively little water in them, rendered our passage difficult.