116 THE BOTANY OF THE ANGLO-GERMAN 
The Botany of the Anglo-German Uganda ndary Commission. 
By E. Œ. Barek, F.L.S.; S. Moors, F.L.3.; and A. B. 
RENDLE, M.A., D.Sc., F.L.S. 
(Prates 1-4.) 
[Read 16th February, 1905.] 
THE collections which form the subject of this paper were made 
by Dr. A. G. Bagshawe, medieal officer to the recent Anglo- 
German Uganda Boundary Commission under H.M. Com- 
missioner, Lieut.-Col. Delmé-Radcliffe. Beginning at the mouth 
of the Kagera River, on the south-western boundary of the 
Uganda Protectorate, at a point where the river empties itself 
into the Victoria Nyanza on the west side, a camp was made for 
three months. The second collecting-centre, about 60 miles from 
the lake, was Mulema in South Ankole, lat. 1° S., long. 31? E., 
where there was also a camp for about three months till the 
middle of 1903. Barumba, where a few plants were collected, is 
fifteen miles further west. The next colleeting-centre was the 
district of the high hills of Ruehigga (lat. 1°-1° 10' S., long. 30°- 
30° 15' E.) from 5500-7800 ft., which drains into the Congo. 
With this exception, all the plants in the collection are from lands 
which drain into the Nile. Two visits were paid to an isolated 
hill, Irunga, alt. 7160 ft., which lies at the intersection of the 
English, German, and Congo boundaries. The River Rufüa, 
whieh drains Lake Karenge, and is in long. 30^ 6' E., and lat. 
0° 55' S., and runs S.E. to join the Kagera River, was also 
visited. The next important collecting-centre was the island of 
Buvüma, opposite the exit of the Nile from the Victoria Nyanza, 
where a stay of about three weeks was made. Buvuma is about 
the size of the county of Rutland. It is hilly, the highest point 
being 600 feet above the level of the lake ; about half the island 
is thiekly wooded. The inhabitants differ considerably from 
those of the mainland—their language is different and allied to 
that of the Basoga. Sir Harry Johnston, who recently visited 
the island, suggests that it may have been separated from the 
mainland for a sufficient period to acquire or retain peculiar 
forms of vegetation. 
The earliest collection made in the Uganda Protectorate was 
