534 MR. M. T. DAWE ON THE 
extremes registered at the latter station are 82? (March 11th, 
1904) and 55° (June 10th, 1904). As affecting transpiration, it 
may be interesting to mention, that the records of 1904 show 
that Entebbe has a daily average of 5 hours 55 minutes bright 
sunshine. 
This region has no very well-defined seasons. Rain falls 
throughout the year; but, as represented by Entebbe, July to 
October are usually the driest months. The average rainfall of 
the last four years at Entebbe is 55 inches, falling on an average 
on 138 days in each year, usually as sudden heavy storms, which 
rarely last more than a few hours. The highest recorded rain- 
fall for any one year (1904) is 63 inches. 
On the inlying parts of these districts the rainfall is rather 
less; but on Sesse Islands, where storms occur almost daily 
(usually in the morning), it is considerably heavier. The records 
avallable indicate that it is not much less than 100 inches per 
year. During May 1904 as many as 16:84 inches were recorded 
on the islands. 
The prominent features of the forests throughout Busiro and 
Mawakota are the large trees of the following species :— Pipta- 
denia africana, Pycnanthus | Schweinfurthii, Pseudospondias 
microcarpa, Parkia filicoidea, Chlorophora excelsa, Canarium 
Schweinfurthit, and Antiaris toxicaria. In Bunjiake, which is 
almost an island, and only connected with Mawakota by swamp, 
the predominating tree is a species of Cynometra; whilst in the 
northern part of the littoral forest of Budu the principal 
species are Piptadenia africana and Mesopsis berchemoides. 
A little further south, Xylopia Eminii, which is allied to a 
West African species X. ethiopica, gives a special character to 
the forest. Still further south, a Conifer— Podocarpus milan- 
jiana var. arborescens—is found in this littoral belt. It is very 
singular that it should occur in a low-lying swampy district, at 
an altitude of considerably less than 4000 feet—a tree which 
usually affects hill-slopes. In the extreme south of Buddu, 
Mimusops cuneifolia and Baikaea Eminii are conspicuous trees ; 
the former has previously been recorded only from Lower 
Guinea. Another interesting feature in this locality is found in 
Eugenia owariensis, which grows gregariously in the form of 
small forests isolated in the swamps. 
Raphia Monbuttorum and Phenia reclinata are common palms 
found throughout this forest-region. 
