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covered with acacia woodland. In certain central localities 
there is a striking absence of shrubs of any description; so 
scarce are they in some places where I camped, that cooking had 
to be done with dried stems of papyrus, found in swamps and 
streams. 
The shrubs found in Koki are also common in the shrub-land 
of Ankole. At the higher elevation on the hills of West Ankole 
the following interesting specimens are found: Lobelia Giberroa, 
Gnidia lamprantha, Phillipia Stuhlmannii, Agauria salicifolia, 
Acacia Gerrardi, Schizoglossum eximium, Asclepias glaucophylla 
and A. macrantha; also Faurea saligna, a small tree common in 
the Transvaal. 
The western part of Ankole is densely wooded, and forest 
covers a large area east of Lake Albert Edward. I did not 
spend sufficient time in this forest to gain much idea of what it 
contained, but collected the following trees: Paerinarium excel- 
sum, Symphonia globulifera, Zanthoxylum sp., a Strombosia, and 
four new species—Carapa grandiflora, Pseudocedrela | excelsa, 
Mimusops Dawei, and Gabunia odoratissima. Both the Pseudo- 
cedrela and Carapa are valuable timber trees: the latter also 
affords an oil. 
North of this forest, beyond the plateau which terminates in 
an escarpment about ten miles from Lake Kufuru, wocdlands 
formed of flat-topped acacias, alternating with bushland of 
Euphorbia antiquorum and Capparis tomentosa, stretch down to 
the shores of the lake. Forest is absent from the shores of Lake 
Kufuru, on both sides being a stretch of arid land. 
In the extreme north-west of Ankole the laud is densely 
wooded, chiefly with Albizzia Brownei and Albizzia coriaria. A 
small forest is found in the Bwezu district; and conspicuous 
among the trees found there are: Phaniv reclinata, Cordia 
abyssinica, Cola cordifolia, Neoboutonia canescens, Pseudospondias 
mierocarpa, and a new species of Pteryyota—a handsome tree 
belonging to Sterculiacee. 
The mean maximum temperature of Ankole, as r: presented by 
Mbarara (1904), which 1s the administrative station, 1s 778^, the 
mean minimum 55°6°, the extreme minimum (12th November) 
being 457. This may be taken as representative of the greater 
portion of the plateau of Ankole, which lies at about 5000 feet. 
In the forest-region of West Ankole the minimum was 53° 
