YEGETATION OF UGANDA. 545 
bamboos or wattle. The bees have been identified by Colonel 
Bingham as Apis mellifera (race Adansoni), and he informs me 
that, with the exception of the fellaheen of Egypt, no African 
people, so far as he knows, have ever domesticated bees. 
Jatropha Curcas is sometimes used for fences round Acholi 
villages, and it is usual to find a plant of Jatropha Kirkw 
growing fenced around in the corner of a village. The latter 
has a huge tuberous rootstock, into which the natives thrust 
their spears before leaving their village on a hunting-expedition. 
I failed to ascertain whether it was with a view to poison their 
spears or as an omen of good luck that this is done. 
The Acholi people live mainly on grain, scorn to wear clothes, 
and seem to be a healthy people, except in distriets where the 
guinea-worm is a pest. The chief food-products are: Hleusine 
coracana, Sesamum indicum, Phaseolus vulgaris and P. Mungo, 
Cajanus indicus, and maize. They also cultivate Ceratotheca 
sesamoides, a plant allied to the semsem, for its seeds, which aro 
used for food in a similar way. A Labiate—Hyptis spicigera— 
is also cultivated for its seeds, the food prepared from which is 
much relished by these people. 
Mani AND Bart COUNTRIES. 
The rest of my collection was made on the usual route from 
Nimule to Gondokoro, the distanee between these stations being 
about 107 miles. 
Nimule is situated on the banks of the Nile, and is a very 
unhealthy station, with a dismal, rocky aspect. The maximum 
temperature in the shade frequently stands at 100°, while the 
average minimum is 65:22. The yearly rainfall is scarcely 
40 inches, which falls on about 70 days in the year. 
Bari, as represented by Gondokoro, has an average maximum 
of 87:9? and an average minimum of 67:4^, the extremes are 100° 
and 52°. The rainfall averages 41°91 inches, falling on an 
average of 92 days in the year. "These districts are sometimes 
subject todrouglits; the hottest months are November, December, 
and January. 
The following are the interesting species collected from 
Nimule to Gondokoro:—Acacia Seyal, Adenium coétaneum, Afzelia 
africana, Anogeissus leiocarpa, Borassus flabellifer var. ethio- 
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