66 MR, SCOTT ELLIOT ON THE BOTANICAL RESULTS 
the fifth to Calcutta, and the sixth to Paris; and I have to thank 
Mr. Carruthers for saving me much trouble and also expense 10 
forwarding some of these. A small set of Pharmaceutical speci- 
mens are now in the possession of the Pharmaceutical Society. 
OF these 1170 species the proportion of four natural orders is 
given below as contrasted with that of the Niger flora, Richard’s 
Abyssinian, Kotschy’s Nubian, and Mr. Mann’s floras, the latter 
having 237 species which occur above 5000 feet in the Cameroons. 
This Col-| Niger | Richard, | Kotschy,) Mann, 
lection. | Flora. | Abyss. | Nubia. |Cameroons. 
per cent.| per cent.| per cent.| per cent.| per cent, 
Leguminose ............ 10 14 ll 15 
Rubiaces .........0.004 11 9 2 — —_ 
Composite..............5 + 5 11 7 12 
Gramine® ............00 2 8 12 12 13 
The other largest orders in my collection are :—Euphorbiacee 
57 species, Orchids 32, Anonacew 25, Apocynaceer 21, Cyperacex 
22, Scrophulariacee 18, Scitaminee 17, Loganiacew 16, and 
Aroids 14 species respectively. 
I found in matching my specimens that those of Barter, 
Baikie, and Vogel from the Niger expedition were of the most 
use (after those from Freetown itself) ; C. Smith’s Congo plants 
seemed also for the most part almost identical; and I have also 
found many of Welwitsch’s Angola species amongst mine. There 
is a general idea that the Flora of East and West Tropical Africa 
is largely identical, but my experience in naming my specimens 
is very strongly against this*; it is very rarely indeed that I 
have found any of my species occurring along the East Coast or 
anywhere East of a line drawn from the Albert Nyanza along 
the West shore of Tanganyika to the Tropic of Capricorn; and I 
was so strongly impressed by this, that I have looked a little 
* Sir Joseph Hooker pointed out the similarity of Mann’s high altitude plants 
of the Cameroons with those of Abyssinia, and this seems to have been applied 
by others to the whole flora: ¢/, Journal Linnean Society, vols, vi. (1862) pp. 1-4 
& vii. (1864) pp. 171-181. 
