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ing large trees in the forest ; Amorphophallus, or some allied genus, 

 abounds : I have also met with a very remarkable species in shallow 

 lagoons or swampy places, having a spathe of great size, 2| feet long, 

 H feet in circumference, green-striped on purple, rising from the water 

 to the height of twelve or fourteen feet, petiole of the leaf and of the 

 spathe covered with rows of sharp spines. Orchidaceous plants are pro- 

 bably more plentiful in the higher regions ; Ansellia Africana is very 

 common, as is also a species of Galeandra, on Oil-Palms, also a large- 

 growing plant with the habit of a Renanthera, and some species of Sar- 

 canthus. Scitamineous plants are very numerous, but in forms with which 

 I am entirely unacquainted ; some Amomums, as A. Melagueta, I have 

 sent home ; A. Danielli, or a plant agreeing with the description of that 

 species, with the exception that its leaves are ovate-lanceolate, and never 

 cordate; the Pine-apple is also very plentiful in the woods, but like 

 the Orange, Plantain, and Banana, it has been planted there ; Mosses 

 and Fungi are common. But my list must terminate abruptly here, as 

 we leave to-day, if the rain ceases, for the river. I append a list of the 

 Perns which are common, all of which may. be gathered within half a 



mile of Clarence : — Asplenium 

 garis, Platycerium Stemmaria* 



Tarniop 



nana irioides, 1). vuL- 



/ *-- » '/ 'f\+t n i\ r\ *vi rt vi si o o Y"\ 



falcatum* Mertensia dichotoma, Gy 



gramme calomelanos, Angiopteris evecta (?), Acrostichum aureum, Poly- 

 stichum drepanum, Lygodium sp., Adiantum sp., Asplenium sp., Sitolo- 



Pteris sulcata, Pteris sp., Antigramme 



Ly { 



On board the small steamer < Dayspring ' our space is necessarily 

 very small. After reaching the confluence of the rivers I hope to make 

 such arrangements as will enable me to dry my plants, or at any rate 

 place my paper below during these heavy rains. 



List of Fruits and Specimens forwarded to Kew by Br. Baikie and Mr. Barter, 



from Fernando To. 



No. 1. Kigelia sp., fruit, leaves, flowers. 2. 



_ _ » « m 



of 



fruit 



lanceolate, not cordate, broad. 3. Euphorbiace* ? , fruit. 4. Spiny 

 fruit of a plant producing white flowers, growing ten feet high, of slen- 

 der habit. 5. Fruit, male and female flowers, of a forest-tree thirty 



* Growing on Oil-Palms. 



