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as are also their small fields, with a close and Se ronenen 
stockade of columnar Euphorbias. (Plate IV., fig. 7 
Despite the dryness some eight new species of flowering 
plants were collected, and if this could be done in the course 
of a three days’ visit at the end of the dry season, it is 
obvious that there must be a considerable number of plants 
on the plateau of which as yet we have no knowledge 
It is hoped therefore that others may be stimulated to collect, 
and so add to our knowledge of gh Flora of the plateau and of 
the Northern Provinces generally.* 
_ Thad the it fortune to meet several managers of the various 
Among these Mussaenda ba Poir., in Mr. Bourke’s 
garden at Naraguta, which grows wild near by, promises to be 
an ornamental plant worthy of cultivation. Equally, or even 
more beautiful, would be the new species of Ochna (see p. 241), 
which I had the good fortune to discover, Feretia canthioides, 
Hiern, Lonchocarpus seriseus, H.B.K., and many other indigenous 
native trees and shrubs of great beauty, which do not as yet 
appear to have been subjected to cultivation. 
A white-flowered Ochna, and a few other interesting native 
plants were being grown in Col. H. W. Laws’ charming garden 
at Tudun-Wada near Jos. 
Attempts have naturally been made in the Plateau gardens 
to grow apples, grapes and strawberries, etc., but unfortunately, 
owing to the unsuitable nature of the climate, no great measure 
of success has attended the care and trouble which has been 
bestowed upon them. A blackberry was growing well and fruiting 
in Mr. Bourke’s garden. 
Both on the Plateau and in Nigeria generally it was interesting 
to find how keen the desire of the majority of the officials and 
traders was to establish gardens for use and beauty around their 
homes, and in many cases they were only waiting for advice 
and instruction to enable them to realise their aspirations. 
To all such would-be gardeners the pioneer work of Dr. Moiser 
at Sokoto should give encouragement and hope 
CONCLUSION. 
My visit to the Plateau concluded my tour in Nigeria, and 
it was with great regret that I had to turn my steps homew: 
without having been able to see more of the country. Even 
* Since my return, Mr. H. V. Lely, Forest Officer at Naraguta, 
ee sent about 350 excellent dried specimens from the plateau. A few 
re already represented in my own collection (see Article XXIX.), and 
alt newt great interest and value. 
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