ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, KEW. 
BULLETIN 
OF 
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION, 
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XIV.—_THE FLORA OF NGAMILAND. 
INTRODUCTION By Masor E. J. Lucarp, D.S.O. 
The herbarium specimens, which, at great expenditure of time 
and skill, Mr. N. E. Brown has so carefully determined, were 
collected by my brother (Sir F. Lugard) and myself in 1896, and 
by my wife and myself in 1897-8, in that part of the Bechuana- 
land Protectorate which is locally known as Ngamiland. 
Mr. Brown’s list sufficiently indicates the character of the 
vegetation, but I have been asked to write a prefatory notice 
describing the physical and general characteristics of this region, 
which is seldom visited by Europeans, since it is cut off by the long 
“thirsts ” of the waterless Kalahari Desert from the civilized parts 
of South Africa. 
PuysicaL FEATURES. es 
Negamiland may be defined as the country around Lake Ngami, 
or, from a political and administrative point of view, as the country 
controlled by the Chief of the Batawana, a small western offshoot 
of the Bamangwato; the latter is by far the largest of the 
Bechuana tribes, and is ruled by the famous Chief Khama, Under 
the former definition the boundaries of N gamiland are indefinite ; 
but the Batawana country—radiating from the Chief’s capital near 
Lake N gami, and stretching into the Kalahari Desert to the south 
and east—was defined by Proclamation (No. 9 of 1899), after an 
Enquiry held by an Imperial Special Commissioner (Lt.-Col. Panzera, 
now Resident Commissioner of the Bechuanaland Protectorate), as 
ing bounded on the north and west by German Territory, on the 
east by the meridian (about Long. 24° E.) passing through a beacon 
at Makalamabele on the Botletli River, and on the South by the 21st 
: parallel of south latitude. The Batawana Native Reserve is in 
a area some 38,000 square miles. It forms the most remote province 
(12610—6a.) Wt, 35—183, 1375. 4/09. D&S, 
