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lilies should not be overlooked. Amongst palms the Uganda Protectorate 

 produces a raphia, the Borassus Jiabellifer, possibly Hyphcene thebaica 

 (which is said to occur near the Nile, on the frontier of the Egyptian 

 ►Sudan, and also in part of the Rudolf region), and the Phwnix 

 spinosa (?), or wild date. Although Uganda contains so much forest of 



217. THE CONE OF A CYCAU 



West African apj^earance, I have not yet encountered the Oil palm 

 (within the limits of Uganda), though I recognised it at once in the 

 Semliki Forest within Congo Free State territory. Cycads {Encephalartos} 

 are found in the river valleys of the District of Toro. In the same 

 district the Pandanus, or screw pine, apjjears, growing in rivers that 

 run through dense forests. 



