BOTANY 32^ 



Panicum {Echinochloa) sp. 

 Pennisetum sp. 

 Eragrostris sp. 

 C keilanthes multi'jrda, 8w. 

 Osmunda regalis, L. 



This chapter may be concluded by a b'st drawn up for me by ]Mr. Wright^ 

 under the direction of Sir WiUiam Thiselton Dyer, K.C.M.G., at the Kew 

 Herbarium, of all the plants known to occur within the Uganda Protectorate : — 



LIST OF THE 



PLANTS OCCURRING IN THE UGANDA 

 PROTECTORATE, 



COMPILED, BY PERMISSION OF THE DIRECTOR, FROM MATERIALS IX THE HERBARIUM OF 

 THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, KEW, 



BY C. H. WRIGHT, A.L.S. 



In compiling this list (which must be regarded as provisional) the collection of 

 Captains Speke and Grant has been taken as a basis, to which have been added the 

 collections of more recent explorers. Speke and Grant entered the region now 

 known as the Uganda Protectorate from the south about April, 1862, and, travelling 

 round the north-western shore of Lake Victoria as far as ]\Iutesa's, struck northwards- 

 aiid eventually quitted it in February, 1863, at Gondokoro on the Nile, 5° N. An 

 enumeration of the plants collected during this expedition ajipeared as an appendix 

 to Speke's " Nile Journal," but subsequently a more detailed account, by Professor 

 D. Oliver, F.Pi.S., and others, was published in the twenty-ninth volume of " The 

 Transactions of the Linnean Society." The figures accompanying this paper have been 

 quoted in the following list (under the abbreviation T.L.S.), as well as the plant- 

 names, when differing from those now accepted. 



In 1880 a collection, chiefly from the Kingdom of Uganda, was received from 

 the Rev. C. T. "Wilson, M.A., a missionary and the first European resident in that 

 country. 



In the course of an expedition in 1890-1892, Dr. Stuhlmaini collected to the 

 north-west of I^ake Victoria and on some of the islands in that region, subsequently 

 journeying round the south and west of Lake Albert Edward, along the western 

 side of EuAvenzori, and through the Semliki Valley to the south-west of Lake Albert. 



A short time afterwards Mr. G. F. Scott-Elliot, M.A., B.Sc, entering the Pro- 

 tectorate at Man, travelled westwards, and, having rounded the southern half of 

 Euwenzori, left the region and went southwards. 



More recently Sir Harry Johnston, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., and his collectors have 

 been busy, especially throughout the southern half of the Protectorate. The result 

 of their labours has been incorporated in the following list as far as possible, but 

 many of the plants collected by them have still to be determined, notably a large 

 collection made by ]\Ir. Alexander Whyte. 



In the course of his expedition to Mount Kenya, Dr. J. W. Gregory collected a 

 few plants in the Kamasia country. 



The north-eastern part of the Protectorate remains to be explored botanically. 



In this list "Uganda" refers in the restricted sense to the Kingdom or Province 

 of Uganda. 



