SMITHSONIAN EXPLORATIONS, I93O IIO, 



A two-day trip by motor car was made to the vicinity of Mount 

 Kenya (17,000 ft.), but there was not time for the ascent. Through 

 the courtesy of Government officials a trip through Uganda was ar- 

 ranged. The route was by rail to Kisumu, by steamer across Lake 

 Victoria (26,828 sq. mi.; altitude 3,700 ft.) to Entebbe, the adminis- 

 trative center for Uganda, by motor car to Kampala, the center of 

 agricultural and botanical research, by motor car to Jinja, the termi- 

 nus of the Uganda railroad, by rail back to Nairobi, with one-day 

 stops at Eldoret, Nakuru, and Naivasha in Kenya. 



On September 28 I sailed from Mombasa for London via the Red 

 Sea. Although I left the boat at Marseilles, crossed France and made 

 close connections with a fast Atlantic liner, it took nearly a month to 

 reach New York. 



The collecting (grasses only) in the Union of South Africa was 

 meager because I was there in the winter season (112 numbers col- 

 lected here). Through Southern Rhodesia the collecting was re- 

 stricted because it was the dry season, though at Victoria Falls the 

 spray from the falls gave moisture in the immediate vicinity (204 

 numbers in Southern Rhodesia, including 87 numbers at Victoria 

 Falls). At Beira on the coast the collecting was better (56 numbers). 

 The stops at Dar-es-Salaam and Zanzibar were short, but by going 

 immediately beyond the limits of the town one and one-half hours 

 were utilized for collecting at each place (Dar-es-Salaam 2J numbers, 

 Zanzibar 2 7, numbers). At Amani the collecting was good (63 num- 

 bers) and at Moshi also, except on the open ground where it was too 

 dry (41 numbers). On Kilimanjaro the grasses were of much inter- 

 est, especially in the alpine regions (89 numbers). 



In Kenya and Uganda the collecting was good though it was the 

 dry season around Nairobi. At Eldoret and Nakuru the grasses were 

 abundant and in fine condition ( the numbers were as follows : Nairobi 

 117, Kisumu 35, Entebbe 52, Kampala 22, Jinja 50, Eldoret 51, at 

 stations between Eldoret and Nakuru 35, Nakuru 42, Naivasha, in 

 a much-grazed region, 19, Mombasa in about one hour's collecting 

 40). The numbers for each locality represent for the most part differ- 

 ent species. 



So far as collecting was concerned my attention was given exclu- 

 sively to the grasses. But my interest, of course, extended to other 

 plants. The peculiar flora of the Cape region, so rich in Proteaceae, 

 was of interest to all the botanists present. The many succulent plants 



