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lilies should not he overlooked. Amongst palms the Uganda Protectorate 

 produces a raphia, the Borassus Jiabellifer, possibly Hyphcene thehaica 

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

 Sudan, and also in part of the Ixudolf region), and the Phcenix 

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





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West African appearance, 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, appears, growing in rivers that 

 run through dense forests. 



