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at Banza Noki : a kind of Capsicum or l^iixl Pepper, and 

 Tobacco, were ])otli observed to ])c generally cultivated : 

 and I Hud in the herbarium, a specimen of the Malaguetla 

 Fejjper, or one of the species of Amomum, confounded 

 under the name of A. Granmn-Paradlsi. 



^Ir. Lockliart behevcs there was also a second kind of 

 Ground Nut or Pea, which may be that mentioned by 

 ?\Icrolla, under tlie name of Incumha} and the second sort 

 perhaps noticed in Proyart's account of Loango/ which is 

 probably Gli/cine suhterranea of Linnaeus, the Voandzeia [toy 

 of M. du Petit Thenars,^ or Voandzou of Madagascar, where 

 it is generally cultivated.^ 



Of the indigenous fruits, Anona Senegalensis, Sarcoce- 

 phalus, a species of Cream fruit, and Chrysobalanus Icaco, 

 have been already mentioned, as trees common to the 

 whole line of coast. 



A species of Ximenia was also found by Professor Smith, 

 who was inclined to consider it as not different from X. 

 Americana : its fruit, which, according to his account, is 

 yellow, the size of a plum, and of an acid but not disagree- 

 able taste, is in the higher parts of the river called Gangi, 

 it may therefore probably be the Of/Jtc(jIte of Lopcz,^ by 

 whom it is compared to a yellow plum, and the tree pro- 

 ducing it said to be very generally planted. 



An Aniidesma, probably like that mentioned by Afzelius, 

 as having a fruit in size and taste resembling the currant, is 

 also in the herbarium. 



It is particularly deserving of attention, that the greater 

 part of the plants now enmBerated, as cultivated on the 

 banks of the Congo, and among them nearly the whole of 

 the most important species, have probal)ly been introduced 

 from other parts of the world, and do not originally belong 

 even to the continent of Africa. Thus it may be stated 

 with confidence that the Maize, the JNIanioc or Cassava, and 

 the Pine Apple, have been brought from America, and pro- 

 bably the Papaw, the Capsicum, and Tobacco ; while the 



' Piccardo Relaz. del Viar/. nel Her/, di Congo, ;j. 110. = P. IS. 



^ Koi\ Gen. Mndagasc. n. 17. ' Flacuurt Madapasc. pp. Hi et 118, 



i Vljdfelta, IfarliccU'a Trandat, p. IL"). 



