250 In the Heart of Africa 



2,000 kilometres from the collecting centre of our expedition 

 in the Ituri forest, is a district particularly rich in endemics, 

 i.e., species which characterise that place. I was therefore 

 all the more surprised on one of my botanical excursions to 

 come across the Bipinde flora en masse at the foot of Mount 

 Ruwenzori. It may therefore well be assumed that the forests 

 of the West African Coast and the Equatorial forest are con- 

 nected, not only geographically, but that botanically they also 

 form one homogeneous whole." 



