APPENDICES 



APPENDIX A 



NOTES ON THE ZONES OF VEGETATION IN 

 RUWENZORI 



[I am indebted to Dr. A. B. Rendle, of the Natural History 

 Museum, for permission to take these notes from his paper on the 

 plants collected in Ruwenzori by the British Museum Expedition. 

 The plants were examined, and the new species named and de- 

 scribed by Dr. Rendle, in conjunction with Messrs. E. G. Baker and 

 S. Le M. Moore, also of the Natural History Museum. The paper 

 was published in the Journal of the Linnaan Society (Botany), 

 vol. xxxviii., January, 1908.] 



The first botanical collection of any extent made on the 

 Ruwenzori range was that of Dr. Stuhlmann in 1891. 

 He ascended the valley of the Butagu on the west of 

 the chain to a height of 13,326 feet. Mr. G. F. Scott 

 Elliot, in 1895, made five excursions towards the 

 central ridge, approaching it on the east by the valleys 

 of Yeria, Wimi, Mubuku, and Nyamwamba, and on 

 the west from the Butagu Valley. In the last he 

 reached 13,000 feet. Later, Sir H. Johnston reached a 

 height of about 15,000 feet on the east slopes of the 

 peak, which he named Kiyanja. On this expedition 

 some plants were collected by Mr. Doggett and pre- 

 sented to the Royal Gardens, Kew. Collections have 

 also been made recently by Dr. Roccati, who accom- 

 panied the Duke of the Abruzzi in 1906, and by Mr. 

 Dawe, of the Botanic Gardens at Entebbe, 



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