E. B. WOOSNAM — ITINEEAET. 



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nearly all the species which inhabit the east side above 6500 ft. are to be found also 

 on the west. 



Many mammals known from the east side were also identified on the west, and it will 

 probably be found, when sufficient material has been obtained, that the fauna above 

 6500 ft. is almost identical on both sides of the rans^e. This is true also of the flora in 



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DIAGEAM OP THE KTJWENZOEI EANGE (VIEWED EEOM THE SOUTh), SHOWING 

 THE SEttTTENCE OE ZONES OE VEGETATION, AND THE WAT IN WHICH THE 

 LIMITS OF THE ZONES AEE LOWER ITPON THE WEST. 



(Eeproduced by permission of the Eoyal Geographical Society.) 



general, but, from the hurried observations we were able to make, we Avere of the 

 opinion that there are several plants on the west which are not found on the east side. 

 Beginning at the base and working up the slopes of the range, we find the following 

 zones : — 



A. The Grass-Zone (from 3000 to 6500 feet). 



Except in its north-eastern quarter, where the slopes merge into the highlands of 

 Toro at an altitude of about 5000 feet, Ruwenzori rises abruptly from the plains 

 of Lakes George and Edward and the Semliki Valley, that is, from an altitude of 

 about 3000 ft. These plains, with the exception of that part of the Semliki Valley 

 where an eastward extension of the Eturi Forest becomes continuous with the Euwen- 

 zori Forest, are covered with short grass and scattered trees of euphorbia and acacia, 

 the typical " park-like " country of Central and Southern Africa. Short grass and 

 bushes characterize the slopes to a height of about 5000 feet, where the zone of 



