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GARDEN NERS’ CHR 
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1 i pie A with | cannot resist 88 
with. u hard black crust as if e with soot. grown you ad this, ^V IE ny P "s we find two “Ophiogiossams hee well now as I5 
placing a portion the latter bee a mic me it | several aquatic riv er m The ques Inte da M and 
— to be a P eculiar kind of fung zoid excrescence r s rf 3 rm ust, à 80 do not r p: gute Ga us Toot, 
— cannot fi ional lb lif b miles the large- -fruited Artocarpus € D a distant r sie Mc 
atta oy it, a ee e y lines the Lac banks, md Fan Fernlike Plages hastatum, Or rather 
di g | P: common. No large timber trees Iam 
4 1 o death o : «de = en vine : ade a "by |see ; e ‘She Be ytter and similar — trees cover er both re a AN. e V ed ps t ter thin. 
^*^ espai. 
2 - 3 d el - jo nd 1 - r p hills vam plains, ha? I obtained a native species of place grew à tuberous-root od Ont: with 
which he calls the pu Wel "e ras gre eat alarm | Mangifera, the spl Erin ih gin * . nearly divide Aq mid pala new Liliaces, 
sometimes becomes erious as te » "anxious to | glo Sal ar, leaf less c ous acumina ed ; Shea Butter harvest is now over, 
— ‘the — — of fruit. un N de up E gen . up subacid, | have been light this year. Th 
- whether this : new pest has been noticed l ny of — a ai are ‘Oda Jikinge ends. This 1 a Hs. nuts 
Ca E pes : . "y oe "ek if were wi hining acuminate ge ves. I saw morn ing cg en nie children, 7] 
Ie n fungus is 15 5 n pe a — Be k and Desm., a clusters of large purple fruit e Dates ciis a mge the nuts i is s rubbed off, 5 generally 
50 X se to tree with large pinnate t was near the | it r pe Pear ; ir hrec 
dive adi ER — 1 on it giu nie è ; ias King’s residence, and I co ot procure it. Rev. | much relis 155 by Fray > pear The nut is nenten 
— — posui ative study of the neighbour- | J. Taylor pointed it na to me. Fruit of 15 og ex oe ut fo AS " n large clay ead 
in M. J. B. twiner Lees bebe? is much sought [ 3 Pus Do 1 thi besides crag du 
g apecica, 358 when ripe. It si in its 
xe) fai ol — Epping v. — oe 3 is wing ; leaves alternate, pubescent, | dive ted in the next operation, 
1857. | 1858. entire. A Rubiaceous lant grows her very d , metimes it is sli 
; i= 2 3 "HE 0.13 Ins. useful in a tery. It is pow erfally - ast ringent; the | large wooden tars instead. T 
rid =) 0.5 | 1.02 flowers are small green on fleshy ‘receptacles, nich | next thoroughly pounded with pestle and mor, 
March o - 0.21 o.8I eventually become hard fruit. ink it is allied to | ground between stones; at this stage it looks 
April .. — 1.17 725 auclea, the ‘miraculous berry’ of 8. Leone ple. black mud in paste. This i 
-— ÉU “4 Mrs 1.51 Phrynium Danie li is common about Onitsha; the water, then boiled till the butter rises white 
July .. ^d 0.98 | 2.08 triangular truit is produced from the root on short | skimmed from t e. Shea 
August | 2.22 | 1.55 peduncles, n searcely raise it above leep | at a high temperature when well 
Fence ber 12 dim | humus i in which t hese er delight. When ripe it is | not become rancid with age. It has a 
— 1.10 | 0.14 ds large, black, and iege taste, aequi ed during its preparation. Some 
December 0.06 | 1.28 enveloped in mu ane it is this which gives the people dislike it. We have used it in eoo 
| 13.74 remarkable sweet 8 taste which, re Gn ML on | have often in the boat lived on it and Y 
E the palate so long afterwards, causes everything else | inconvenience. m specimens tested 
The fall last peak ‘as RET [i seen, was exceedingly y: qud eaten V possess the same fiv A hanf. | dhai Batter is Whely to fetch 6k pt M 
[TE be, What e proper name | $° Combretum grows here in cleared. places It is Palm oil. ^d pred e in any que 
@ my very dwar butitisat f the in —— will reach 
Mer hs enclosed ? A q Fin gh by i the my reo 5 the 7 and as they spring from creeping roots, markets just in propo he 
Fire Grass, a 
for the jive d cfe Gai a 13 5 eure 
p it PM ghi do o be better known. J. Knight, Lan- 
caster. [It is Alchemilla arvensi s.] 
l 
plant. Ihavefruit of ala arger $ Sterculia with leaves; he 
lat yor are palmate, 
ook like Hemanthus multiflorus, which is a common 
t 
river is extende! 
"A m 
issionary ` ‘teacher has pS ir obse 
a , Polystachya with inconspicuous flowers ; a 
]um, 
and d banish slavery. As 
pri b an equal 
the ts of ci 
nd I cannot - 3 dui à Bassia is 
curi 
Those yielded ded but ; few iy presenting chiefly the 
ial: Ange d with fragrant flow; ors, and some assist in the sam 
Foreign Correspond: gen 2 pues. recognise. The climate rA ei 
1 EXPEDITION. un Fur oig" from: page vd 7) mon; also ao n d guineensis. Others occur on lofty | sionally ; sometimes tornadoes make us ap 
Row Mr. BARTE oe il trees, for the most p» t difficult to obtain, especially our tents’ stability. These always come 
: ipi eee Kworra, in dying visits Tike min quarter, viz., north-ea: The ri 
* Central Africa, Nue: end a 1 uly 3, 1858. s “The x „Bitter Cola,’ not E aR allied to common Cola | yesterday. The entire fall here has been o 
At the end of the ary. go n little f I|while below the confluence, even when I was 
redd mall riv here I did nob see the tree; -^ one of the chiefs produced | measured over feet, proving that the 
have explored as far «x o ascen eli in FON | nuts, and promised to secure specimens on my return. | pours down the great vol of water d 
T Nisi is very common about villages in fr I have t of my collections in 
w 
neo 
of April, aung obtained Dr. Baikie’s | 
mpany with Capt. Macki 
00 ‘nite down t 
the people gi not appear 
m re wo: iru but dt fruit of a species which 
Of a ha ndso ome Tabe ernzemon ntana I have 
bus 
we mae much in want of, 
a dep. 
and the depót of 
ng’s’ 
t 
e fed. 
distant abou uence. 
— was gi baee epe in einge of Duas agents, and 
bs. well conducted. 
i» CHA | be 
orable state—most of the pone Acostcha together 
The ia ther is eoa green- -fleshed Melon in aspect, wa 
ii pins sho t. Much could be done with Ferns her 
athered some, Pterideæ like P. 
ated ion; e cu 8 
Ln Bas Sitolobium, Nephro- 
ria, Adian ichomanes membrana 
a Web toks rem "with several Lye . Ha le 
usci, a Hepaticæ. 
“The botany of Nupe since the showers have fallen | 
becomes more interesting. I hav 
since my accident (a 
among other things 
ge seudo- 
ve not been able to | den 
oid 
id een in "- river one year to-day; 
ines feo ma months n our camp. 7 
T 
FT 
permitti y 
Je vessel ropeans ; 
have Weg of evidence tha this my 
of agi 
The 
Bletia, « puri unió E afterwards. This is an ornamental 
* but perhaps like oth b Orchid 
difficult to cultivate. 
* PSA 
A oes species is now in 
+ aioe ap E E 
l 
16 days, took up the remaining engineer and seaman, 
reached Je 
finest of all is a large Phaius-like plant with small 
vs pem high ; its root a large spongy rhizome. The 
yar Fey bs and broad leaves. The spi rise from 
AE feet, with * . of ques: 3 It likes 
ist sides of es, and is tines shad, place: 
the 
ba again after an absence of about seven 
was z. t. mM, È 1 n £1 
a 
y 69m 
vert 
less, the engi neer got better but ‘the seaman eg y: 
returned, probably produced by 
dysente Y 
the exposnre 
* During ls trip I collected about 120 species of 
plants and several new fruits. Is all suffered much 
Fr 
ce 
pan ion bad fever 2 in 
rthe-|c 
M: not cnn eulti ec Some Gloriosa qe wenn 
habit i is now in ier us dierent from 
f| t argins of sw. amps has just blossomed. — an wers 
are 2 inches in os cs resembling M. 
appearance, but not im struct 
| palmate venation. 
n ihe. wW 
the most interesting from * Onitsha,” This s place from its | 
position is s moist ; wet. and dry seasons are not marked 
er ru the river. I find this 
First comes the g 
Palms, Raphia 
ne - such plants as 
tends about 1 the Then 
—— belt which appears tot terminate RA erh 
at Idda, 1 180 ` ed b 
Ferns, 
B 
ER 
e 
miles. This is ark a di minution o 
with x 
red Pi bond Tare 8 VA oon 
herbaceous with et flow A 
iaa with yellow dienen. ps iam V s Some beau! 
s like Pinguicu etur 
on 
y under e base, 
S as Py places a pais of Nephrolepis | 
a, a harsh s rea, someti 
of t the L. ar Res 9 
amp & ground is 
a 
. tuberos: 
eopodtium 
Ab oc ota 
Sag The Cocoa Wat cannot be 
In such places I always find something new. 
ure, with fine l 
Xx az 
n to show that our 
cared for, and that we have the fullest e 
. Baikie 
“Mr. Mayi is away in the Bassa. 
| Such a; spots yield something e PERSE, and I 
