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but il is probable Ihal ihe examples were collecled along the north bank, 

 which al that lime was parlly in French territory. 



1848. — Th. Wühfield. Collecled for the Earl of Derby in Sierra Leone 

 and in the inlerior. 90 plants from W. Tropical Africa in Herb. Mus. ßrit. 

 (a few of them dated 1842). 



ßefore 18t)6. — Capt. Boteler and Dr. Mackenzie Skues. Several Gambian 

 plants from both these collections in Herb. Kew. No dates or localilies 

 given : but the former probably made aboul 1846. 



1866. — W. Ingram. His Gambian plants (74 spécimens) in Herb. Kew. : 

 no localilies or numbers atlached, except one spécimen which is slated lo 

 have been collecled al Sandeng in December 1864. 



1891. — Dr. Brown Lester. The most useful sei of spécimens which 

 has been collecled in the colony. ÎI consisted of aboul 750 spécimens sent 

 to Herb. Kew.; from which duplicates were distributed lo Calcutta, Edin- 

 burgh, Berlin, and Zürich. They were numbered in two séries; Ihe first 

 consisling of Ihose collecled along the north bank, and the second, wilh 

 the sanie numbers repeated, of those collecled along the soulh bank. To 

 dislinguish these two séries similarly numbered, the lelter « N » or « S » 

 foUows the number, when the spécimen is quoted in the list. The collec- 

 tion was examined l3y Mi-. J. G. Baker, wlio published a lisl of 100 species 

 in the Kew Bulletin, 1891, pp. 268—275, in which the localilies given are 

 from the collector's nole-book (none being given on the labeis of Ihe spé- 

 cimens). Of the 100 species enumeraled in the Kew Bulletin, 27 are not 

 included in the présent contribution to Ihe Gambian Flora. They are made 

 up as follows — 4 species are cryptogams, 5 are plants cuUivaled only in 

 the Government House Garden al Bathurst, and in 18 species all Ihe loca- 

 lilies given (afler carefully coUating them on the aulhenlic map) are found 

 lo be in French territory. This leaves 73 species, which are duly incor- 

 porated in the lisl. The spelling of the names of the villages or hamlels, 

 and Ihe administrative districts in which they are siluale, are as given in 

 the Officiai Handbook, as the spelling in the Kew Bulletin list is somew- 

 hat erralic. Nor are Ihe déterminations by Mr. J. G. Baker invariabiy ac- 

 cepted ; accurate as most of Lhem are. The collection of these plants, along 

 the roule traversed by the Gambia Delimitation Commission, extended 

 over six monlhs; and is fairly représentative of the flora of a low-iying 

 well-watered country during Ihe dry season. The plants were collecled 

 chiefly in the administrative districts of Niumi, Kommbo, Baddibu, and 

 Jokadu. 



1893. — J. H. Ozanne, C. M. G., Travelling Commissioner in the 

 Colonial Service. Sent a parcel of 50 spécimens to Herb. Kew., collecled 

 along Ihe north bank of the Gambia; none of lhem soulh of the river; 

 a few economic producls for the Museum in Kew Gardons. 



There are also included and ciled in the following enumeration such 

 Gambian spécimens as are mounled and exhibiled in glass cases (chiefly 

 economic producls) in Ihe three Museums in Kew Gardons. These include, 

 in many instanc«3s, more récent spécimens llian are lo be found in the 

 Herbarium, and Ihose considered suflicienlly inleresling for exhibition. 



The earliesl record of a plant from the Colony is in Dillen's Hort. Elt- 

 ham. p. 369, t. 277, f. 358(1732); where Spermacoce globosa Schum. et 

 Thonn. is described from cuUivaled spécimens under the name of « Sper- 

 macoce verticillisglobosis». A spécimen is preservedin Dillen's herbarium 

 al Oxford. 



