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ALABASTRA DIVERSA. — Part XIV. 

 By Spencer le M. Moore, B.Sc, F.L.S. 



New or Little --known African Gamopetalje. 



The following memoir is almost entirely devoted to some 

 notices of plants sent from two regions of tropical Africa, regions 

 in respect of the botany of which the National Herbarium has, 

 thanks to the assiduity of various correspondents, assumed of late 

 years a leading position among the great herbaria of the world. 

 One of these correspondents, Mr. Fred. Eyles, has before been 

 mentioned in these pages * in connection with plants from Southern 

 Rhodesia, especially the Matopo Hills. To the labours of the 

 other, Dr. A. G. Bagshawe, we are already indebted for the con- 

 signments on which is based the recent memoir on the botany of 

 the Anglo-German Uganda Boundary Commission,! as well as for 

 a number of specimens subsequently gathered in the Entebbe 

 district, of which specimens some were described in this Journal 

 last year. J Latterly Dr. Bagshawe has visited the south-western 

 districts of the Uganda Protectorate, and it is with the Gamopetala 

 of the collections there made that the following pages partly deal. 

 Dr. Bagshawe's chief localities and their respective altitudes (in 

 feet) above sea-level are as follows : 



In Toro. Fort Portal (5000). Durro Forest (about 3200). 

 Mpanga Forest (4000). Near Nisisi River (4500). Wimi Forest 

 (3500). Near Wimi River (about 4000). 



In Unyoro. Near Hoima (3000). Valley of the Waki River 

 2500-2800). Neighbourhood of Masinde (3000). Budongo Forest 

 (3000). Butiaba, on Lake Albert (2300-2800). Kibera, on Lake 

 Albert (2200). 



In Uganda. Valley of the Kafu River (about 3000). North of 

 Kakumiro (3500). 



In Kitakwenda. Near Mpanga River (about 4000). 



This latest exploration confirms the impression derived from 

 the Uganda memoir mentioned above, as also from the report on 

 Mr. M. T. Dawe's work prepared at Kew,§ as to the eastward ex- 

 tension of many species hitherto known only from the Upper and 

 Lower Guinea botanical provinces. At the same time the west- 

 ward range, up to the limits of the Protectorate, of a fair number 

 of eastern species has now been determined. In both these respects 

 it is anticipated that Dr. Bagshawe, whose numbers already reach 

 to over eleven hundred, will be the means of further additions to 



* Journ. Dot. 1905, pp. 44-54. See also Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. xxxvii. 

 pp. 298-330, passim. 



t Journ. Linn. Soc, Bot. xxxvii. pp. 116-227. 



J Journ. Bot. 1906, pp. 83-90, and pp. 341-2. 



§ Report on a botanical mission through the forest districts of the Uganda 

 Protectorate. Blue Book, Cd. 2904 (1906). See also Stapf in Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 Bot. xxxvii. p. 497. 



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