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Now, with > word of this, I, for my part, cordially agree: It is 
just "lar I meant to say, only said a great deal better. I do not propose 
to employ it as a stalking-horse, but I am glad ys use sy as a text for some 
further observations on a future occasion a of sound, beet: 
common sense.— W. T. Thiselton- Dyer, CP cse Kew 

CCXXIX.—BOTANY OF GAMBIA DELIMITATION 
COMMISSION. 
A Report on the Botanical collections made by Dr. Brown Lester, 
Medical Officer to the Gambia Delimitation Commission, was published 
in the Kew Bulletin oe October and November, 1891, p. 268 
courtesy of the aor of State for the Mr ret there has 
ourn 
the Gam m otani 
section of these Reports is reproduced in the Kew ulletin for the 
purpose of supplementing thé notes supplied by Dr. Brown Lester. 
The scientific names in brackets have been added at i A few 
of the plants mentioned under local names have not been identified, 
For the most part the plants consist of well known West African species 
with a few introduced plants and cosmopolitan weeds. 
The flora of the regions Nea differs also but slightly from that 
of Senegal, particularly in the north of Gambia. But the general aspect 
the south. In 
north of Gambia (Niom, Rip, &c.), with pe u EEcept ion of a few Fi od 
Baobabs (Adansonia digitata, L.), and Cai eet senegalensis 
Juss.), of considerable eight no great es are met with, especially i in 
orest. ide the 
J 
together by tangled lianes, often very strong, one of the commonest of 
these is the caoutchouc liane (Landolphia, sp.). Bamboo woods of often 
considerable extent cover Combo and the west of Fogni. The principal . 
mm which I have remarked are the following :— 
let — typhoideum, Rich.) the cm — of ae 
no round the villages there always exist fields of greater o 
less extent. Rice (Oryza sativa, L.) is only Aiae in Combo d 
Fogni. 
Bamboo, very abundant in the south of Gam bia, serves many 
purposes. The stems (sometimes exceeding 33 feet in height) eut 
into strips and interwoven by the natives (Mandingoes ) form the fences 
of the squares and villages; entire they are made into handles for 
