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Nyasaland. The plant, however, on examination at Kew, proved to 
belong to a different tribe of Rubiacez to Coffea. It appeared to bea 
plant hitherto unknown and was described by Mr. Hemsley in t s Kew 
Bulletin for January last (p. 18) as Cremaspora coffeot he 
genus comprises but a few species all confined to Africa and alitis 
islands. 
The Commissioner's account is subjoined :— 
On his recent journey to the Mlanje rik qe Majesty's Com- 
missioner made an interesting discovery. In valley of the little 
yungwi stream, which flows direct into the Rao poen 10 miles west 
of the confluence of the Likubula and the Ruo, and close to the place 
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Commissioner found growing a species of wild coffee apparently 
identical with that which is met with in bap interior of Mocambique, on 
the Zambesi, and at Inhambane. By a happy chance this wild coffee 
was not er in cuve but bee the ripe p^» at the same time. In 
growth the raggling, and somewhat resembled the 
original vufévatet volf ia in the cei Mission grounds. This 
wild eoffee was found growing for several hundred yards along the 
banks of the stream. The Commissioner collected a large number of 
the berries, some of which were ripe, and these will be planted in the 
gardens at Zomba. Specimens were also collected of the leaves, flowers 
and fruit for transmission to Kew for SU. 
t has generally been stated by t ommissioner himself amongst 
s that thereis no wild coffee discuti to Nyasaland, = age esd 
up to the present discovery it was believed that no specim 
wild coffee had been fonnd by anyone. The Commissioner searched 
diligently in almost all the other stream valleys that he crosse he 
Mlanje district for other specimens of the wild coffee, but was not able 
to find any. 
It is just possible that these trees found on the Sg ca siream close 
to the Portuguese border might have had their origin in seeds of the 
wild Zambezi coffee accidentally conveyed there. At the same time, 
seeing that coffee is indigenous to tropical Africa, and is found in almost 
all the warm parts of the continent which are not absolute deserts, it is 
very extraordinary that a fertile region like ne asaland should almost 
alone possess no form of indigenous coffee, The Commissioner there- 
fore desires us to publish this discovery for the information of planters 
and others who, by careful investigations, may succeed in discovering a 
wild indigenous coffee in the British Protectorate. Meantime he has 
no objection to the berries ot - wild coffee growing on the Nyungwi 
stream (which is on Crown land) being gathered by any persons who 
may like to try the experiment of planting this wild coffee, 
DXXIV.— SOUTH NYASALAND. 
The British Central African Gazette for December 15 last, gives 
under the title of Zarafi’s country, the MAS, interesting account of a 
recently opened district in South Nyasalan 
This may be defined as a triple range ot hills running in a north- 
easterly direction from the middle of Lake Chilwa to the edle gulf 
of Lake Nyasa. There is first a low range of foothills seer 
ou a miles to the north of Lake Chilwa and running nearly paralle 
