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chain called Beldagh, and on which the plant which a 
the tea in question grows in great abundance. 
_ which takes place within the houses of the Circassian colonists 
--— aper this industry, and who appear to be pretty 
4. Théo a are qnem — of n that which yields the best quality 
takes place in May. About 5000 ocques (the ocque= 22 lbs.) 
are actually dier Mg annually, but this ve could be 
considerably augmented if there were occasion for it. 
5. When fit to yield a crop the plant has reached a shrubby state. 
to Samsoon un 
piastre, which s the price per ocque to six piastres in 
7. The consumption is almost limited to the requirements of the 
Vilayets of Sivaz (Roum) and Angora (Anatolia). Tt is to 
he town bearing the last-mentioned named that the Ed 
rt of the crop is sent. 1881 gue pens WAS se 
France, but the transaction was not a profitable one. red 
further consignments to Constantinople also do not appear to 
have been successful, 
CCCCLI.—DIAGNOSES n EN IV. 
(Continued from p. 129, 1894.) _ 
phe plan nts described below form part of a collection made By Mr. A. 
Cass arson, B.Sc., of the London Missionary Society, and presented by 
him to Kew. They are from a place called Fwambo, Hed about 50 
miles south of Lake Tanganyika, and evidently the greater part of them 
from a considerable elevation, as they are m and sub-tropical 
types. . Carson's labels afford no information on this point however, 
but as the level of the lake is given as 2670 feat above the d the 
plateau at 4000 to 5000 feet, with higher peaks, E is probable that these 
plants were from elevations of 5000 to 7000 fee 
The following extract from Mr. H. H. Jo ái nston's account of the 
country (Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, xii, 1890, 
p. 737) is interesting — 
** The ordinary route to Tanganyika, which I had now pioked- up in 
the Mambwe country, leads you up through the most beautiful gorge of 
Fwambo to and through the mountain ranges which look down on the 
south end of Tanganyika, The gorge of Fwambo is an exquisite bit of 
scenery. A beautiful stream dashes down in many cataracts and rapids 
through a deep but not very narrow gorge between precipitous mountain 
sides, and this gorge is filled with magnificent forest of a truly West 
African character, an ideal tropical forest with its immense umbrageous 
‘on ~ grace ful oil-palms, its parasitic orchids, and trailing swinging 
140. Oxalis iino phylla, Baker [| Geraniaces] ; acaulis, annua, foliis 
omnibus radicalibus trifoliolatis longe petiolatis, foliolis oblongis obtusis 
