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adong. Flowers pale green, leaves light green, climber with 
f large tubers. 
Dioscorea hirsuta, Bl. (D. dæmona, Вохб. var. reticulata, Hook. f. 
MSS. in Herb. Ke 
Leschonault mentions (An n. d. Mus. d'hist. nat. xvi. 469) the use 
of the root of Dioscorea triphylla (D. hirsuta, ВІ.) as one of the 
бирһен vea "is Ipo, prepared by one of the Orang-daias from 
with дрон “ote, 729, Bangaramassing, Borneo), as 
follows :—Dry hills, woods, &с., common. [alay Gadung ; 
flowers green; the roots are eaten, but жад an elaborate 
preparation being very poisonous in a fresh state 
Dr. Stapf notes that in 1880 the Conde de Ficalho (Flora dos Lusiados) 
рат MM two of the plants mentioned in Camoens's poem to Antiaris 
and Strychnos Tiéuté. This would involve a very early 
ssi of the їо plants. 
CCXX.— BOTANY OF GAMBIA DELIMITATION 
COMMISSION. 
arrangement, signed at Paris, August 10th, 1889, concerning 
the delimitation of the English and French Possessions on the West 
Coast of Africa, the frontier ‘line between Senegambia and the Colony : of 
the Gambia was established. 
he Commission for marking out the — left England at the 
end of 1890, and was absent about six months. 
The Colonial Office was unable to Es any arrangement for attaching 
a botanist to the expedition, but suggested that Kew might find a 
medica i ye dien Dairy With the aid of 
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a useful picture of the ей апа productions of the country 
traversed, 
. Clematis Thunbergii, Steud. — Creeping plant. Bakindie Kotu, north 
bank. At Bakindie Kotu the ground rises to about 50 feet above sea- 
level. Kous (African millet) and rice are cultivated in patches around 
d seen of 
Duos < senegalensis) are S ест Am tree — at Jinnak. 
verything dry and parched except at one or idera swamps. A sma 
шн of pol Peet are cultivated. Many ‘locust im ” аге to be 
d "allé, on goap Creek, north bank. Soil dry and sandy, flat 
os ша не swampy near the creek. Seen иы Country at t Ballé is 
