APPENDIX L 
DURING my stay in Chaga I made a small collection 
of plants, which I hoped might prove of some service 
to botanical science. Most of my specimens, however, came 
to grief ; but those obtained from the highest zone of vege- 
tation, and therefore, perhaps, the most valuable of them, 
were fortunately preserved, and they were sent through Dr. 
Kirk to Dr. Hooker, of the Royal Gardens, Kew. In the 
report of the Gardens for the year 1872, under the heading 
Herbarium," the plants are alluded to in the following 
terms : Among the more valuable presentations are the 
Rev. C. New's plants, collected on the Alpine zone of 
Kilima Njaro, the only hitherto visited snow-clad mountain 
in equatorial Africa, which possess remarkable interest, as 
the flora of the Alpine zone of Africa was previously wholly 
unknown. A notice of it is being prepared for immediate 
publication." At my request Dr. Hooker has kindly for- 
warded me a list of the plants, accompanied by the following 
letter : — 
'^^ yan. \^th^ 1873. 
"My dear Sir, 
'^I must thank you very much for the interesting 
collection of plants from Kilima Njaro, collected by you, 
and which we have received through Dr. Kirk. I enclose a 
rough hst of approximate determinations of their names by 
