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In the Heart of Africa 
2,000 kilometres from the collecting centre of our expedition 
in the Ituri forest, is a district particularly rich in endemics, 
i.e.y species which characterise that place. I was therefore 
all the more surprised on one of my botanical excursions to 
come across the Bipinde flora en masse at the foot of Mount 
Ruwenzori. It may therefore well be assumed that the forests 
of the West African Coast and the Equatorial forest are con¬ 
nected, not only geographically, but that botanically they also 
form one homogeneous whole.” 
