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PLANTS FROM MT. KENYA, CHOGORIA TRACK 
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An extensive collection of plants ha* 
been built up during icvcr.il visits to 
the wetlands or the Chogoria Track 
during research into the vegetation 
history of Mi Kenya. The evidence tor 
past t lunar it change is important 10 
help our appreciation of likely 
changes in our own times, and clues 
are to In found in past lake sediment* 
which span the last hundred thousand 
years on the mountain These clues 
consist ot fossil pollen and plant 
fragment* which have to be 
identified, first by comparison with 
species grossing locally, thus the 
collections. 
Published hiogcographv of Kenya is 
mainly found in Agnew Agticw 
(199-1). known us VKW'f. This note 
(appendix! list* species collected by 
Swain .v Wooller which have not been 
recorded lor the I IK (Highlands Mr 
Kenya) area in I KW H Of course no 
lists are exhaustive, and the*c records 
concenrrate on wetland plants. .Much 
rci ent work ha* been done on rhe 
Chogoria Track forests bur woody 
plants arc not listed in ibis note 
Most ol these species are common and 
the record simply fill* in a gap. but 
L./ art her £/j tt/ranJra "as previously 
recorded only in Kitalc region and 
the spc« iment here double our Kenya 
specimens Other specie* arc seldom 
collected because water plants arc 
often ignored These include 0 rth.i 
ulvifttlta and rhr rsvo bladdcrworts. 
Utrii alarm aattra/n and / rtflrxa 
David Swain 
Stephen Maihai 
Palaeobotanv. National Museums of 
Kenya . Box 45166. Nairobi 
Andress Agnew 
Biology Invr.. I diversity ol Wales 
Aberystwyth. SY25 U)A. I K 
e-mail: qdafc' marhynllctli.lsuci .co.uk 
Reference 
Agnew. ADQ and Shirley Agnew. 
1994 Upland K W'tU H/vuin-A 
flora of iht btr bailout flnutr/a g plant* 
and firm. Second completely revised 
Edition PAM IS. Nairobi pp 1 • 
175 plates. 
The lake* under examination are 
Sacred l.akc, Nktinga. Kummku. 
Rtirundu. 
