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cies grow at elevations of 5000 feet in the edge of tire 
tropics where ice forms more or less regularly. 
Mr. H. Godfrey Mundy, government agriculturist and 
botanist of Salisbury, Rhodesia, called recently. Among 
the plants discussed were the mahobohobo, Uapaca sansi- 
barica, a euphorbiaceous fruit described as a "wild lo- 
quat" with a banana flavor, and the elephant grass, 
Pennisetum purpureum, a heavily stooling perennial, always 
propagated by cuttings or root division, and considered by 
him as preferable to teosinte. Mr. Mundy reports that the 
Rhodes grass which is native of Rhodesia does not there 
make a satisfactory growth and is not used as a forage 
grass . 
