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Edge of forest along the road. [Shantz travel journal, May 15, 1920]

Tall ribbed trees - look really like desert shrub overgrown - these may suffer drought - I see no other way in which these could develop as they do. [Shantz travel journal, May 15, 1920]

Forest and forest floor - a stump in the fore. [Shantz travel journal, May 15, 1920]

High forest of olive like trees. [Shantz travel journal, May 15, 1920]

A beautiful shrub - white bell like flowers and a fiber like plant of mallow family. Thespesia. White cluster. [Shantz travel journal, May 15, 1920]

A beautiful shrub - white bell like flowers and a fiber like plant of mallow family. Thespesia. Seed collected from several different plants. [Shantz travel journal, May 15, 1920]

A beautiful shrub - white bell like flowers and a fiber like plant of mallow family. Thespesia. Seed collected from several different plants. [Shantz travel journal, May 15, 1920]

Path in high forest, grasses of forest floor and dense undergrowth. The forest is quite dense and there are at least three grasses which grow well on the floor. These should be collected later as they are not ripe now. [Shantz travel journal, May…

Forest of ribbed stem - olive like foliage, many small evergreen bushes and a lot of undergrowth. Went to forest near Nairobi and took a few photos in P.M. [Shantz travel journal, May 15, 1920]

Forest of ribbed stem - olive like foliage, many small evergreen bushes and a lot of undergrowth. Went to forest near Nairobi and took a few photos in P.M. [Shantz travel journal, May 15, 1920]

Shows Themeda grassland and big spiny acacias. The ants live in the bases of these spines and not all spines have the swollen base. [Shantz travel journal, May 15, 1920]

Grass and road. Grass - Combretum and hills at left. [Shantz travel journal, May 8-11, 1920]

Nearer Ft. Hall. Grassland - ant hills and trees in back, fairly typical of much of this country. Themeda and forked Andropogon chief grasses. [Shantz travel journal, May 8-11, 1920]

Road, Themeda, Combretum - orchard steppe. These photos taken a short distance this side of Embu. [Shantz travel journal, May 8-11, 1920]

Soil bank - dark red brown - Combretum, Themeda etc. [Shantz travel journal, May 8-11, 1920]

Combretum, Cymbopogon and Themeda and forked Andropogon. [Shantz travel journal, May 8-11, 1920]

Orchard steppe, Combretum and Cymbopogon grassland, side hill in back. [Shantz travel journal, May 8-11, 1920]

Orchard steppe, Combretum and Cymbopogon grassland, road in fore. [Shantz travel journal, May 8-11, 1920]

A general view at same place (14 miles west of Ft. Hall). Large white worthless fig and Andropogon grassland, sugar cane shows in back. [Shantz travel journal, May 8-11, 1920]

The aloe which grows in the grassland of this region, pretty red or light brick colored flowers. [Shantz travel journal, May 8-11, 1920]