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]
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]
A great Themeda grassland. Here a most peculiar type - short flat topped trees about 8 ft. high - big black buckthorn. Grasses sparse, poor soil, grass only about 1 1/2 ft. high. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 20, 1920]
A photograph of grassland, showing themeda forskalii, eragrostis curvula and cymbopogon marginatus. There is acacia horrida on the mountains in the background.
A photograph of the themeda grassland with a few plants of protea abyssinica. This photograph was taken on the hills opposite the government buildings.
"The World Environment: A Program For The People of Planet Earth," Eleventh Annual Grady Gammage Memorial Lecture, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, February 16, 1972