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An up-close photograph of sorghum that is a stem with no branches. Height 4.42 meters high, head 46 cm, nodes 15.

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An up-close photograph of sorghum that is a stem with no branches. Height 3.39 meters high, head 39 cm, nodes 16.

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An up-close photograph of sorghum that is a stem with no branches. Height 3.35 meters high, head 45 cm, nodes 13.

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A photograph of tall andropogon grassland & Borassus, and mountains in the distance.

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A photograph of tall andropogon grassland & Borassus, and mountains in the distance.

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A photograph showing the unusually good growth of grass and trees. This is typical of large areas north of Kimberely.

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Tall grass at side of mt., 6 ft. + high. Acacia on skyline. Plain at left. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 15, 1920]

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High mt. in center and cottage in fore center with sweet potato, manihot, corn etc. In the back acacia, m'mormes, and tall Andropogon grass. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 15, 1920]

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A photograph of tall grass and trees.

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A photograph of tall grass along a path with palms in the back.

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A photograph of tall grass and bush. This is typical of the bush savanna in Bukama and the grass is about 4 feet high.

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A photograph of tall grass and bush. There is open coarse spikelet grass, andropogon, hairy mint, combretum and trees.

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A photograph of tall imperata grass along a path with borassus palms in the back. Delporto and Shantz are standing on the path.

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A photograph of a path wth tall panicum-like grass growing along the sides of the path. There is an indigenous person walking on the path in the background.

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Tall grass in fore - cultivation and a few trees - wooded hills in back. A mango at left in back. We should be nearing Tabora. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 28, 1920]

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Sporobolus like grass - here eaten by cattle. Abundant near base of steeper slopes. In fore of photo. Hill in back with Balsamorrhiza like plant near top - also gladiolis, clematis, 2 leguminous shrubs. Blue star flower. Castilleja like mint,…

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A detail of grassland - Protea, Vernonia, Gladiolis, and grasses and sedges. The grass is rather short - much shorter than prairie - more like our Palouse grassland. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 16, 1920]

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Panorama of grassy mts. - see herbarium collection here. It shows a small patch of high forest in a cleft in the rocks or a steep ravine opposite elevation above the lake. It is seen therefore that these mts. are not very high. They are…

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The path down the mt. with plains in background, & road & camp smoke etc etc. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 15, 1920]

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High mt. in center and cottage in fore center with sweet potato, manihot, corn etc. In the back acacia, m'mormes, and tall Andropogon grass. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 15, 1920]
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