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ng [no good] Adansonia with large beehives hanging up in the tree, ant hill at right. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 12, 1920]

Adansonia with large beehives hanging up in the tree, ant hill at right. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 12, 1920]

Detail showing beehive made of a hollow log plugged at the end - hanging from a very large Adansonia. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 12, 1920]

A fleshy vine with grape like leaves (a Euphorbia), a slender Euphorbia and a spiny tree with trifoliate leaf. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 12, 1920]

Sansevieria very tall in fore - a small leaf orange fruited shrub in fore, cucurbits etc. in back. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 12, 1920]

General [view] through a rather open stretch of thorn forest, grass in fore, Sansevieria - Euphorbia grape like vine - looks very much like Kenkelbosch. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 12, 1920]

Hibiscus - large flower (3 1/2 inch), yellow with deep red center. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 12, 1920]

The experiment plots, Eucalyptus and Casuarina - Euphorbia in back. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 14, 1920]

A beautiful trumpet flower - low vine with flower deep blue, and shrub of habit of Cymphoricarpus. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 14, 1920]

Experiment plots - Casuarina - neglected and fire has run through. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 14, 1920]

Grass & Euphorbia candelabra and brush in back. This is a fairly representative photo of this section which is adjacent on the upper side to the region of high rainfall and on the lower to drought plus fire. There are immense numbers of plants with…

Roadway with Combretum on right - Candelabra Euphorbia in the back. This is open forest type. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 14, 1920]

Looking over the river bed. Acacia like trees, Euphorbia candelabra like - and Manihot glaziovii on sky line. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 14, 1920]

River vegetation, tall tree in the fore. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 14, 1920]

Looking up the river. Boulders and grass in river. Euphorbia, trees and vines in the back. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 14, 1920]

Looking down the river - vines at the right. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 14, 1920]

Down the river, under the trees. Shows character of bank and of vegetation. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 14, 1920]

Opposite bank with river in the fore. Mosses and liverworts, also trees and vines. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 14, 1920]

Shows a soil bank cut away and exposing the roots of Manihot glaziovii and Cassia. See Kalemuengo in back to show depth. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 15, 1920]

Soil uniform, no hard pan - to 10 ft. Manihot roots with enlargements, cassia without. A large tuber of one of the vines shows at the left. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 11, 1920]