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A photograph of milicia spinosa with detail of its fruiting branches.

Detail of Themeda grassland. Rather windy. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 20, 1920]

A detail of Themeda grass flat at about 26 miles beyond Ft. Hall - the grasses become more mixed and Andropogon comes in occasionally also. Brush may cover the hill and bracken also occurs. [Shantz travel journal, May 2, 1920]

A photograph showing detail of surface soil, It is a 1 feet wide cut out area. It is full of red masses and the surface soil is a little grey.

Detail of soil bank. Surface 6 [inches] to 1 ft. darker, a little is shown in the front. .. Typical soils are not as sandy as this. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 30, 1920]

Detail of soil - Kizerawe, about 4 ft. red on top and a white soil below, weathered into ridges. Here I took a sample of the red over layer at a dept of about 2 ft. and the white soil at a depth of almost six or seven feet. These samples quite…