8 COL. GRANT—BOTANY ОҒ THE 5РЕКЕ AND GRANT EXPEDITION. 
ALPHABETICAL LIST OF NATIVE NAMES FOR AFRICAN PLANTS. 
Each name has its dialect denoted thus (* Kis.” would signify Kisuahili, or coast language) :— 
Kar. implies the language of Karagweh. 
Kin. ZS % Unyamezi and Central Africa. 
Кіз. » 5 ‚ the Suahili, or coast. 
RM. ky, » Uganda. 
Keeao ,, Š Heeao. 
Ому. 8 Unyoro. 
Aråk (Egypt), m'swakee (Kis.), Salvadora persica. Bush plentiful on Nile bank at 12° N. lat. Tooth- 
brushes (m’swakee) are made of its branches. 
Bameea m’weetoh (Kis.), Hibiscus esculentus: meea=100, m’weetoh=wild, or hundred-seeded ; m'wito 
‘=the jungle or wild; bameea-ya-mwito =the wild bameea (Kirk). 
Baraz (Kis.), Cajanus indicus, DC.: barazi, balazi, or baazi=a hard pea, с. ; m’baazi=the tree (Steere), 
kind of bean (Kirk); m’basi=Krapf’s cereals and vegetables. 
Bootoo (Madi), Detarium, sp.: at.3° N. lat. This name is given to a stone-fruit tree unknown to our 
followers. Specimen of stone in seed-house, Kew. 
Booyoo (Kis.), Adansonia digitata, L.: buyu=the fruit, pl. mabuyu; m’buyu=the tree, pl. mibuyu 
- (Steere); the fruit of the m’buiu (Kirk). Its gourds and those of Lagenaria vulgaris are used 
for drawing water. 
Bozeea (Kin.), Spheranthus suaveolens? The Central Africans wash their bodies with a mash of this 
plant mixed with water to check ague. 
Cateendeer'ee (Kin.), Acacia, sp.: 3? N. lat. 
Ceemampeea (Kin.), not determined. Tree bearing excellent plums with one to four stones. Eugenia? 
Chenjha (Kis.), Chrysophyllum ? А sweet plum, the size of a greengage, but with from one to three stones. 
Kirk says this name is given to the mandarin orange; so does Steere and others. 
Cheroko (Kis.), Phaseolus Е peendeh of Uny. and Kig. А most excellent nutritious grain sown in 
ridges. 
Chongöma (Keeao), Ficus, sp. Own brother to the m’tawa fig, which see. 
Chongweh (Kis.), Aloé, sp. Grows like a pine-apple; leaves fleshy, toothed at their edges and spotted, 
smell disagreeably ; they are soaked in lime-juice and made into pickles by coast people. 
Dambazzee (Keeao), Phaseolus mungo? and koondeh (Kis.). 
Deleb (Egypt), Borassus ethiopicus. 
Doom (Egypt), Hyphene thebaica. 
Doom’o (—), Cannabis sativa. Called doom’o after it has flowered, when it intoxicates those who smoke 
its leaves. 
Embe (Kis.), the Mango: muembe=mango-tree (Krapf), mango (Kirk). Plentiful on the islands of 
Zanzibar and Pemba, but not observed on our route. 
Fenessee (—), the jack-fruit, seen only at Zanzibar: finessi la kizungu=the European jack-fruit 
(Steere); m’fenessi=bread-tree (Krapf) ; finessi ya kizungu=the Durian fruit, or the white 
: man’s jack-fruit (Kirk). 
Fiwi=beans (Krapf). 
Gartoom (Egypt), Carthamus tinctorius. The town of Khartoom, at the junction of the Blue and 
White Niles, is probably called after this plant, as we first saw it cultivated here for its oil. 
Ghaff (Muscat), Acacia albida. 
Gnongomæro (Kis.), not determined. А scrub of a tree, the fruit of which is applied, with water, to 
burns, by the Waheeao. 
