14 COL. GRANT—BOTANY OF THE 5РЕКЕ AND GRANT EXPEDITION. 
M”cæwæ (Keeao), Crotalaria glauca. The people of Madi eat all of it but the root as а vegetable. Vide 
Meetwai for a tree of this name. 
M’ceekeezzee (Kin.), Acacia, near seyal. Its inner bark is made into rope. 
M’ceembee (Kin.), not determined. The natives scrub their teeth with its branches. 
M’ceenambassa (Kin.), not determined. | 
M'eeenango (Kin.), Harrisonia abyssinica. А shrub with very tender leaves and arched branches; its 
thorns cateh one”s clothes. 
M’ceengeer’a (Kin.), Flacourtia ?, sp. Low tree, with straight thorns and soft dull green alternate leaves. 
M’ceenzee (Kis.), probably the mangrove, Rhizophora mangle. Used as а tan; wood makes the best 
ribs for boats, bed-frames, &c. ` Good but not a heating fire-wood. Mangrove = mkoko (Steere). 
M'eheng'a (—), Brachystegia spiceformis. Tree with light graceful foliage, covering the Unyamezi 
forests. Bark is made into round boxes and cases for grain. Its fibre is useful as tinder, and 
for making kilts. * Chenga > of Livingstone. 
M’cherze (Kis.), Ficus, sp. One of the bark-cloth tribe. M’chele = rice. | 
M'eherengeh (Kis. & Kar.), not determined. Тһе milk-pots of Karagweh are made of its dark hard wood. 
M'ehongomah (Kis.), Acacia, sp. Lofty tree, with remarkably small leaves. Тһе roots are said to have 
a pleasant odour 100 yards off. 
M”chöönchoo (Kin.), Balanites egyptiaca. Trunk six feet in circumference, rather weeping branches ; 
bark black, closely and longitudinally striated. The natives of Madi eat its bitter plum, and 
extract oil from it to anoint themselves. Choongoo= bitter. = 
M’choowee (Kin.), Sclerocarya birrea, Hochst. In December, found a tree, of ten feet circumference of 
trunk, in fruit. Bark grey, cut red and sticky ; wood said to be red: fruit, when green, is small, 
lime-size ; sarcocarp apple-scented and fleshy, on being cut it flows with tasteless but sticky water, 
which bites a sore; contains one large stone, with one or two kernels; these are milky, and 
eaten like the Arachis hypogea ground-nut. Grain-pestles and stools are made of its wood. 
Probably the m’soowee (Kin.) is the same, though this has sweet-briar-scented leaves. 
M’deem (Kis.), Citrus aurantium : m’dimu=lime-tree (Krapf). Cultivated by the Arabs at Kazeh. 
M’dellasini=cinnamon-tree (Krapf). 
M'djeye, tree (Krapf). 
M'doogootée (Kin.). Its wood is made into arrows. 
M'dshani, tree (Krapf). 
M'dshe, tree (Krapf). 
M’fo (Kin.), Hymenodictyon, sp. А useless shrub, with clusters of dull purple seed-vessels of the size 
and shape of olives. M”poomvea (Wakeembo). 
M'foof'oo (Kin.), Terminalia, sp. allied to T. macroptera. А fine large handsome tree. Тһе wood 
under the bark is of a lemon-yellow colour, and watery; it is used by the natives for tinting their 
bark-cloths. The seed is as sweet as an almond. 
M’foolo, or M’foo (Kin, Vitex, sp. Uncertain in its fruiting. In flower August, in fruit June. 
Its fruit obtained twice to four times in one year. А handsome umbrageous tree. Vitex, sp. 
(Kirk). Fuu=a fruit (Steere). 
M’fooloongoo, or m’foolongoh (Kis.), ? Strychnos. Ап orange-bush-like shrub, covered with monster-like 
oranges, full of pulp; when ripe their outside is hard, like the rind of cheese; not edible. The 
leaves are single, and their tips are as sharp as needles. 
M’foomah (Kis.), not determined. Small forest tree, with compound leaves; flowers in ronnd heads, 
not developed in September. 
M’foombweh, or M'foombwa, or M’foombeh (Kin.), Carissa, sp. Its fruit is eaten. The bark of the 
~ roots smells disagreeably, and is taken as a remedy for cough ; or it is made into a powder, mixed 
with oil, rubbed in the body to bring on perspiration in fever. It has no taste. M’foombeh, a 
two-feet-high plant, is used by Watusi to dye their gums blue or black. 
