16 COL. GRANT—BOTANY OF THE SPEKE AND GRANT EXPEDITION. 
M’keendwanzagamba (Kin.), Albizzia rhombifolia. Small bushy useless tree, with leaves soft as velvet 
on both surfaces. | 
M’keetchwa (Kis.), Amaranthus Blitum. Its tender shoots are eaten as а vegetable mixed with 
ground-nuts. 
M kessæ (Kin.) , not determined. Seen in the Bari country ; 12 feet circumference im trunk. 
M’kokah (Kin.), not determined. Thickets of it. Stone-fruit in dense umbels. å 
M’koko (Kig.), ? Ficus, sp. One of the bark-cloth trees of Uganda. M’koko=tree (Krapf). 
МКда (Kin.), not determined. Trunk 12 feet in circumference. Wood made into drums and quivers. 
Its young leaves are eaten as a vegetable. The m’kolola (Kis.), ? Ficus, is probably the same. , 
Мота (Kin.), Grewia mollis. Twelve feet in circumference. Wood has a black heart, is used in building ; 
no insect penetrates it; excellent for bows. Fruit small, and pleasant to the taste. M’koma 
manga=pomegranate; manga=foreign (Kirk); m’koma manga=fruit-tree (Krapf); koma= 
a fruit (Steere). 
M?komáfi, forest tree (Krapf). 
M’kdmeh (Kin.), ? pomegranate or ? Strychnos. Its bitter-tasting large fruit is eaten in dearths; its 
thorny-tipped leaf is used in cases of fever by inserting the point in cuts made in the body. 
M”kömeweh (Kis.), Abrus precatorius. The seeds are used as counters in the game of “ Bao.” Тһе 
natives boil its roots, mixed with grain, and eat them as a cure for swollen testicles ; vomiting is 
said to be a result. 
M’konazi (Kis.), Zizyphus jujuba? : kalembo (Kin.), which see; nazi=a nut or plum. Zizyphus (Kirk). 
Kunazi=a fruit (Steere). š 
M’kong’eh (Kis.). and Veekongeh (Kin.), Aloé, sp. Тһе plant from which the Waganda make their 
best ropes, namely those by which criminals are tied. i 
M’konjay (Kin.), not determined. Тһе wood of this is like our hazel, and is made into walking-sticks. 
M’kongojo=an old man’s staff (Steere). 
M'konothembo (—), Musa, sp. А large and coarse species of plantain. Thembo=elephant. 
M’koo (Kis. & Kin.), Ficus Kotschyana. Trunk 12 feet in circumference, with huge tortuous boughs. 
Old bark scales off, like that of the sycamore; young is made into bark cloths. 
M’kooa (Kin.), Hexalobus senegalensis. Wood like that of our lead-pencils. The plums, red without 
and within, are used by Central-Africans to make their gums red. 
M’kookoo (Kis.?), Ficus riparia. Saw a green pigeon busy eating its figs in October. M’kookoo= 
a fowl. 
M’kookootee (Kin.), not determined. A heavy wood, made into spear-handles and charcoal. 
M’koolookootoot’00 (Keeao) and Ceemampeea (Kin.), not determined. A bushy shrub, with excellent 
plums, the size and colour of greengages, but with the stones shaped like the eighth of a sphere. 
Seed is bitter to the taste. 
M'kooloongoo (Kin.), M’koonoongoo (Kis.), 2 4wrantiacee. The incised bark has a strong scent of 
citron. The wood is used as tooth-scrubbers, and is pleasantly sharp-tasted, inducing saliva. It 
is highly prized for building small huts, as insects cannot penetrate it. The leaves are mashed 
with water, and taken for stomach-complaints. Bark cloths are scented with the steam from its 
boiled seeds ; the powdered bark is a scarlet dye. 
M’koomba (Kis.), ? Ficus, sp. A rubber used as bird-lime; and its bark is made into cloths. Immense 
leaves. 
M’koondee, allied to Zygia or Pithecolobium. At M’bwiga, on the 1st of November, we pitched camp 
_ under this tree; its trunk measured 27 feet in circumference at four feet from the ground; and 
_ the flower was a spherical pink tassel, with two remarkably long pods, like leather straps, attached 
to the same branch. Known to one of our men, a native of Madagascar, Wood said to be use- 
less. A section of the trunk is the shape of a starfish. Leaves compound. 
