18 COL. GRANT—BOTANY ОЕ THE SPEKE AND GRANT EXPEDITION. 
M’papai m’weeto (Kis.), Carica papaya. Wild papaw tree. Drums and harmonicons are made of its 
wood. M’papayi=the papaw tree (Steere) ; m’papayu=fruit-tree (Krapf) ; m'somolo (Kin.). 
M’paramiss (Kis.), the Goode tree with straight, slippery, yellow trunk. M’paramuzi, a sort of tree 
said to be unclimbable (Steere) : wood made into boats and drums. 
M’peendeembee (Keeao), Vitex, sp.: m'thalassee (Kin.). Large shrub, with tamarind-tasting red plum. 
M’peeng’ee-peeng’ee (Kin.), Vitis cornifolia. Three-feet-high shrub, with very thick joints ; fruit, when 
green, is dotted with pink spots at the apex, and is pear-shaped; no thorns, no tendrils, and 
not pleasant to eat. Unknown to most of our men. 
M’peengo (Kis.), Dalbergia melanoxylon: та gembe (Ugogo); m’teendeea (Kin.). Wood hard and made 
into mallets, arrow-tips, &c. ; flowers white and sweet-scented. Mpingo (Krapf & Steere). 
M’peenjee. See M’tondwa. 
M’peera (Kis. & Kin.), an India-rubber tree. The rubber is made into playing-balls for children and also 
used as bird-hme. Ookombeis its “brother.” M’pera=Guava (Krapf, Steere, & Kirk); m’pela= 
Indian-rubber (Steere). 
M'peleköma (Kin.), not determined. Plum has four stones; leaves 4 by 3 inches, coriaceous and 
closely serrated. 
M’pembzezoo (Kis.), not determined. Slender tree used in building ; roots are а purgative. 
M’pemboo (Kis.), Sclerocarya birrea, called M’choowee (Kin.), which see. 
M’pogollo (Kin.), ? Entada abyssinica. Trunk from 30 inches to several feet (12) іп circumference : 
wood made into arrows and firewood. 
M’poo-heeoo (Kin.), Rubiacee. Trunk 30 inches in circumference; bark yellow and scaly, wood light, 
flowers white. The root burnt and powdered has the virtue of curing a swollen limb when rubbed 
into cuts made with a knife; but the patient must sit beneath the tree during the operation, 
M’poomvea (Wakeembo), Hymenodictyon, sp. Mfo (Kin.), which see. 
M’poonga (Kis.), Oryza sativa. M’punga=rice (Steere). 
M'popo m’weeto (Kis.), Dracena, sp. The wild beetul,—grows to 15 feet. M’popo=the areca palm of 
Zanzibar, &c.; m'popo m’sito=bush areca palm (Kirk) ; popo=a bat (Steere). 
M”quæt”æ-quæt"æ (Kin.), Rhamnus, sp. Shrub with berries resembling red currants: these and the leaves 
are a fish-poison ; but it is said the leaves would do no harm if they got mixed with vegetables. 
M’safwah (Kin.), Eugenia owariensis. Bark of a red-white colour and scaling ; trunk 20 to 30 inches in 
circumference ; leaves of a very yellow colour; petiole reddish, with a twist, but not enlarged 
at the inner end; fruit edible, one-stoned, walnut-size, varied in colour, tastes coolly as a 
cucumber, and much of its watery taste; flowers white, in a large mass, hang down with their 
weight, a few of the bunch only becoming developed; timber is red and cross-grained to work, 
M'sakafoo (Kin.), not determined. Thorny shrub; 3-foliate, straight-branched ; fruit not edible. M'sa- 
kafoo=the tree of roofs—perhaps timber used in roofing houses (Kirk) ; sakafu=stone roof or 
floor (Steere). 
M’saker’a. 
M'salla (Kin.), Acacia seyal. Grows to 10 feet in circumference of trunk. At 9° north lat. there 
were forests of smaller trees. Many of them had their branches rudely torn down; we imagined 
that elephants had been eating the ripe pods. The fresh gum is of a bright amber-colour ; when 
dry it is brittle and white, like old crumbs of bread. The scent from the flowers is extremely rich. 
M’sambeea (Kin.), not determined. Tree with 3-foliate leaves, leaflets 5 by 2 inches, and general 
aspect of a mango-tree. Inflorescence and fruit erect and terminal; fruit sparrow-egg-size, but 
elliptical, bright glossy red, mango-tasted without acidity. The green seed has no stone ade: 
| it, but a fibrous network easily bitten through. The fruit seems not to be eaten by birds; I 
think it may be because the large elliptical seed tastes so strongly of turpentine. Ë 
M’samvoo (Kin.), Ficus, sp. Immense tree, with air-roots from its boughs, Figs stood upon and around 
these boughs, looking as if they were mushrooms. | 
