20 COL. GRANT—BOTANY OF THE SPEKE AND GRANT EXPEDITION. 
M'tåo-tåo (Kin.), Anona senegalensis. Small tree with plum-tree or silvery-grey bark, very finely 
striated ; fruit a red edible plum; wood straight, and used for the handles of hoes. M’tata= 
forest tree (Krapf). 
M’tatee (Kin.), not determined. This tree is the best for bows; the wood is cedar-colour ; fruit edible; 
grows to a great size. M’tata=forest tree (Krapf). 
M’tawa (Kis.), Ficus, sp. One of the bark-cloth trees. 
M’teendeea (Kin.), Dalbergia melanoxylon, = M’peengo (Kis.), which see. 
M’teepee-teepee (Kin.), Erythrina, sp.,=M"lallakooa (Kin.), which see. 
M’teessa (Kig.), not determined. Tree with a larger and longer stem than any palm I ever saw, the 
foliage at its top looking like an umbrella. Seen in the deep dells of Uganda, and by Speke on 
lake border. Its fruit has a stone similar to Vitex; these are strung round the ankle to give 
strength to the leg. =Meesdlo (Kin.), which see. Us ; | 
M’teloandeb’weh (—), Bryophyllum calycinum. Very herbaceous plant, growing in the shade of a huge 
tree, and grown as a medicinal plant in the Madi villages. 
M'tembeh (Kin.), Musa ensete, Bruce. Its black glossy seeds are worn as necklaces, &с. M'seegwah 
(Kis.), which see. 
M’thalassee (Kin.), Vitex, sp.=M"peendeembee (Keeao), which see. 
M’thoozeea (Kin.), Celastrus senegalensis, Shrub: ршК upon the branches and upper portion of the 
petioles; pink thorns 3 inch long. Both surfaces of the leaves have a remarkably vivid hue of 
green without gloss; if rubbed up, they smell of hay or of a Rumex. Manua assured me it had 
neither flower nor fruit. They were unknown, and for months I failed to get one; but on the 
26th December one in flower occurred: flowers white, and no thorns, except upon the main stem. 
On the shoot of the season a tender thorn appears in the leaf-axil; the following year, when the 
leaves have fallen, this thorn is woody and a fresh shoot has grown from above the thorn. Women 
use a decoction of its roots, when in suffering, about the time of childbirth. 
M’tobweh (Kis.), not determined. А coast-wood, so elastic that the ends of a bow will meet before the 
wood breaks. M’tobwe=a wood for walking-sticks (Steere). 
M’tom6ko, fruit-tree (Krapf). 
M'tondó (Kis.), Barringtonia, sp. Tts timber is imported to Zanzibar from Madagascar as planking. Fruit 
said to be sucked and the stone thrown away. M’tondoo=oil is made from the seeds (Steere). 
Tondo=oleaginous plants (Krapf), Barringtonia, sp. (Kirk) ; m’tondo=forest tree (Krapf). 
M’tondwa (Kin.), Ximenia americana,=M’toondwah (Kin.). The kernels are toasted, pounded, boiled, 
and an oil taken off, with which the natives rub their bodies. Trunk pale; branches green- 
barked ; drupes shining red, rather acrid. = M'peenjee (Kis.) , more of a shrub than a tree. 
M’tonga (Kis.), probably Brehmia spinosa, =M’wāg'eh (Kin). Bushy tree, erect trunk; bark rough, of 
a pale clay-colour ; leaves numerous, shining, deep green ; thorns black-tipped. The pulp of the 
fruit is eaten ; seeds numerous and red, flat upon one side and convex upon the other. Wood 
used in building. 
M'toogool'oo (Kis.) not determined. Tree with a trunk 30 inches in circumference. Children play with 
the balls of the fruit, which is not edible. 
M’toombatee (Kis.), Leguminose. 12 to 20 feet in girth. Leaves 7- to 9-foliate ; wood used for grain- 
mortars, pipe-bowls, &c. The fruit mashed is a cough-cure. The wood smells agreeably, and is 
of a rosewood tint. = Mininga, which see. =? Moosimbatee (Kis.). 
M’toondoo (Kin.), not determined ; ? Afzelia. Immense tree: fruit not edible. Drums, beams, and 
troughs are made of its wood, and huge band-boxes are made of its tough bark. My plants - 
were dried by having thick boards of its bark placed between the papers; they were light and 
tough, and deposited at Kew. 
M’toondoo (?), Amomum, sp. Ап underground fruit seen upon the equator. It is plantain-size, with 
