26 COL. GRANT—BOTANY ОЕ THE SPEKE AND GRANT EXPEDITION. 
(4. CLEMATIS, sp. Either С. Stanleyi, Hook., or С. Kirkii, Oliv. Stem егесі, woody, and covered with 
white, crooked, soft down. Leaves dark green above, whiter beneath, and covered with down. The 
white flossy awns form a ball on the erect stem.—J. А. б.) 
5. RANUNCULUS PINNATUS, Poir.; Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 9. Radicibus fibrosis; caule 
егесіо, ramoso; foliis pinnatipartitis, segmentis 3-fidis v. 3-partitis incisis pilosis; flo- 
ribus luteis, sepalis reflexis; acheniis tenuiter tuberculatis.—R. membranaceus, Fresen. 
in Mus. белек. ii. 207 (ex deser.). В. striatus, Hochst., A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 8. 
Caulis erectus, 1-3 ped. altus, rarius decumbens v. diffusus, striatus, pilis brevibus adscendentibus hirsutus 
v. glabratus. Folia radicalia et caulina inferiora longe petiolata, circumscriptione ovata, pinnati- v. bipin- 
natipartita, segmentis petiolulatis y. sessilibus ovatis v. ovato-lanceolatis acute incisis trilobatisve, piloso- 
hirsuta v. glabrata; folia caulina superiora sessilia v. subsessilia, 8- v. pinnatipartita, lobis angustioribus 
acute incisis. Pedunculi erecti, 1-3 poll. longi, teretes, adpresse hirsuti. Flores flavi. Sepala reflexa, dorso 
sepius tenuiter pilosa. Petala obovato-rotundata, obtusissima, integerrima, striata. _Achenia numerosa 
in capitulum ovoideo-globosum v. subglobosum aggregata, breviter apiculata, apiculo sæpius subuncinato, 
compressa, glabra, disco tuberculata rarius lævia, tuberculis sæpe paucis minutissimis. 
Hab. By water, Marenga M’ Khali, 6° 44’ S. lat., Col. Grant ! Widely spread in Tro- 
pical and South Africa. 
The relation of this plant to extra-African species can only be satisfactorily settled in a general review 
of the genus, which is much needed. 
[This plant was only observed at an altitude of 3193 feet above the sea-level, upon the eastern side of 
the east-coast range of mountains, by some water which was clear as erystal.—J. А. G.J 
Plate II. fig. 1. Flower; fig. 2. Petal with песїагу ; 9. Stamen; 4. Carpel from the 
flower; 5. Mature carpel. 
| ÅNONACEÆ. 
1. ANONA SENEGALENSIS, Pers.; DC. Prod. i. 86; Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 16; Deless. Іс. 
Sel. 1. $. 86.— 4. arenaria, Schum. et Thonn. Pl. Guin. 257. 
Var. LATIFOLIA, Oliv. 1. c.—Folia 6-7 poll. longa, 4-6 poll. lata. . | 
Hab. Unyoro, 2° N. lat., and Madi, 89 М. lat., Col. Grant ! Widely spread in Tropical 
Africa. Col. Grant’s specimen is exceptional in the very large size of the leaves. 
[Native name “ m’tao-tao.” Tree 10 feet high, trunk 12 inches in circumference. Bark of a silvery or 
plum-grey colour, very finely lined. Does not attain a greater size. Never found a well-blown flower. 
Common at 8° S. lat., and again at 2°-3° N. lat. Fruit a drupe, edible. The wood is straight, and 
makes good hoe-handles ; also, at Madi, benches were made from Ив wood.—J. A. G.] 
2. HEXALOBUS SENEGALENSIS, A. DC. Mém. Anon. 37 ; Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 972 
Uvaria monopetala, Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. 8, t. 9. 
Hab. Rocky heights, Madi, Dec. 1862, Col. Grant! Occurs westward in Senegambia 
and Nigritania. 
[Native name * m”kooa.” Tree-trunk 5 feet in circumference. 
and much fissured lengthwise; wood like red cedar ; branches very close, and growing flatly. Its 
fruit, а one- to two-stoned drupe, red outside and inside, is used by the Wanyamezi for making their 
gums red. Seen at 8° S. lat. and at 3? N. lat., but not between these two latitudes.—J. А. G.] 
Bark peculiar, of a faded grey colour, 
MENISPERMACE X, 
 L CHASMANTHERA DEPENDENS, Hochst, in Flora, 1844, 21; Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 41. 
Hab. Unyoro, Nov. 1862, Col. Grant ! 
