COL. GRANT—BOTANY OF THE SPEKE AND GRANT EXPEDITION. 27 
Col, Grant’s specimens are without either flower or fruit, but there can be little doubt of the identifi- 
cation. The same species is found in Abyssinia and Nigritania. 
[Found climbing up the plantain trees in Uganda and Unyoro. Its leaves are remarkably thin. The 
root is large and thick, and a section of it is of a gamboge-yellow colour—J. A. G.] 
NYMPH ACE. 
1. NYMPILEA STELLATA, Willd. ; Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 52; Bot. Mag. t. 552, 1189, 2058.— 
For extended African synonymy, vide Oliver, 1. e. ; for Indian distribution and оу 
Hook. fil. & Thoms. Fl. Ind. i. 248. 
Наб. Karagué lake, 4000 ft. alt., and Nile, 2° М. lat., Col. Grant! Та rivers, EG and 
tanks throughout the Old-World tropics. | 
[Native name “ maoongee-oongee." Found in all the lakes of Central Africa. The natives occasionally 
wear the flowers of this and М. lotus as wreaths to their woolly heads, or as girdles to their waists.— 
J. А. G.] 
2. ХүмРН.ЖА LOTUS, L. ; Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 52; Bot. Mag. t. 1280, 1364, 4665 (N. 
devomensis).—N. dentata, Schum. et Thonn. РІ. Guin. 249. Тһе synonymy is given at 
length in Hook. fil. et Thoms. Fl. Ind. i. 241. 
Hab. Nile, 27 N. lat., Col. Grant! Widely distributed in the Old-World tropics. 
[This species was gathered on the Nile at 2* N. lat., where the width of the river varies from 500 to 
1000 yards. Тһе flower stands up out of the water, and is double the size of the lilac-coloured Nymphæa 
stellata. I have no doubt the species is in all the African lakes.—J. А. G.] 
URUCIFERÆ. 
1. МоккттгА PHILÆANA, DC.; Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 61; Delile, Fl. Ægypt. t. 33. 
fig. 3. 
Hab. Belama desert, Nubia, Col. Grant!  Leafless fruiting fragments only. А егей 
of the desert-regions of N. America and Arabia. 
[Spheres formed of this plant, in a withered state, were found blowing over the desert and the plain of 
Belama at 22° N. lat., April 1863.—J. А. G.] 
2. SENEBIERA NILOTICA, DC. Syst. Veg. ii. 527; Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 70.— Cotyliscus 
niloticus, Desv. Journ. Bot. iii. 164, 175.—Glabra, diffusa ; foliis radicalibus lineari-lance- 
olatis v. oblanceolatis, pinnatim partitis lobatis v. sinuatis, summis sæpe integris; siliculis 
compressis cordato-ovatis, apice integris (baud emarginatis), reticulato-rugulosis. 
Herba glabra v. subglabra. Caulis 2-3-poll. ad 1-2-ped., sepius a basi ramosus, ramis inferioribus 
elongatis prostratis v. decumbentibus teretiusculis. Folia radicalia 2-3 poll. longa, lineari- v. oblanceo- 
lata, obtusa, varie pinnatisecta v. nonnunquam sinuata v. subintegra; folia caulina breviora, oblonga, in- 
tegra v. dentata. Flores minuti, pedicellati, in racemos breves elongatosve dispositi; racemis termina- 
libus у. in ramulis brevibus axillaribus, basi заре foliiferis, pedicellis gracilibus silicula 1-4-ріо longio- 
ribus. Silicula 7 – de poll. lata, apice integra; stigma subsessile. 
Hab. Banks of Nile, 16-17% N. lat., Col. Grant! А common plant of the Nile region, 
hitherto unfigured. 
[Nowhere met with till we reached 164° N. lat., April 1868, where it is abundant on the right bank of 
the Nile and by the wells.—J. A. G.] 
Plate ІП. fig. 1. Flower; fig. 2. Ovary and torus; fig. 3. Fruit, back view ; fig. 4. The 
same, front view ; fig. 5. Fruit, transverse section ; fig. 6. Seed, with and without the testa. 
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