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[This plant is eaten as а vegetable. Тһе natives apply its leaves as poultices. The leaves are heated 
and placed upon the sore, with the leaf of the castor-oil plant covering them. This application draws 
the sore.—J. А. G.] 
9. PoRTULACA QUADRIFIDA, Linn., is enumerated in Speke's Appendix as observed by 
Col. Grant; but I have seen no specimen gathered by him. 
3. TALINUM CUNEIFOLIUM, Willd.; DC. Prod. iii. 857; Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 150. 
Hab. Unyoro, Col. Grant! Grows also in Abyssinia, Senegambia, Angola, and 
Zambesia. Nearly allied to the Indian 7. indicum, W. & A. 
[Found on ground which had been cleared of forest for cultivation, growing by the root of a tree, 
Unyoro.—J. А. G.] 
TAMARISCINEÆ. 
1. TAMARIX GALLICA, №; DC. Prod. iii. 96; Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 151.— 7. indica, 
Willd.; DC. Lc. Т. senegalensis, DO. l.c. Т. nilotica, Ehrenb. in Linnea, ii. 269. 
_ Hab. Banks of the Nile, 15° to 16° N. lat., Col. Grant! Occurs through N. Africa 
westward to the Atlantic islands, round the Mediterranean and eastward to India. 
[This tree was not observed anywhere between 8° 8. lat. and 153? N. lat., but is abundant on both the 
banks of the Nile at 15° to 16° N. lat.—J. A. G.] 
ELATINEX. 
1. BERGIA SUFFRUTICOSA, Fenzl in Denkschr. Bot. Gesell. Regensburg, iii. 183; Oliv. 
Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 153.— Lancretia suffruticosa, Delile, Fl. d Egypte, Atlas, t. 25. 
Hab. By the Nile, 16° N. lat., Col. Grant! Occurs westward to Senegambia and 
through Egypt to Western India." 
[A bushy woody plant, 18 or more inches in height. Similar in its mode of branching to the yew 
tree.—J. A. 6.1 
| DiPTEROCARPEJE. 
1. ТюРНТБА ALATA, Banks in Gaertn. Fruct. iii. 32, t. 188; Guill. et Perr. Fl. белес. 
t. 24; Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 174.—L. simplex, Don, Gen. Syst. i. 814. 
Hab. Madi woods, plentiful, Col. Grant! Previously known only from West Tropical 
Africa. 
[Native name “ mee-enzerrah." Тһе handsomest tree, as regards shape, foliage, and flowering, seen 
upon our route. Trunk 6 feet in circumference ; bark ordinary grey ; chips cut from it are of a carmine- 
red colour, and it exudes a sticky colourless gum; foliage thick. Тһе largest leaves were 2 feet long 
and 6 inches across, with close parallel ribs and waving edges, similar to some seaweed. Тһе young 
leaves come to light of a dull red colour. Тһе inflorescence, at first erect, soon droops from the weight 
of the snow-white, richly perfumed flowers. During December the tree was in full flower, and the ground 
under it was white with fallen petals. In the vicinity of the parent tree there were many of its young 
trees, indicating that the seeds had wings to carry them there. Observed only at 3? 15' N. lat.: one of 
our men had seen it at 9? S. lat., and said the people there, after killing а buffalo, take its blood with 
some of their own, mix them upon the leaf of this tree and that of the m’peera (of the fig tribe). The 
mixture is put for luck into cuts made between the eyebrows and above and below the elbows.—J. A. С.) 
MALVACEX. | 
1. SIDA SOHIMPERIANA, Hochst.; A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 66; Mast. in ГІ. Trop. Afr. i. 
180.—Dictyocarpus truncatus, Wight in Madras Journ. v. (Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 2. xi. 169). 
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