84 COL. GRANT—BOTANY ОЕ THE SPEKE AND GRANT EXPEDITION. 
Hab. Hills, Karagué, Col. Grant! Also Abyssinian and Indian. 
[Woody hardy dwarfed shrub, Karagué hills, alt. 4500 feet. Calyx greenish, corolla yellow; leaves in 
tufts; grows one foot high, rather decumbent.—J. A. G.] 
2. SIDA SPINOSA, L.; DO. Prod. i. 460; Mast. in Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 180.—5. alba and 
S. almifolia, L. Sp. РІ. 960. 
Hab. Unyoro, Col. Grant! A common tropical weed. 
[A creeper or crawler, growing in dense vegetations by the gardens of Unyoro.—J. А. G.] 
3. SIDA CORDIFOLIA, L.; DC. Prod. i. 461; Mast. in Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 181.—5. althei- 
folia, Sw.; Guill. et Perr. Fl. белес. 73. 8. africana, P. de Beauv. Fl. Owar. ii. 87. 
8. decagyna, Schum. et Thonn. 307. 
Hab. Unyoro, abundant, Col. Grant! Generally dispersed through the tropics. 
4. SIDA RHOMBIFOLIA, L.; DC. Prod. 1. 462; Mast. in Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 181.—5. riparia, 
Hochst. Pl. Schimp. Abyss. exs. 44. ostryæfolia, Webb, Fragm. Fl. Æthiop. 49. 
Hab. Unyoro plateau and Karagué, Col. Grant! Occurs throughout the tropics. 
[Found near huts at Karagué and upon the plateaux of Unyoro. Flowers white; they close with 
the sun.—J. A. G.] 
5. ABUTILON GLAUCUM, Webb in Hook. FI. Nigrit. 109; Mast. in Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 185. 
—PBSida glauca, Cav. Icon. 1.8, tab. 11. Abutilon asiaticum, Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. i. 67 
(non Linn.). Sida mutica, Delile, Fl. d'Egypte, 60. no. 45. Abutilon muticum, Webb, 
Frag. Fl Æthiop. 51. Sida pannosa, R. Br. in Salt, Abyss. App. 65, an Forst.? Abu- 
tilon pannosum, Webb, 4. c. 
Hab. Khartoum, fields, Col. Grant! Widely spread in the Old-World tropics. 
[Found about the fields of Khartoum at the junction of the Blue and White Niles.—J. A. 6.1 
6. ÅBUTILON INDICUM, Don, Gen. Syst. і. 504; Mast. in Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 186.—Sida 
indica, DC. Prod. i. 471. 8. grandiflora, Don, Gen. Syst. i. 504. 
Hab. M'bwiga, Col. Grant! Common in the tropics. 
[Woody plant, common about corn-fields at 62-79 S. lat., also at 25° S. lat. (Delagoa Bay). Flowers 
yellow.—J. A. G.] 
7. URENA LOBATA, L. ; DC. Prod. i. 441 ; Mast. Fl. Trop. Afr. 1. 187.— U. americana, L. 
U. diversifolia, Schum. et Thonn. Pl. Guin. 308. U. virgata and U. obtusata, Guill. . 
et Perr. Fl Seneg. i. 48. U. tricuspis, Cav. Diss. vi. 834. U. sinuata, L. ; DC. Prod. i. 
442. 
Hab. Unyoro, Col. Grant! Common throughout the tropics. 
[Native name “ milenda." Erect woody plant, scantily branched and 6 feet high. Тһе bark of the 
branches is coloured above and green beneath; it is very tough, and made into ropes. Stem rough; 
corolla rose-pink colour and sticky ; the petals close with the sun ; pistil-tip is divided into, say, ten cag 
parts; seed-vessels adhere to clothes by the curved hooks upon them; seeds in shape like the fifth of an 
orange, rough and of a dull brown colour. Upon the back and at the base of the midrib of each kind of 
leaf there is a gland with a slit in its centre, from which water oozes. Unyoro.—J. А. G.] 
Rå РАУОХТА MACROPHYLLA, Е. Mey.; Harv. et Sond. Fl. Cap. i. 169: Mast. in FI. 
Trop. Afr. i. 190.— Urena mollis, R. Br. in Salt, Abyss. App. 65. Р. (Lebretonia) crenata, 
оо. PL Schimp. Abyss. exs. Lebretonia acuminata, A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. 1. 53, 
