COL. GRANT—BOTANY OF THE SPEKE AND GRANT EXPEDITION. 85 
Hab. Plantain-groves, Uganda, July, Col. Grant! Occurs also in South Tropical 
and Extratropical Africa. 
9. PAVONIA HIRSUTA, Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. 51; Mast. in Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 191.— 
Р. insignis, Fenzl іп РІ. Kotschy., et in Webb, Frag. Fl. Æthiop. 42. Suffruticosa, 
adscendens у. procumbens, hirto-tomentosa ; foliis rotundatis, cordatis, sæpius late subtrilo- 
batis, inæqualiter dentatis, supra scabrido-hirtis, subtus tomentosis; floribus axillaribus 
pedunculatis v. in racemos terminales foliiferos dispositis; bracteolis involucri circa 
12 lineari-subulatis, calycem 5-fidum subeequantibus; coccis lignosis dorso rugosis, setu- 
losis, apice breviter cornutis. 
Caulis suffrutescens ай 21—5 ped. altus, basi ramosus; ramis decumbentibus v. adscendentibus hirto- 
tomentosis. Folia rotundata v. cordiformia, 1-24 poll. longa, 1-4 poll. lata, sæpius obscure v. subtrilobata, 
lobulis latis v. rotundatis, inæqualiter dentatis, utrinque hirsuto-tomentosa v. supra scabrido-hirta ; 
petiolus fol. superiorum 1-2 poll. longus. Pedunculi 4-1 poll. longi. Bracteole involucri calyce non- 
nunquam breviores. Calyx hirtus v. hirsuto-tomentosus, 5-fidus, lobis deltoideo-ovatis, acutis. Petala flava, 
basi rubro v. purpureo maculata, calyce 3—4-plo longiora. Fructus subglobosus calyce brevior, rugosus, 
setulosus v. hispidulus, setulis recurvis, apice breviter 5-cornutus, centro depressus. Semina levia. 
Hab. Nile land, Kotschy, also Col. Grant (Masters). No specimen of Col. Grant's 
now in the collection. | ! 
Plate X. (Hibiscus) fig. 1. Involucel, calyx, and pistil; fig. 2. Fruit. 
10. PAVONIA SCHIMPERIANA, ‘Hochst. in А. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 52; Mast. in Fl. Trop. 
Afr. i. 192. ` Herbacea, perennis, erecta у. suffruticosa; foliis palmatim 5-7-fidis, lobis 
acutatis, inæqualiter dentatis; floribus axillaribus fasciculatis v. іп racemos interruptos 
егесіов terminales dispositis, breviter pedunculatis v. subsessilibus; bracteolis involueri 
10-15, linearibus, calycem campanulatum 5-fidum sepe excedentibus; coccis 3-aristatis, 
aristis retrorsum setosis. 
Caulis subsimplex v. ramis axillaribus adscendentibus, 3—4 ped. altus, glabratus, puberulus v. hirsutus. 
Folia 2-4 poll. longa atque lata, 5-7-fida, lobis deltoideis у. oblongo-lanceolatis, acutis, varie dentatis, 
glabrata v. utrinque villoso-hispida; petiolus foliorum inferiorum 1-4 poll. longus, fol. superiorum brevior. 
Flores 12-9 poll. diam. in axillis solitarii v. fasciculati, breviter pedunculati, superiores sepe in racemum 
terminalem simplicem v. compositum bracteato v. foliaceum dispositi. Epicalyx bracteolis 10-15 linearibus 
herbaceis glabratis, hirtis v. hirsutissimis, calycem subæquantibus v. excedentibus. Calyx campanulatus late 
5-fidus, lobis deltoideis acutis, trinerviis. Petala calyce 3-5-plo longiora. Carpella fructifera calycem sub- 
æquantia, apice hirsuta v. glabrata, 3-aristata v. 3-cornuta, appendiculis setis retrorsis obsitis. 
Var. foliis subtus breviter tomentoso-pubescentibus. 
Над. Karagué, Col. Grant! Also in Abyssinia and the Chiradzura Mountains, near 
lake Shirwa, Zambesia. 
The densely hirsute and glabrous forms, at first sight, look specifically distinct ; the carpellary appendices 
also of the former are shorter than in the latter. 
[Common about the cultivated plots of ground at Karagué. In flower and fruit, March.—J. A. G.] 
Plate XI. fig. 1. Involucel, calyx, and pistil ; fig. 2. Fruit. 
11. HIBISCUS PHYSALOIDES, Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. 52; Mast. іп Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 200. 
--Н. heterotrichus, E. Mey. Hb. Drége. H. adscendens, Don, Gen. Syst. i 482. H. 
variabilis, Garcke in Peters, Mossamb. Bot. 126. H. АТ: Guill. et Perr. Fl. 
Seneg. 1.53. И. cæsius, Garcke, l. с. ? 
Над. Open ground, Madi: fruit, December, Col. Grant ! 
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