88 COL. GRANT—BOTANY ОҒ THE 5РЕКЕ AND GRANT EXPEDITION. 
Hab. Unyoro, 2° N. lat., Col. Grant! Throughout the tropics. 
[Known by the natives as “ bameea.” Sometimes a single stem is ten feet high.—J. А. G.] 
19. GossyPIUM BARBADENSE, Linn.; DC. Prod. i. 456; Mast. in Fl. Trop. Afr. 1. 
210.—G. punctatum, Schum. et Thonn. Pl. Guin. 310. ©. vitifolium, Lam. Dict. ii. 
185. С. peruvianum, DC. Prod. l. c. 
Hab. 7° 27 8. lat., 37° 30’ Е. long., Col. Grant! Cultivated throughout the tropics. 
[A 10 to 14 feet high bush, with wide-spreading branches. In flower October at 72° S. lat.; seen at 
2? S. and at 3° N., but nowhere under the equator. The natives at 2°S. make from it a heavy, -coarse, 
black-edged sheet; and at 3° N. the people cultivate a few bushes to yield material for stringing beads 
and for making long tassels, which the females wear in front and behind their persons.—J. A. G.] 
20. ADANSONIA DIGITATA, Linn.; DC. Prod. i. 478; Mast. in Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 212. 
Hab. 7° 8. lat. and 2° N. lat, Col. Grant! No specimen preserved. Widely dis- 
tributed in Tropical Africa; occurring again in India. The Baobab or Monkey Bread- 
tree. 
[Native names “ m’pala” and “m’booyoo.” Trunk measured 54 feet in circumference. Commenced 
to branch at 8 feet from the ground. Boughs stumpy; wood useless. A pleasant drink is made by 
mashing its seeds in water. At Ugogo the people were seen collecting basketsful of seeds for this 
purpose. The seed-vessel is extensively used in draining water from wells &c. Its bark is made into 
good strong rope and into long fringes, worn like the Highland kilt. Early in October, at 77 5. lat., it 
was bare and not in leaf; on the 16th November, at 61° В. lat., at 2700 feet, it was in flower. Calyx of 
five segments (thick), green outside and white velvety within; corolla longer than calyx, is white, and 
smells strongly.  Parasitical plants were seen upon this species. Pitched camp under it at Ugogo and at 
Unyoro.—J. A. G.] 
21. ERIODENDRON ANFRACTUOSUM, DC. Prod. i. 479; Mast. in Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 214.— 
Bombax pentandrum, Linn. Sp. Pl. 959. В. guineense, Schum. et Thonn. Pl. Guin. 302. 
Нар. 7° 27 S. lat., and again 2° N. lat., Col. Grant! No specimen preserved in Col. 
Grant's collection. Тһе same species occurs both in Upper and Lower Guinea and the 
East and West Indies. 
[Native name * meesoofee.” Tree with green bark; several trunks sometimes grow from one root; 
thorns or excrescences upon the bark. In flower October at 7° 27' S. lat.; met with at 2° N. lat. 
—J. А. 6.1 
STERCULIACEÆ. 
1. STERCULIA CINEREA, A. Rich. Fl Abyss. i. 74, tab. 16; Mast. in Fl. Trop. Afr. 
i. 218. 
Hab. Madi and Bari, Col. Grant! Grows elsewhere in the Nile region and Abyssinia, 
and again in Upper Guinea. This includes the 9. tomentosa of the Appendix to Capt. 
Speke’s Journal, 627. 
[Native name “ m”loolooma.” Tree 10 feet in circumference; not in leaf, but in flower in February, 
and seed-vessels upon the tree. Calyx green outside, streaked pink inside. The seeds are imbedded in 
bristles, which stick to the fingers. Seeds have a brittle skin upon them of a blacklead-colour and a 
yellow aril ; an ice-coloured gum, drawing out to the finest thread, comes away from the seed-stalk. .The 
seeds are eaten during famines by the people; and the strips of bark from young trees are used as rype. 
Plentiful 3° to 4° N. lat., also at 59 S. lat.—J. А. G.J 
2. DoMBEYA MULTIFLORA, Planch. in Flore des Serres, vol. vi. 225, tab. 605; Mast. in 
