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42 COL. GRANT—BOTANY OF THE SPEKE AND GRANT EXPEDITION: 
9. FAGONIA ORETICA, Linn.; DC. Prod. і. 704; Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 287 (where ex- 
tended synonymy and abstract of principal varieties are given), 
Hab. Shingle desert behind Berber, 175° N. lat., Col. Grant! Widely distributed in 
the dry regions of Northern and Southern Africa, Asia, and in Western America. 
In Col. Grant’s specimens the extremities and 1(-3?)-foliate oval-oblong mucronate leaves are granular- 
scabrid, and the spines slender, divergent, exceeding the leaves. 
[Flowers of a rose-pink colour in April at 173? N. lat.—J. A. 6.) 
GERANIACEÆ. 
1. OXALIS CORNICULATA, Linn.; DC. Prod.i. 692; Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. 296.—0. radi- 
° сова, A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 123. у | 
_ Hab. Common near cultivation, Usui, Col. Grant! А weed of cultivation nearly 
everywhere in warm countries. 
О. procumbens, Steud., A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 123, which, in the Fl. Trop. Afr. 1. c., I reduced аз a small- 
leaved form of O. corniculata, should certainly have been maintained specifically distinct, as indicated by 
А. Rich. 1. с. 
2. OXALIS (Š ВтоРНүт ом) SENSITIVA, Linn.; DC. Prod. i. 690; Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr.. 
i. 297.— Biophytum Petersianwm, Klotzsch in Peters, Mossamb. Bot. 81, tab. 15. 
Hab. 5° 5 8. lat., alt. 8900 ft., and Unyoro, Col. Grant! Widely spread both іп Tro- 
pical Africa and Asia. 
[Sensitive-leaved weed, 4 to 10 inches high, growing in light soil. Stem of a purple-red colour. Flowers, 
bright yellow, in March at 57 S. lat.—J. А. G.] 
RUTACEZÆ (АЛЕАХТТЕ Ж). 
. 1. OrrRUS AURANTIUM, L. Cultivated by the Arabs at Unyanyembé, 5° S. lat., 
Col. Grant ! 
[Native name * m'dimoo." One planted by an Arab at Kazeh was in fruit in February; it had only 
been planted two years.—J. А. G.] | 
SIMARUBEÆ. 
1. HARRISONIA ABYSSINICA, Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. 1.811. Frutex, ramulis pubescentibus ; 
foliolis 3—4-jugis, ovalibus v. obovato-ellipticis, remote crenato-denticulatis ; petiolo a 
muni subtus pilosulo; spinulis stipularibus brevibus recurvis; eymis paucifloris; ovario 
5-lobato. | 
Frutez. Катић teretes, crassitie pennæ gallinaceæ, lenticellati, novelli pubescentes v. puberuli. Folia 
alterna, imparipinnata, 2-3-pollicaria; petiolo communi articulato inter foliolorum paria alato, subtus 
pubescente ; foliolis ellipticis v. obovato-ellipticis, obtusis, remotiuscule crenato-dentatis баргаш у 
subtus іп nervo medio pubescentibus, sessilibus, 3-4 poll. longis. Spine stipulares, e basi tia 
breves, recurve. Flores in eymas corymbosas ramulos terminantes v. interdum in рейстің racemosas ee 
fluentes dispositi, 4-4 poll. diam. ; pedunculo puberulo, pedicello 4-4 poll. longo ; bracteolis vind. 
Calyx parvus, 5-partitus ; lobis ovatis, obtusis, extus pubescentibus. Petala 5 siligtins æstivation b- 
valvata, extus puberula. Stamina 10, filamento antice squamulæ obovate EE aen th бй 
juscula oblongo-elliptica, obtusiuscula. Ovarium 5-lobum, 5-loculare, disco insertum ; styli b + = x 
stigma 5-denticulatum ; ovula solitaria. Drupa carnosa, 8-5-pyrena. PS Dee 
Hab. Woods, Madi, Col. Grant! Also at Zanzibar. 
