58 COL. GRANT—BOTANY OF THE SPEKE AND GRANT EXPEDITION. 
84. ALHAGI MAURORUM, Desv.; DC. Prod. ii. 352; Baker, in Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 142. 
Hab. Very common in waste ground about Thebes &c., Col. Grant! А common 
desert plant. 
[Eaten greedily by camels.—J. А. G.] 
35. HERMINIERA ELAPHROXYLON, Guill et Perr. Fl Seneg. 201, t. 51; Baker, in 
Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 144.—ZÆdemone mirabilis, Kotschy, in CEstr. Bot. Monatschrift, No. 4 
(1858), cum tab. TR | 
Hab. Upper Nile, 3° to 8° N. lat., Col. Grant! Widely. distributed in Tropical 
Africa. 
[The “ ambach." Its growth is so rapid that in three years it choked the proper channel of the river 
“ Bahr Gazelle.” Тһе natives use its light logs to assist them in swimming across the Nile.—J. A. G.] 
86. ÆSCHYNOMENE SCHIMPERI, Hochst. in hb. Schimp. Abyss. No. 202; A. Rich. 
Fl. Abyss. i. 202; Baker, in Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 146. 
Нађ. By the Nile, Nov. 1862, Col. Grant! This is a form of the Abyssinian plant, 
from which it may possibly prove distinct when more ample material shall have been 
obtained. e e 
[Native names “ пагргерге > (Kis.), also *kong-gölo” (Кіп). А wide-spreading-branched tree, 20 
feet high, in or by water at Unyoro, with the Papyrus. The bark of a branch was marked with burst 
blisters and lines, and was оҒа dull rusty-brown colour. Small knots show upon a log of it. The wood 
is white, and streaked with black longitudinally. It is so remarkable for lightness, that I measured a 
log 44 feet long and 15 inches in mean cireumference, and it weighed only two and a half pounds. It is 
a most useful wood to the inhabitants, as they make floats, levers for carrying their loads, blocks to cut 
upon, bolts for their doorways; and for shields no wood can equal it in toughness and lightness, two 
qualities requisite in the shield of the Waganda people. It would make admirable sun-hats.—J. A. G.] 
:87. ÆSCHYNOMENE INDICA, Linn.; DC. Prod. ii. 320; Baker, in Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 147 ; 
Wight, Ic. t. 405. 
Hab. Unyoro, Sept. 1862, Col. Grant ! Widely spread in Tropical Africa and Asia. 
[Native name * m”neenge > (Zanzibar). Plentiful everywhere: at 5° S. lat. in the dry season (Sep- 
tember), its dead stem was prostrate on the dried mud; but at 9? N. lat., in the same month, it was in 
leaf and fruit. Though only growing straight to 6 or 7 feet high, the thickest part of the stem measures 
large in proportion, 16 inches in circumference.—J. А. G.J : ° 
38. SMITHIA CAPITULIFERA, Welwitsch; Baker, in Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 152. Annua v. 
biennis, diffusa, ramosa, sparsim patenter setosa; foliis 12-18-foliolatis, foliolis oblongis, 
rigidulis ; stipulis parvis, basifixis, subulatis v. lanceolatis, acuminatis, nervosis; floribus 
in eapitulis multifloris, bracteatis, terminalibus, congestis, breviter pedicellatis ; calyce 
_ 4-fido corolla paullo breviore; ovario 2-ovulato. 
__ Нета v. suffrutez diffusus ramosus, ad 1 ped. alt., ramulis subelongatis, 
obsitis. Folia pinnata, 3-4 poll. longa, petiolo communi setigero, foliolis 12-18, oblongis, obliquis, obtu- 
siusculis v. oblique acutatis, integris v. apice denticulatis, glabris v. setulas paucas gerentibus, nervulo ex- 
x centrico, $-+ poll. longis, sessilibus. Stipule acuminate, basi petiolo adnate, 1—1 poll. longe. Capitula 
_ terminalia, multiflora, 3-1 poll. lata, bracteata ; bracteæ rigidulæ, ovate v. ellipticæ, acute, setoso-ciliatæ, 
| pedicellum æquantes ; bracteole ad apicem pedicelli, primum calycem æquantes. Calyx 4-fidus, labio 
| superiore ovato-lanceolato, breviter bifido, lobulis acutis, lobis 2 lateralibus ovato-ellipticis, lobo inferiore 
conduplicato, omnibus oblique longitudinaliter nervosis et setuloso-ciliatis. Corolla calycem paullo su- 
setis patentissimis sparsis 
