68 COL. GRANT—BOTANY ОЕ THE SPEKE AND GRANT EXPEDITION. 
line of the foliage round and handsome. The pods are full of a brown crisp gum, which exudes from 
wounds in the trees. Native name * soonud" in Nubia. The Nubians and Egyptians collect its pods 
for dyeing their cloths a dingy yellow. Our boat on the Nile was made of its wood; and we saw boat- 
building at 12° by a forest of this tree. Though the wood is tough and cross-grained, it is said not to 
last. We heard that at Muscat the people pound its seeds, mix them with dates, and make an intoxicating 
drink.—J. А. G.] 
93. Асаста Sevan, Delile, Fl. d’Egypte, 142, t. 52. fig. 2; Oliver, in Fl. Trop. Afr. 
ii. 851. 
Hab. Plentiful about 9° N. lat., March 1863, and 18° by the Nile, April 1863, Col. 
Grant! Common north of the equator in Tropical Africa, and also occurring in Zam- 
besi-land. | 
[Forests of this tree, growing at 9° to 10° N. lat. upon the left bank of the Nile, were in flower and 
fruit in March. They are the size of a large apple-tree, and had the red-stemmed parasite Loranthus 
acacie growing upon it. The trunk and branches have no asperities upon them’; but they are covered with 
a powder of an indian-red colour, perhaps from the above parasite, which conceals the apple-green- 
coloured soft bark. The trees grow rather flat-topped, from, I imagine, the weight of the fruit and the 
tenderness of the shoots. Elephants are very destructive here to these trees; for they knock them down 
to get at the pods. The gum is of a bright amber-colour, and flows freely from all wounds. When it 
dries it becomes white and brittle, like dried crumbs of bread. The botanical name coincides with the 
native name “ m'salla."—J. A. G.] 
94. ACACIA STENOCARPA, Hochst.; A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 238; Oliver, Fl. Trop. Afr. 
ii. 351. : 
Hab. Madi, December 1862 (Хо. 677), and perhaps also Karagué, December 1861 
(No. 384, in fl. only), Col. Grant! Found in Nubia and Abyssinia. 
[Native name “ m”ceekeezzee.” Тһе bark of this bush is of a pale hazel-bark colour and scales off. 
Flowers orange-yellow colour and sweetly scented. Its thorns have black tips. We made ropes from 
its inner bark, by beating off the outer bark with stones and using the inner.—J. А. G.] 
(95. Acacta EBURNEA?, App. Speke's Journ. 688. Thirty feet high, with extraordinary outline of 
foliage; it is horizontal or slightly inclined, the branches growing flatly out like the yew tree. The 
thorns are an inch long, straight, white, and double. Met with only upon the steep slopes of the east- 
coast range, amongst boulders of igneous rock, at an altitude of 4700 feet, lat. 6° 38’ S.—J. А. G.] 
(96. Асаста sp., App. Speke’s Journ. 633. M’goongwah (Kin.), a fine lofty tree, with hard, dark, 
heavy wood, and dark bark. Exudes gum in spots the size of marbles, and as bright as amber. Pods 
contorted, 10 by 14 inches, thin as brown paper, and of a pale, dull, brick-red colour. Seeds (say ten) 
flat, shining, broadly ovate, and } inch long. The natives, in speaking of its wood, say that it sinks in 
water, also that few men are strong enough to carry a log of it. They make hatchet-handles and bows 
with it.—J. A. G.] 
97. Ansatz LEBBEK, Benth. in Hook. Journ. Bot. iii. (18 
Afr. ii. 358. 
Hab. Planted, Khartoum, Col. Grant! Sent home also from Upper Guinea and various 
localities in Tropical and Subtropical Asia. Dr. Peters collected it in Mozambique. 
SD ie called “ lubach,” = lebbek, by the people of Khartoom, where it flourishes about the Govern- 
ment buildings, and affords thick shade. Тһе foliage is handsome. The flowers are out in April, and 
are richly scented. Its wood is considered useless for building-purposes.—J. А. G.J 
44) 87; Oliver, іп Fl. Trop. 
