72 COL. GRANT—BOTANY OF THE 5РЕКЕ AND GRANT EXPEDITION. 
same species was out of leaf, but in flower, in September; another specimen was in leaf and in fruit in 
December. The tree was ugly and contorted, the trunk 30 inches in circumference, the bark like our 
elm, the wood white and hard, the fruit ovate, 14 inch long. The natives scour their milk-pots with ita 
large coriaceous leaves. Charcoal is made of the wood. The natives call all Combreta by the generic 
name of “< m'landala," and convert the larger species into charcoal, used by their blacksmiths in smelting 
iron.—J. А. G.] 
Of Combretum no. 8, App. Speke's Journ. 634, no specimen has been preserved. 
8. TERMINALIA MACROPTERA P, Guill. et Perrottet, Fl. Seneg. 276, tab. 63; Lawson, in 
Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 416. 
Hab. Madi, in fruit, Dec. 1862, Col. Grant ! 
Referred with doubt to the Senegambian species by Prof. Lawson. Тһе leaves of Col. Grant's spe- 
cimen vary to 1 foot in length, and are shortly pubescent-tomentose, and strongly reticulate beneath; 
fruits 3 inches long, 11-12 inch broad; the dilated fructiferous disk } inch thick, nearly 1 inch long, 
and + inch broad ; disk and wing thinly tomentose or puberulous. 
[A fine, large, handsome tree, 10 to 12 feet circumference of trunk. Тһе old bark is hard, black, 
and fissured ; the young is marbled red and grey. Wood lemon-yellow and watery when fresh. Тһе 
leaves are from 6 to 12 inches long, and grow in tufts from the tips of the branches ; they are rough, with 
a polished surface. Fruit in December at Gani, 3? N. lat.,—an elliptical scale, 2 inches by 1 inch, with its 
centre woody and inflated in appearance ; the kernel is only 1 inch long, and eats as sweet as an almond. 
. Called * m’foof’oo ” (Kin.. Тһе natives use it for tinting their cloths (made of bark) а yellow colour ; 
and the Arabs make supports for their houses of its wood. Observed only in the above locality.—J. A. G.] 
9. ANOGEISSUS LEIOCARPUS, Guill. et Perrottet, Fl. Seneg. 280, tab. 65; Lawson, in 
Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 418.— Conocarpus leiocarpa, DC. Prod. iii. 16. С. Schimperi, 
Hochst., and C. pervifolius, Hochst., in hb. Schimp. Abyss. Anogeissus acumimatus, 
App. Speke's Journ. 634. 
Hab. Bari country, White Nile, 4° N. lat.; flower, Feb. 1863, Col. Grant! Also in 
Abyssinia and Senegambia. 
Prof. Lawson remarks (1. с.) that А. acuminatus of India differs in the much longer mucro of the fruit. · 
[Tree, with trunk from 4 to 6 feet in cireumference, light airy delicate foliage; flowers, at 4? N. lat., 
in February. Never before met with, and unknown to our men.—J. А. G.J] 
MYRTACE Ж. 
1. EUGENIA OWARIENSIS, P. de Beauv. Fl. Owar. ii. 20, tab. 70; Lawson, in Oliv. Fl. 
Trop. Afr. ii. 438.—Syzygium guineense, Guill. et Perrottet, FI. Seneg. 315, tab. 72. 
Hab. Madi, in flower (inflorescence abnormal), Dec. 1862, Col. Grant ! 
If Prof. Lawson’s identification be correct, this must be a wide-spread species in Tropical Africa. 
[* M’safwa,” plum-tree ; stem 20 to 30 inches in circumference. The bark scales off and is of a red-white 
colour. . Timber red, and cross in the grain, not milky. Тһе branching of this tree is singular. ` Leaves 
of a grey-yellow colour. Petioles reddish, twisted, and remarkably uniform in size. А mass of inflo- 
rescence hangs from the tips of the branches, but of these flowers only two or three plums are formed. 
Flowers pink. Fruita plum, walnut size, one-stoned, black or red in colour, tasting watery and cucumber- 
like.—J. A. G.] | 
_ 2. CARYOPHYLLUS AROMATICUS, L. 
[The clove was largely cultivated at Zanzibar: but in 1872 a terrific hurricane levelled the clove, palm, 
