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Hab, 19° N. lat., flower, Мау 1868, Col. Grant! Common іп М ile-land, the Меді- 
terranean countries, and India. 
. [Creeper, found spreading itself over sand hillocks of the desert, at 19° N. lat., after each rainy season. 
The leaves are of a beautiful green colour, crisp to feel, and curling ; but they smell most unpleasantly 
if rubbed. Тһе fruit is from 6 to 9 inches in diameter ; from it a liquid or tar, which smells of fish-oil, 
is extracted by the people of Berber upon the Nile. Тһе fruit is heated in the fire in an earthen vessel 
with a hole in it; and the oil drips through to another vessel, nothing being added, to make it fit for 
smearing leather water-bags. Тһе bad smell of the oil, and, indeed, of the leaves, prevents the camels 
from cutting open the water-bags when crossing a desert. Тһе tar sells at two pence per pint. 'The 
shell colocynth is called here on the Nile “hundhul?’—J. A. G.] 1 
7. CEPHALANDRA INDICA, Naud.; Hook. fil. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 550.— Coccinia 
indica, Wight, Ill. ii. tab. 105: App. Speke's Journ. 635, and Cucurbitacea no. 8 (l. c.). 
Coccinia Schimperi, Naud., C. Moghadd, Ascherson, et Cucurbita exanthematica, Fenzl 
(fide Hook. fil. 1. c). | 
Наб. M'géta, flower, Oct. 1860, and Unyoro, flower and fruit, Oct. and Nov. 1862, 
Col. Grant! Extends from Senegambia eastward into India. 
[This grows luxuriantly over trees, covering them with its leaves. Тһе leaves have their edges tipped 
behind with red spots. Тһе fruit, in November at 9? N. lat., is 2 inches long by 1 across, green, with 
six to eight streaks on its surface, which is smooth. Тһе Waganda admire this plant, and wreath it 
round their heads.—J. А. G.J 
8. CEPHALANDRA QUINQUELOBA, Schrad.; Hook. fil. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 551.— 
Coccinia palmatisecta, Kotschy (fide Hook. fil. 1, с.). Cucurbitacea no. 1 & 2, App. Speke's 
Journ. 635. | | 
Hab. M'géta, 7? 20' S. lat., flower, Oct. 1860, and Noer country, 8'-9^ N. lat., flower, 
March 1863, Col. Grant! Also in Mozambique and South Africa. | 
[First gathered at 7° 20’ 5. lat., where its flowers were observed to close with the sun. Again at 
7°-8° N. lat., in the Noer country on the Nile, growing up Acacia Catechu, with its beautiful leaves 
much soiled from the droppings of birds, which literally swarm here. Flowers (yellow-white) in March. 
—J. A. 6.) 
9. CUCURBITA MAXIMA, Duchesne; Hook. fil. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 555; App. 
Speke’s Journ. 635. 
Hab. Unyoro, Col. Grant! А variable plant, largely cultivated in the tropics. 
[This “ maboga” vegetable is extensively used by the natives, who cook its leaves, male flowers, and 
seeds, as well as the fruit, and call it * matagararreh.” Met with from 5° $. to 9° N.—J. А. G.] 
. 10. Bryonopsis LACINIOSA, Arnott; Hook. fil. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 556.— 
Bryonia laciniosa, L.; App. Speke’s Journ. 685. В. tenuis, Klotzsch (fide Hook. 
fil. Lei, 
Hab. Unyoro, flower, Nov. 1862, Col. Grant! Widely spread in the Old-World 
tropics. 
[This climber is offensive in smell to handle and to cut. The leaves have a rough surface, and are 
of a very dark glossy green colour. The fruit is the size of a marble, and its surface is beautifully 
marked longitudinally with eight to ten streaks of white and scarlet. The natives would prize beads made 
to resemble the fruit even more than silver coinage, which they are ignorant of.—J. А. G.J 
11. MUKIA SCABRELLA, Arnott; Hook. fil. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii, 561; App. 
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