82 COL. GRANT—BOTANY ОЕ THE 5РЕКЕ AND GRANT EXPEDITION. 
2. HYMENODICTYON, sp. ? i 
A fruiting specimen only, which I cannot venture to identify with any species in the Kew herbarium. 
Extremities puberulous ; leaves broadly ovate, or almost rotundate-elliptical, obtuse, or broadly pointed, 
early glabrous, 2-23 ins. long, with petioles, winged above, of 3-3 in. Stipules caducous. Fruits $ in. 
in length, shortly pedicellate. 
Hab. Madi (no. 686), fruit, Dec. 1862, Col. Grant ! 
[Shrub, 6 to 8 feet high, with clusters of fruit, ripe in December, and growing on the banks of the 
stream at Madi, 3° N. lat. The seed-vessel is olive-shape and size, of a dull purple-brown colour, with 
grey excrescences upon its surface. Each seed-vessel at its extremity splits into four; and there appear 
one division and four flat elliptical winged scales. A fruit-bearing branch grows opposite a leaf-bearing 
one. Leaves glossy and soft, broadest at their extremity. Wood said to be useless. Called * m'poom- 
veea” by Wakeembo and “wfo > (Kin.).—J. А. G.] 
3. CrossoPTERYX KOTSCHYANA, Fenzl; Walp. Rep. vi. 70; Kotschy et Peyr. Pl. Tinn. 
82, tab. xv. 
Hob. Madi, flower and fruit, Dec. 1862, Col. Grant! Found also in Fesoglu and 
elsewhere in Nile-land, in Zambesia and Senegambia. C. febrifuga, Benth., to which it 
was referred in App. Speke's Journ. 636, may prove to be merely a glabrous form. 
[Native name “ m’tzloambai” (Кіп). А bushy-growing tree or shrub, many branches and brittle 
wood, found in fruit at Май in December. It has many clusters of pea-sized elliptical berries from the 
tips of the branches. When ripe these are hard, black, shining, with the mark of a large calyx on them ; 
they split naturally into two, with two seeds, marked by four to five fringed scales. Large caterpillars 
eat its leaves, which are closely downy underneath, with prominent yellow-tinted ribs. А variety with 
sweetly-scented flowers, pink corolla-tube, more linear petals than above, and different leaves was also 
observed. The natives fumigate their bark cloths with its seeds; they also powder them, and rub their 
bodies with a pomade of it.—J. A. G.] 
4. PENTAS QUARTINIANA, Hook. fil. in Benth. & Hook. fil. Gen. P1. ñi. 54. Егесіз e basi 
suffrutescente ; caule subquadrato-tereti, pilosulo v. pubescente, sicco internodiis bisuleato ; 
foliis lanceolato-ellipticis, acutis, basi in petiolum brevissimum angustatis, supra pilosulis 
glabratisve, subtus precipue in nervo medio secundariisque (utrinque ad 14-18) hirtellis, 
stipularum lobis erectis, setoso-filiformibus ; paniculis terminalibus, multifloris, densis; 
floribus subsessilibus; calycis lobis duobus contiguis quam cæteris majoribus; corollæ 
tubo gracili sursum infundibuliformi-dilatato, fauce pilosa, lobis tubo 3-4-plo brevi- 
oribus, ovato-oblongis ; staminibus inclusis.— Pignaldia Quartiniana, A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. 
i 957; App. Speke's Journ. 636. 
Herba 13-2 ped. alta. Folia 4-5 poll. longa ; petiolus 4 poll. v. brevior. Flores in paniculam cymosam, 
rotundatam congesti, sessiles v. brevissime pedicellati. Calyx scabridus, lobis majoribus ovalibus, 1-1 poll. 
longis, ceteris inæqualibus, lineari-lanceolatis, 2-і poll. longis. Corolla tubo š poll. longo, supra medium 
dilatato, extus glabro, lobis ovato- v. lanceolato-oblongis, æstivatione valvatis, Anthere anguste lineares, 
sub medio affixæ, incluse. Stylus exsertus, bifidus, lobis linearibus. 
Hab. Madi and Ukidi, Nov. and Dee., in flower, Col. Grant ! 
[This plant grows 2 feet high near the open grassy ground of the forests at 3° N. lat. Uncommon, 
and only observed here.—J. А. G.] 
Plate XLVI. fig. 1. Single flower, detached ; fig. 2. Corolla, laid open ; fig. 8. Anther ; 
fig. 4. Calyx and pistil; fig. 5. Transverse section of ovary ; fig. 6. Placenta covered with 
ovules; fig. 7. Detached peltate ovule. | | 
