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Hab. Madi, Dec. 1862, Col. Grant! Found also in Abyssinia, the Manganja range, 
Zambesia, and in Nigritania. 
[Erect, woody, leafy-stemmed plant, found in the woods of Madi. In seed during December.— 
J. A.G.] 
13. VERNONIA AMBIGUA, Kotschy & Peyritsch, Pl. Tinn. 35, tab. 17 B.— Vernonia 
no. 8, App. Speke's Journ. 637. 
Hab. Madi, Dec. 1862, Col. Grant! Found by Heuglin between the rivers Bahr- 
Dembo and Bahr-Djun, in fields of Sorghum, and by Barter in N igritania. 
[Dwarf thistle, bushy, and up to 6 inches; grows in patches, locally, on dry stony ground at Madi, in 
December.—J. A. G.] 
14. ELEPHANTOPUS SCABER, L.; DC. Prod. v. 86. 
Hab. Karagué, Feb. 1862, Col. Grant! A common tropical weed. 
[Two feet high, erect plant; found at an altitude of 5000 feet, flowering in February. Calyx pale 
green; corolla Шас.—Ј. A. G.] 
15. AGERATUM CONYZOIDES, L.; DC. Prod. у. 108. 
Hab. Unyoro, Oct. 1862, Col. Grant! A common weed throughout the tropics. 
[Two feet high. Common near fields at 2° N. lat., where it is in flower in October.—J. A. б.) 
16. DrcHROCEPHALA LATIFOLIA, DC. Prod. у. 372.—D. abyssinica, Schultz Bip. in hb. ; 
Schimp. Abyss. i. 176, ii. 949. ; 
Hab. E. African chain, alt. 4700 feet, 1860, Col. Grant ! Widely spread in Tropical 
Africa, extending eastward through India to China. 
[East-African chain of hills, alt. 4700 feet.—J. А. G.] 
17. GRANGEA MADERASPATANA, Poir. Encycl. Suppl. ii. 825. 
Hab. By the Nile, 14°—15° N. lat., March 1863, Col. Grant! Widely spread in Tropical 
Africa. 
[Very brittle stem. Found in March (flowers), at 142-159 N. lat., growing perfectly flat upon the hard 
clay of the Nile-bank.—J. A. G.] 
18. ERIGERON GRANTII, Oliv. & Hiern, Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. (ined.). Annua, 1-2-pedalis ; 
caule erecto, basi simplici, folioso, tenuiter pubescente; foliis lineari-oblongis lineari- 
busve, obtusis v. subacutis, basi angustatis, integris v. remote denticulatis, strigulosis, 
sessilibus; capitulis hemispheericis, pedicellatis, in cymas laxas corymbosas terminales 
dispositis; involucri bracteis subbiserialibus, interioribus lineari-oblanceolatis, acumi- 
natis, margine scarioso, exterioribus paucis linearibus tenuiter pubescentibus ; receptaculo 
nudo; floribus radii 1-seriatis, ligulis patentibus, squamis involucri interioribus paulo 
latioribus ; acheniis compressiusculis, anguste obovoideis, setulosis ; pappo tenui, 1-seriato, 
barbellato, albo. : : 
Folia obscure trinervia, 1-23 poll. longa, 1-1 poll. lata. Capitula 4-2 poll. diam.; pedicelli 1-1 
poll. longi. 
Hab. Unyoro, Aug. 1862 (Poloa? no. 2, App. Speke's Journ. 638), Col. Grant ! 
[A pretty little white-flowering plant, covering fallow ground at 22 N. lat. in August.—J. А.С.) 
Plate LVIII. fig. 1. Ray-floret ; fig. 2. Style of the same; fig. 3. Seta of pappus ; fig. 4. 
Disk-floret ; fig. 5. Stamens; fig. 6. Style. 
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