118 COL. GRANT—BOTANY ОЕ THE 5РЕКЕ AND GRANT EXPEDITION. 
(А diminutive but very pretty plant, without any erect branches. It adheres tenaciously to the level 
bare ground of plantain-groves by rootlets from all parts of its stem. Flowers (July) snow-white. Seed- 
vessel three-cornered, many-seeded. Styles 2, deeply forked. After the flower falls off, the seed-vessel turns 
into the ground, like the Arachis hypogea, and propagates.—J. A. G.] 
Plate LX XVIII. В. fig. 1. Flower; fig. 2. Corolla, laid open; fig. 3. Stamen; fig. 4. 
Pistil; fig. 5. Calyx and capsule; fig. 6. Capsule, transverse, and fig. 7. Vertical 
section. 
19. ConvoLvuLAcEA ?—Aniseia ?, sp., App. Speke's Journ. 641. 
Hab. 2° 42 8. lat., Usui valley, prostrate upon the bare ground, Col. Grant ! 
In the absence of flower and fruit, the genus of this curious plant must remain undetermined. The 
leaves are sessile, ovate-oblong, obtuse, mucronate, from a cordate base, glabrous above except the midrib 
and margin, pubescent beneath. It may be an Evolvulus near the Brazilian E. latifolius, or related to 
Dr. Klotzsch's Zambesi genus Calycanthemum, or no Convolvulacea at all. 
SOLANACEÆ. 
1. SOLANUM NIGRUM, L.; DC. Prod. xiii. 50. 
Hab. Mininga, Karagué, and by the Nile, 28” N. lat. (Solanum no. 1, App. Speke’s 
Journ. 641). 
Two forms of this variable cosmopolitan weed. 
2 [4 feet high, erect, and succulent; growing under a fig-tree at 5° S. lat. Corolla white. Fruit dimi- 
nutive and red, in clusters. Root long, white, and twisted. Its leaves are eaten boiled.—J. A. G.] 
2. SOLANUM MELONGENA, L.; App. Speke’s Journ. 641.—S. esculentum, Dun.; DC. 
Prod. xiii. 855. 
Hab. 5° S. lat., Col. Grant! Commonly cultivated in warm countries. 
8. SOLANUM, sp., which I cannot precisely identify ; apparently allied to 5. melongena 
and the forms which are associated with it. It is unarmed, though with indication of 
aculei on the calyx, and shortly and closely clothed with a yellowish tomentum, almost 
scabrid on the upper side of the ovate-oblong obtusely subacuminate leaves. 
Hab. 5° S. lat., 33° E. long. Common in waste fields, 8800 feet. Berry light yellow 
(Solanum no 2, App. Speke's Journ. 641), Col. Grant ! | 
4. SOLANUM DUPLO-SINUATUM, Klotzsch, in Peters, Mossamb. Bot. 233 (ex descriptione). 
Hab. Unyoro, Nov. 1862 (Solanum no. 8, App. Speke's Journ. 641), Col. Grant ! 
The only discrepancy between our plant and the description consists in the absence of hairs on the 
base of the style. 
[Low-growing, about a foot high. Stems thick, round, with prickles of } inch, and a stellate pubes- 
cence. Leaves a span long, with straight angry prickles of 4 inch, those on the upper surface almost 
corresponding with those underneath. Flowers mauve-colour, closing with the day. Stamens yellow 
with brown tips. By paths and huts, Unyoro (November). Native name “ toong'goojah > (Kis.). 
—J. X. G.J 
5. CAPSICUM CONICUM, Mey., var. orientale; DC. Prod. xiii. 415; Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. 
Æthiop. 87.— C. frutescens, L. ; App. Speke's Journ. 641. | 
Над. Unyoro, Nov. 1869, Col. Grant ! 
[This grows wild at 2° N. lat., and also further south.—J. А. G.] 
