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6. LYCOPERSICUM ESCULENTUM, Mill.; DC. Prod. xiii. 26; App. Speke's Journ. 641. 
Hab. 7 27 S. lat. and elsewhere, Col. Grant. 
I have not seen a specimen. 
[The natives at 7° 27! S. lat. did not know the use of the fruits, and were surprised to see us eat them. 
Frequently met with in the countries between Unyoro and Ugogo.—J. А. G.] 
7. PHysaLIS ÆQUATA, Jacq. fil; DC. Prod. xiii. 447.— P. angulata, App. Speke's 
Journ. 641. 
Hab. Unyoro, 1862, Col. Grant ! 
Determined by comparison with the plate in Jacq. Eclog. ii. 137. Тһе “ЭР ох does not present 
any appearance of angulation. 
[Found by huts at 2° N. lat., where the natives use the leaves as a vegetable.—J. А. G.] 
8. WITHANIA SOMNIFERA, Dun. in DC. Prod. xiii. 453; App. Speke’s Journ. 641. 
Hab. Near villages, 8215” N. lat., Col. Grant! 
[2 to 3 feet high, growing rather flatly near old dwellings at Madi. Has the appearance of the 
Chinese gooseberry-bush. Thornless; stem woody and brown. ‘Two leaves grow usually from 
almost one point. Flowers colourless, petal-tips white. The leaves are cast off by the dense clusters 
of ripe scarlet fruit, which conceal the stem. Seeds flat, white, and roundly three-cornered. Native 
name “ nikéetong’o.” The Sultan of Ukuni had the roots hung over the door of his hut, considering this 
lucky. I asked a Nubian its uses; and he replied by rubbing his arms, thereby implying that it had a 
medicinal virtue.—J. A. G.] 
9. HYOSCYAMUS MUTICUS, Linn.—Scopolia mutica, Dun. іп DC. Prod. xiii. 552. В. 
Datora, App. Speke’s Journ. 641. 
Hab. By the Nile, 28? N. lat., Col. Grant ! 
I refer this to H. muticus, from the absence of spinescent tips to the calyx-lobes. Dr. Schweinfurth 
also gives it a wide distribution in the lower Nile and Libyan region. 
[Found on the banks of the Nile at 28° N. lat., growing as a bush, flowering in May, with long 
tapering root. The captain of our boatmen took several plants on board, dried them, and then smoked 
them in a pipe to cure himself of chest-complaint and spitting of blood. I was informed that it is also so 
used in delirium tremens cases. Native name “thatoora.”—J. A. G.] 
10. NICOTIANA RUSTICA, №; DC. Prod. xiii. 563 ; App. Speke’s Journ. 641. 
Hab. Cultivated at Khartoum &c., Col. Grant ! 
[This species was only met with when we reached 17° N. lat. (Khartoum), where, and further north, fields 
of it are grown by irrigation. The dried leaf of this is paler and not so full-flavoured as N. Tabacum. 
—J. А. G.]. 
11. NICOTIANA TABACUM, L.; DC. Prod. хш. 557; App. Speke’ s Journ. 641 (leaf 
only). 
Hab. Cultivated from 7° 8. lat. to 4° N. lat., Col. Grant ! 
[Seen cultivated from 79 S. lat. to 4? N. lat. The leaves are sold in many forms—plaited like a coil of 
hair, manufactured into cakes the consistence of peat, or sold as broken-up or cut tobacco. The best was 
obtained at Karagué, where a peculiar mode of mixing other ingredients with it (cow’s urine, I believe) 
makes it most agreeable smoking. It is s seldom or ever chewed ; but the re stuff quids of it - 
their noses.—J. A. G.] 
12. DATURA STRAMONIUM, L.; DC. Prod. xiii. 540; App. Speke's Journ. 641. 
Hab. Gardens, 1° 42! S. lat., &c., Col. Grant. Хо specimen. 
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