COL. GRANT—BOTANY OF THE SPEKE AND GRANT EXPEDITION. _ 128 
Var. adscendens, floribus minoribus (0. longiflorum, Eckl. & Zeyh. in App. Speke's 
Journ. 642). | 
Hab. East-coast range, Nov. & Dec. 1860, Col. Grant ! 
(А bushy plant, 1 foot or more in height. Corolla pink, or sometimes white, drying purple-black. 
Found at Karagué, Unyoro, and on the east-coast range generally, growing in large clusters at а season 
when there was nothing else in flower.—J. A. G.] 
Plate LXXXVIII. fig. 1. Corolla-tube, laid open; fig. 2. Stamen. 
15. боРОВГА RAMOSA, Hochst. ; DC. Prod. х. 522.— Rhaphidophyllum ramosum, Hochst., 
in hb. Schimp. Abyss. 507; App. Speke's Journ. 642. 
Hab. Madi, Dec. 1862, Col. Grant ! 
[An erect, hardy, woody plant, 2 to 4 feet high. Found in October on the grassy plateaux of Unyoro. 
Leaves strongly scabrous all over. Corolla pink; filaments yellow; anthers а glossy purple. Root 
long, tapering, and crooked. The people of Heeao wash its ashes and use the water so salted to cook 
their food.—J. А. G.] 
16. SoPUBIA KARAGUENSIS, Oliv., sp. nov. Suffrutescens, ramosa ; ramis adscendentibus, 
puberulis; foliis inferioribus oppositis et in axillis fasciculatis, 3-5-pinnatipartitis, seg- 
mentis anguste linearibus pilosulis; floribus racemosis, pedicellatis ; calycis tomentosi 
profunde 5-041 lobis ovato-lanceolatis, acutis; coroll subrotatæ lobis rotundatis, 
obtusis. 
Suffrutez 3-1-pedalis, ramosus, elegans. Folia 3-1 poll. longa, paucipartita, carnosula. Pedicelli flore 
sæpius breviores; bracteolæ anguste lineares, calycem vix æquantes. Calyx tubo dense tomentoso. 
Hab. Karagué, Dec. 1861. 
[An elegant plant with a woody stem, which has a tendency to purple. Flowers of a rich pink colour 
in December, when it was found on the hill-top at Karagué at an altitude of 5500 feet.—J. A. G.] 
Plate LXXXVII. B. fig. 1. Expanded flower; fig. 2. Corolla and stamens; fig. 3. 
Pistil. 
LENTIBULARIEJ. 
1. UTRICULARIA INFLEXA, Forsk.; DC. Prod. viii. 4. 
Hab. Nile, 2? N. lat., Oct. and Nov. 1862 (Utricularia no. 2, App. Speke's Journ. 642), 
Col. Grant ! 
24 UTRICULARIA REFLEXA, Oliv., in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 146. 
‘ab. Unyoro, Aug. 1862 ( Utricularia no. 1, App. Speke's Journ. 642), Col. Grant ! 
[Found in August, floating on the marshes, at 2° Х. lat., with yellow flowers.—J. A. G.] 
BIGNONIACE X. 
1. STEREOSPERMUM DENTATUM, А. Rich. Fl. Abyss. ii. 58.—Var. foliolis 13-21 poll. 
longis, subdistanter serrulatis, acutiusculis v. breviter acuminatis, supra obsolete sca- 
brulis, subtus glabris. 
Hab. Madi, Feb. 1863 (Stereospermum no. 1, Арр. Speke’s Journ. 642). 
[A tree, in full bloom during January at 3° N. lat., and overhanging water. Leaves compound, 4} 
pairs, bright or pale green, with dull surfaces and flattened ribs. The leaves are ‘used by the bur- 
rowing sand-bee for holding meat for the young bees; these cocoons are found in sand saturated 
with water. Corolla pink-white, with a peculiarly flattened tube; -petals party-coloured, the three 
‘together are pink, the other two white. Seed.vessel resembles а whip-snake, being 18 inches long, 
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