140 COL. GRANT—BOTANY OF THE 5РЕКЕ AND GRANT EXPEDITION. 
РНУТОГАССАСЕ Ж. 
1. PHYTOLACCA ABYSSINICA, Hoffm.; App. Speke’s Јошт. 646.—Pircunia abyssinica, 
Мод. ; DC. Prod. xiii. pt. 2, 80. 
Hab. Karagué, Dec. 1861, Col. Grant ! 
Flowers in bud only in our specimen. Cited also from Madagascar and the Cape. 
ГА low-growing bush, found on the hills of Karagué. Bark mouldy green; leaves deep green, wit 
smooth surfaces; berries scarlet, and placed thickly ; seed-vessel five-celled, with a seed and colouring- 
matter in each cell; the colour stains the fingers gamboge.—J. А. G.] 
CHENOPODIACEA. А 
1. CHENOPODIUM ALBUM, L.; DC. Prod. xiii. pt. 2, 70; App. Speke's Journ. 645. 
Hab. Unyoro, Nov. 1862, Col. Grant! А cosmopolitan weed. 
[This was found in dense vegetation on fallow ground overlooking the river, in November, at 2° N. lat. 
Stem woody, distinctly five-sided, streaked a blood-red, erect, and scantily branched.—J. А. G.] 
2. CHENOPODIUM Borrys, L.; DC. Prod. xiii. pt. 2,75; App. Speke’s Journ. 646. 
Hab. Karagué, March 1862, Col. Grant! Another cosmopolitan weed. 
[This is a handsome plant at all times; but in autumn it is particularly so, becoming a perfect foliage- 
plant for introduction into our gardens. It then assumes a bright red autumnal colour, and makes a 
pleasing effect amongst other foliages. It attains 6 feet ; has an erect, rather angular, woody stem. Leaves 
3 by 1 inch, with irregular edges and hairy surface. Flowers minute, green, of five equal parts. Seed-like 
fruits flat, circular, little larger than pin-heads, brown, shining ; there seems but one to each perianth. "The 
whole plant has a medicinal odour; and the natives apply its mashed leaves and flowers to heat-spots.— 
J. Á. ӨЛ 
АМАВАХТАСЕ Ж. 
1. CELOSIA ARGENTEA, L. ; DC. Prod. xiii. pt. 2, 242; App. Speke's Journ. 646. 
Hab. Uganda, July 1862, Col. Grant! Widely spread in the tropics. 
[This 6-feet high plant was in flower and seed near cultivation at 2° М. lat. in August. Its stem is 
smooth, but angular, erect, and woody. Flowers salmon-colour, tending to pink; after the anthers 
burst, the covered cup containing the seeds becomes surrounded by the perianth in which the stamina 
rested. The six seeds at the base of the cup are red, flat, and shining. Тһе stem of the season falls 
down, and other plants of it spring up.—J. А. G.] 
2. OELOSIA TRIGYNA, L.; DC. Prod. xiii. pt. 2, 240; App. Speke's Journ. 646.— C. 
intermedia, Hochst., and C. acroprosodes, Hochst., in hb. Schimp. Abyss. 1854. 
-Hab. Collected in Nov. 1862, Col. Grant ! Widely spread in the African continent. 
[A pot-herb, 2 feet high, by huts. Flowers in November.—J. A. G.] 
9. AMARANTUS CAUDATUS, L.; DC. Prod. xiii. pt. 2, 255; App. Speke's Journ. 646. 
Hab. Karagué, Feb. 1862, Col. Grant! A common weed in the Old-World 
tropies. 
A small specimen mounted on the same sheet (from the Nile, 
3? N. lat.) may perhaps bel to A. 7 = 
rostachys, Willd. (A. patulus, Bert.). 5 ) шау perhap ong chlo 
- [This plant was common at all the cultivated parts of our route. Ribs of the green leaves pink. Seed-like x E 
fruits small, flat, and pale brown. At Madi it is grown for its property of curing headaches: all but the 
root is boiled; and the face and head is washed with the infusion. "The root (boiled) is made into a ° 
black paste and then rubbed into cuts made in the temples.—J. A. G.] 
