146 COL. GRANT—BOTANY ОҒ THE SPEKE AND GRANT EXPEDITION. 
Hab. Madi, Dec. 1862 ( Croton, sp., App. Speke’s Journ. 647), Col. Grant! Only known 
from this station. 
[^ M’peefoo,” а tall shrub with a stem 80 inches in circumference, with long, straight, spreading branches, 
in low ground about Madi; in fruit during December. The bark resembles our beech-bark in being 
smooth; but it is softer. Some of the heart-shaped leaves are unusually large, 12 x 10 inches, alternate, 
with a spotted surface, and white underneath, with waved edges. The green unripe seed-vessels are half 
an inch in diameter, closely covered with white pubescence, and nearly round, three-celled and seeded : 
the calyx adheres to the seed-vessel, and consists of five, equal, small, broadly wedge-shaped sepals. A red 
dry powder covers the flower-stalks ; and the leaves smell somewhat like celery. The natives called it a 
useless plant.—J. A. G.] 
Plate XCV. fig. 1. Pistillate flower ; fig. 2. Transverse section of ovary. 
12. CROZOPHORA PLICATA, Å Juss.; DC. Prod. xv. pt. 2, 747.—Var. prostrata, Muell. 
Arr. båt, 
Hab. By the Nile, 16° N. lat., March 1863 (App. Speke’s Journ. 647), Col. Grant ! 
[Small pink flowers, growing fiat in the clayey bed of a stream on the right bank of the Nile at 16° N. lat. 
in March and April.—J. A. G.] 
13. ACALYPHA VILLICAULIS, Hochst.; DC. Prod. xv. pt. 2, 845. Frutescens; caule e 
basi lignosa decumbente subherbaceo subretrorsum hirsuto; foliis ovato-lanceolatis v. 
lanceolatis v. ovatis, subacuminatis, basi cordatis v. integris rotundatisque, serratis, 
pilosis; petiolis limbo brevioribus; spicis masc. gracilibus, fæmineis capitatis; bracteis 
rotundato-reniformibus, multifidis, ovarium hirsutum vix superantibus; stylis elongatis, 
fere per totam longitudinem pectinatim setoso-laciniatis. 
Folia 2-33 poll. longa, 2-13 poll. lata; petiolus 2-9 poll. longus. 
Hab. Karagué, Dec. 1861 (App. Speke's Journ. 646), Col. Grant! Also in Abyssinia, 
Sennaar, and in the Manganja hills. 
[A shrub with pithy, decumbent, round, white-haired branches. In flower during December in the 
hills or ravines of Karagué. Female flowers have their pink pistils much branched ; and the seed-vessel is 
roundly three-celled, with a green much-serrated leaflet at its base.—J. A. G.] 
Plate XCVIII. fig. 1. Staminate flower; fig. 2. Anther; fig. 3. Bract and 
flower ; fig. 4. Same, laid open ; fig. 5. Pistillate flower, earlier stage. 
14. ACALYPHA BIPARTITA, Muell. Arg.; DC. Prod. xv. pt. 2, 860. Ramis gracilibus 
breviter pubescentibus ; foliis ovatis, acutis, basi late cuneato-rotundatis, 3-5-nerviis 144 
ratis, supra appresse pilosulis, subtus molliter pubescentibus ; petiolis limbo 2-3plo bre- 
vioribus; spicis masc. gracilibus pedunculatis, inferne bractea Кеш. unica biflora 
conduplicata, fere ad basin 2-partita onustis, lobis rotundatis, circiter 20-crenato-dentatis. 
flores obtegentibus; stylis brevibus, pectinatim setoso-laciniatis. Бэр 
Ғойа 2-24 poll. longa, 11 poll. lata ; petiolus 2 poll. longus; 
longe, pedunculo 3-1 poll. longo.  Bractea lobis 4-3 poll. latis. 
superantes. 
Hab. Karagué, Nov. 1861 (Acalypha no. 4, App. Speke’s Journ. 646), Col. Grant ! 
Only known from this locality. | | 
[Тыз shrub was found ас Karagué in November іп a thicket near water. 
uniform, and made into baskets in Unyoro. Natives call it * m”cætæ.” 
grows erect; and the two leaflets enclosing the seed are below. Stem 
. 
pistillate 
stipulæ setaceze. Spice folio subæqui- 
"Ovarium hirsutum ; styli bracteam haud 
Leaves tender; branches 
The male portion of the flower 
appears six-sided. А variety of 
