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this has hazel-coloured bark; and baskets made of its withies are fine, strong, and red-tinted. People 
chew its roots; but I could discover no taste and no use in them.—J. А. G.] 
Plate XCVII. fig. 1. Portion of inflorescence with male and female flowers; fig. 2. 
Conduplicate bract of female flowers; fig. 3. Staminate flower; fig. 4. Anther; fig. 5. 
Pistil. : 
15. ACALYPHA PSILOSTACHYA, Hochst.; DC. Prod. xv. pt. 2, 865; A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. 
ii. 246. x 
Нађ. Karagué, Nov. 1861 (Acalypha no. 5, App. Speke’s Journ. 647), Col. Grant ! 
Acalypha no. 6, 1. c., from M’bwiga, 7° 24! S. lat., Dr. Mueller thinks may be the same “лэн! but 
the specimen 18 ED Found also in Abyssinia and Zambesi-land. 
16. ACALYPHA VAHLIANA, Muell. Arg.; DC. Prod. ху. s 2, 879. Herba 14-3- 
pedalis; caule erecto, inferne plus minus ramoso, pilosulo v. tenuiter pubescente ; -foliis 
longe petiolatis, ovatis v. ovato-lanceolatis, acutis v. breviter acuminatis, basi rotundatis 
v. late cuneato-rotundatis, serratis, parce pilosulis, membranaceis ; spicis subsessilibus, 
petiolo saepius brevioribus; bracteis foem. numerosis, bifloris, late truncato-rotundatis, 
conduplieatis, serratis, longitudinaliter nervosis, capsulas superantibus. 
Folia 1-2 (v. in spp. Africæ occid. 4) poll. longa, 3-1 poll. lata; petiolus 2-2 poll. longus. Spice sessiles 
v. subsessiles, 1-4 poll. longæ. 
Hab. 5° 8. lat., alt. 3800 feet, and Unyoro, Aug. 1862 (Acalypha crenata, App. Speke’s 
Journ. 646), Col. Grant ! 
[Found about cultivated ground at Unyoro. In flower in August.—J. А. С. | 
Plate XCVI. fig. 1. Staminate flower; fig. 2. Anther; fig. 3. Conduplicate bract of 
pistillate flower; fig. 4. Same, laid open. 
17. ACALYPHA n. 3, App. Speke's Journ. 646. Not ina state to determine. Тһе plant 
is glabrous, with ovate, sharply acuminate, serrate leaves, with rather long petioles, and 
a terminal spike of pistillate flowers with finely Я much-exserted, red-brown styles. 
Hab. Madi, Dec. 1862, Col. Grant ! 
[One of the brushwoods on the banks of Madi burn, and very pretty. Flowers in December.— 
J. А. G.J 
18. TRAGIA мітіз, Hochst.; DC. Prod. xv. pt. 2, 942.—T. маны. А Rich. Fl. Abyss. 
ii. 244; App. Speke's Journ. 647. 
Hab. Karagué, Ge 1861, Col. Grant ! 
[Called “ m’wavee.” А climber or creeper by water, amongst bushes in the ravines about Karagué. 
The whole plant is covered with fine shining bristles, which sting and pain worse than any nettle. 
Gathered in flower at Karagué, alt. 5000 feet, during December.—J. А. G.] 
19. RICINUS communis, L.; DC. Prod. ху. pt. 2, 1017; App. Speke’sJ ourn. 647. 
Hab. Unyoro, Nov. 1862, Col. Grant! 
[At Zanzibar this plant grows higher than the huts of the natives, who distinguish two varieties, the 
“ m”bono > and * m’bareeka.” М’Ъопо is the smaller of the two, yielding an oil which is too odorous 
even for the people to use as an unguent for their bodies; but it is taken as a medicine. This variety 
was seen at Zanzibar only. The m’bareeka was common by huts in the interior, where the people use it 
medicinally, both the leaves and the oil. The green leaves, if heated and applied to a swollen leg, act as 
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