150 COL. GRANT—BOTANY OF THE 5РЕКЕ AND GRANT EXPEDITION. 
5. Ficus GLUMOSA P, Delile.— Urostigma glumosum, Miq. Monog. Ficuum, in Hook. 
Journ. Bot. 1847, 552. : 
Hab. Madi, Dec. 1862 (Ficus по. 5, App. Speke’s Journ. 648), Col. Grant ! 
[The “ w chæræ” (Kis.) and “ m'soko " (Kin.) fig-tree. Trunk 5 feet and upwards in circumference ; 
outer bark of a bluish stone-grey colour; under the scales it is yellow. Branches handsome and out- 
spreading, giving good shade. Leaves 4 by 23 inches, rigid and not limp; petioles the same, and half the 
length of the leaves. The fruit grows from leaf-axils, is 4 inch in diameter when ripe, reddish, not so downy 
as that of F. sycamorus, and marked by excrescences ; two rounded bracts are attached to the fruit. Seeds 
numerous. Green pigeons were eating the fruit in December. Bark sheets and ropes are made in Heeao 
from this, the m’chere fig.—J. А. G.] 
6. Ficus по. 6, App. Speke's Journ. 648. 
A single barren branch, possibly allied to F. trachyphylla, Fenzl. The leaves are very scabrous, very 
shortly petiolate, ovate-rotundate from a cordate base, and serrate-dentate. 
[A fig-tree with erect branches and very rough-surfaced leaves, seen at 3° 15! N. lat. in December.— 
J. A. G.] 
1. URTICA DIOICA, L.; DC. Prod. xvi. pt. 1, 50; App. Speke’s Journ. 647. Var. 
caulibus petiolisque setis reversis subpatentibusve horridis. 
-Hab. Unyoro, Nov. 1862, Col. Grant! А cosmopolitan weed. 
[This nettle (called “ reekoossa ? and “ nyamboozee,” from m’boozee a goat, as they bleat when stung 
by it) was collected from the borders of the Karagué lake, where it grows 3 feet high, with straggling 
2-feet-long white roots. It was also seen fencing a sacred spot at Karagué, and here grew 7 feet high, a 
really handsome plant, its large leaves drooping gracefully and guarding the flowers. 
of the stem was fully feathered with leaves, while below for 4 feet it was bare. 
a purgative. Flowers in November.—J. A. G.] 
The upper portion 
The root is used as 
8. FLEURYA ÆSTUANS, Gaud.; DC. Prod. xvi. pt. 1, 71; App. Speke's Journ. 647. 
Hab. Madi, Dec. 1862, Col. Grant! Widely spread in tropical countries. 
[Found amongst rocks under a fig-tree in the woods of Madi. 
LAU In flower during December.— 
9. CANNABIS SATIVA, L. ; DC. Prod. xvi. pt. 1, 30; App. Speke's Journ. 647. 
Hab. Mininga, April 1861, Col. Grant! Cultivated through the Old-World Tropics. 
[Called “ bhang,” and “doom’o” after it has flowered. South of the equator this plant grows on 
every dung-hill; and its leaves are gathered for smoking in the end of Apri. Attains a height of 
5 feet. The men while smoking it whoop and scream loudly i : 
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smoke from their повез and mouths. In seed during April.—J. A. G.] e i e 
CERATOPHYLLEX. 
1. CERATOPHYLLUM, sp., App. Speke's Journ. 647. 
_ Наб. Unyoro, Aug. 1862, Col. Grant ! 
In the absence of fruit, nothing further can be said. 
[Grows in the Nile, flowering in August at 2? N. lat.—J, A. G.] 
