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ADDENDA. BY COL. GRANT. 
The two following species were accidentally omitted under their proper heads in the 
preceding enumeration. 
Сомровіт ж. 
ХотохтА GRANTH, Oliv. & Hiern, PL Trop. Afr. iii. (ined.).— K7einia ? sp., App. Speke's ' 
Journ. 638. 
Hab. M’bimi, 6° 56' S. lat., Col. Grant ! 
LILIACE. 
 ORNITHOGALUM Есктомг, Schlecht. ; Baker, in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiii. 276.—Scilla, sp., 
App. Speke’s Journ. 649. 
PALMA. 
The following Palms were observed during the expedition and identified; but no 
specimens having been brought to Kew, they were not included in the enumeration. 
1. Рнахтх, sp. Wild Date. Clusters of them were seen growing on the hill-sides, 
80-40 feet high, with pendent bunches of Indian-red fruit, on either side of the equator 
for two degrees. The edible Date is totally unknown in the countries through which we 
travelled; the people do not understand the propagation of them.—J. А. G. 
2. Cucos NUCIFERA, L. Cocoa-nut. Abundant at Zanzibar in 1860; but a hurricane 
visited the island in 187-, and destroyed. the majority of them. A few grow on the east 
coast of the mainland; but none were met with in the interior.—J. A. G. 
3. Borassus ЖТНТОРТО08, Mart. This Palm extends more or less from Zanzibar 
island to the Egyptian territory, and when without a stem in its young state is called 
“ meelalla ” (Kin.) ; full-grown it is the “ m’voomo” (Kis.), “mohama” (Kin.), and 
“ deleb ” (Egypt). One trunk measured, when cut down, 374 feet greatest circumference, 
root end 9 feet 3 inches, and 7 feet 1 inch at four feet from the ground. When growing, 
the thickest portion of the trunk appears far up the tree. The edible part of the smooth 
blotched fruit is yellow, stringy, and of a fruity flavour. А sweet insipid juice is col- 
lected three times daily from incisions made under its leaves, and drunk by the natives at 
Mininga, 4° 18’ S. lat. The young shoots are made into flageolet-reeds by the Africans, 
and the old leaves into sieves, baskets, thatch, rope, and fuel; the leaves give а most 
brilliant white light, crackling as they burn. At 11° М. lat. the Shillooks made admi- 
rable matting and baskets with the leaves; and the Wanyamezi eat its roots, cooked, 
during famines. Its appearance is always a welcome sight to the traveller in Africa, as 
it always denotes water.—J. A. G. . : 
_ 4. HYPHÆNE ТНЕВАТСА, Mart. This branching Palm was observed between the east 
coast and the east-coast range, but seldom (Uganda) again till we reached 6° N. lat. 
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