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Notes. 
Plants allied to the Ambatch. 
From The Botany of the Speke and Grant Expedition ; Trans. 
Linn. Soc. vol. xxix, p. 58, the following may be taken : — 
4 36. sEschynomene Schimperi , Hochst., in Hb. Schimp. Abyss. 
No. 202; A. Rich. FI. Abyss, i. 202; Baker in FI. Trop. Africa, 
ii. 146. 
‘ Hab . By the Nile, Nov. 1862, Col. Grant. This is a form of the 
Abyssinian plant, from which it may possibly prove distinct when 
more ample material shall have been obtained. 
[. . . ‘A wide-spreading branched tree, 20 feet high, in or by water 
at Unyoro, with the Papyrus. . . . The wood is white, and streaked 
with black longitudinally. It is so remarkable for lightness that 
I measured a log \\ feet long and 15 inches in mean circumference, 
and it weighed only pounds. It is a most useful wood to the 
inhabitants, as they make floats, levers for carrying their loads, blocks 
to cut upon, bolts for their doorways ; and for shields no wood can 
equal it for toughness and lightness, two qualities requisite in the 
shield of the Uganda people. It would make admirable sun hats. — 
J. A. G.] 
‘37. PE. indica , Linn.; DC., Prod. ii. 320; Baker in FI. Trop. 
Africa, ii. 167; Wight Ic. t. 405. 
l Hab. Unyoro, Sept. 1862, Col. Grant! Widely spread in Trop. 
Africa and Asia. 
[‘ Native name “ m’neenge ” (Zanzibar). Plentiful everywhere : at 
5 0 S. lat. ; in the dry season (September) its dead stem was prostrate 
on the dried mud ; but at 2 0 N. lat., in the same month it was in leaf 
and fruit. Though only growing straight to 6 or 7 feet high, the 
thickest part of the stem measures large in proportion, 16 inches in 
circumference. — J. A. G/] 
C. W. HOPE. 
