Apart from the many uses by Europeans, there is little use made of them by 

 Africans although the children like to eat them. 



Ref. 23. 



*114. C. paradisa Macf. (Rutac.) Grapefruit. 



Grape fruit have been grown for some years by Europeans, particularly in the 

 Southern Province. 



*115. C. sinensis Osbeck. Orange. 



Mlalanji (N), malalanji. 



A native of China ; orchards have been established throughout the country by 

 the Government Department of Agriculture and in the Southern Province by estate 

 owners. A few orange trees are to be found scattered all over the country in the 

 vicinity of administrative centres and mission stations and in a small number of 

 cases, orchards have been established by native growers. 



Ref. 23. 



116. Clematis simensis Fresen. (Ranunc). 



Kongwe, cisa ca mahvu (N) (hornet's nest), liundumula mbulambula, liumabula (Y). 



Liane with pinnate leaves, and cream or white flowers flowering in June. Found 

 on forest edges and in bushlands from 3,000 ft. upwards. 



The leaves are rubbed between the hands and the vapour inhaled as a cure for 

 colds in the head. 



Ref. 26. 



117. Cleome monophylla L. (Capparid.). 



Njerenjedza (C), mwajerenjedza (N), nsonyo (Y) , kazymwalonde (Nk). 



A hairy erect herbaceous annual, 1-2 ft. high, leaves simple 1-3 ins long, long 

 and narrow, flowers in racemes on slender stems, small, white to pink with a dark 

 spot at base. A host of the tobacco aphis. A weed of cultivation, common in 

 villages particularly near cattle kraals. 



The young shoots and flowers or the blades only of the older leaves are cooked 

 together with pounded groundnuts and tomatoes to form a side-dish. The leaves 

 are sometimes mixed with those of luni {Gynandropsis gynandra) or bonongwe 

 [Amaranthus lividus). The cooked product is slightly bitter in the rains and still 

 more so in the dry season and hence is not much liked. The leaves are known to 

 be used occasionally in the following districts: — Kota Kota, Dedza, Ncheu, Fort 

 Johnston, Mlanje, apparently at all elevations. 



Ref. 20; 23. 



118. Clerodendrum uncinatutn Schinz (Verben.). 

 Likodza, likodja (C), mkulakula (Y). 



A rambling shrub with softly pubescent, ovate leaves, recurved axillary spines 

 and solitary axillary scarlet flowers, flowering in dry season, found in dry Brachystegia 

 woodland. 



The roots are used as medicine for bilharzia. 

 Ref. 9; 14; 26. 



119. Coccinia palmata (Sond.) Cogn. (Cucurbit.). 



Fwifwi mwarmleza (C), mphwimphwi (Ng), mangulinjele (Y). See C. quinqueloba 

 for same native names. 



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