The fruit is eaten after peeling off the skin (S.R.). Useful for poles, will sprout 

 again if cut at the proper time and can be used as a livehedge (S.R.). 



Ref. 9; 14. 



283. L. fulva (Engl.) Engl. 

 Kitongomilo (Nk). 



Shrub or straggling bushy tree up to 70 ft. tall with simple ovate to elliptic or 

 trifoliolate leaves densely tomentose beneath, inflorescence up to 6 ins. long, fruits 

 small red. 



Fruits eaten by children in December on the Lake-shore of Karonga District. 

 Bark tough used as string in Tt. 



Ref. 14; 26. 



284. L. schimperi (Hochst. ex A. Rich.) Engl. 

 Kaumhu, ciumbu (N,C). 



Small tree with dark, rough, reticulate bark, young leaves densely covered with 

 pinkish-brown or salmon-pink tomentum, leaflets in 3-4 pairs ovate to elliptic, 

 flowers yellow or yellowish in narrow spike-like racemes. 



An infusion of the bark mixed with that oimkuyu, {Ficus sp.,) and mlembela, 

 {Dalbergiella nyasae,) is drunk as a cure for dysentery. An infusion of the roots or 

 bark is drunk to cure diorrhoea and the roots alone are used to cure syphilis. Bark 

 used for string (Tt). 



Ref. 14; 26. 



285. L. stuhlmannii (Engl.) Engl. (Anacard.). 



Cirusa. (N,Y). 



A much-branched shrub or tree up to 40 ft. tall with coarsely reticulate bark 

 and spreading crown, alternate pinnate or pinnately trifoliate leaves, leaflets very 

 variable in size ; flowers yellow green, dense in simple or branched racemes at the 

 ends of the branchlets ; fruits ovoid, fleshy. 



The fruits are edible. The tree has a useful timber (E.A.). 

 Ref. 14; 17; 26. 



286. Lantana salviifolia Jacq. (Verben.). 

 Nakasonde (Y). 



A shrub up to 8 ft. high, dark-green ovate leaves, globose flower heads which 

 become elongated with a few very small white or pinkish flowers near the top, flowering 

 from January onwards ; fruits in small heads turning purple when ripe. Widespread, 

 common in burnt or cleared forest land. 



Fruits are eaten as a famine food. An infusion of the leaves are used as eye 

 medicine (S.A.). 

 Ref. 14; 15; 18; 26. 



287. Lasiosiphon kraussianus (Meisn.) Burtt Davy (Thymel.), Yellowheads. 

 Katupe (C), (name used also for other flsh poisons). 



An erect perennial herb up to IJ ft. in height, growing often on burnt ground 

 before the rains, hairy; leaves simple, oval, opposite; many small, yellow flowers 

 in heads at ends of stems, each head surrounded by 6-10 involucral bracts, flowers 

 from September to the rainy season. 



A flsh poison ; the plant is pounded up and scattered in river pools during the 

 dry season; it is very potent and dangerous to livestock. Certain tribes in S.R. 



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