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NATURAL HISTORY VOCABULARY 



Kiitata-wa (katata-wai) 



Kobowa (knbowe) 

 Kpindi-yali (kpindi-yali) 



Kwandi 



Kata-wulu (kata-wului) 



Kumo (kumoi) 



Kjala - murnu (iijala 

 mumiii 



intervals in clusters. Leaf 

 rough, 3 inches long, deeply 

 veined. The stalks are rough 

 enough to cut the skin. 



Lit. Big katata. A climbing shrub 

 or tree (Monrovia). Leaf 

 similar in appearance to the 

 foregoing, but much larger and 

 smoother. 



Another name for Tejengbwe, but 

 rare. 



A thorny shrub with long climbing 

 stems. Very troublesome in 

 fallows. Leaf alternate, 2 x H 

 inches, tender, retuse oval. 

 (^ Mimosa pigra — Leguminosac.) 



See under Fande. 



A shrub used for hedges, hence its 

 name (kata = hedge, fence). 

 Leaf ivy-shaped, 5x5 inches 

 about. Flower very small, 

 greenish inflorescence. Fruit 

 a capsule f inch, three black 

 seeds inside. In Sierra Leone 

 English " Pig - nuts," or 

 " Physic nuts." Seeds contain 

 much oil. (^Jatwpha curcas — 

 Eaj)1iorhiaceae.) 



A shrub. Leaf lance-shaped, very 

 pointed, 5i x 2^ inches, 

 whorled. Flower a much- 

 branched cyme of minute 

 monopetalous white flowers, 

 with green calyx. 



Lit. Little njala. A shrub. Leaf 

 compound, odd pinnate. Fruit 

 i inch seed vessel, many grow 

 vertically together like a bunch 

 of bananas. Flower tin}-, 

 monopetalous, irregular. The 

 shrub has a. pleasant smell 



