48 NATURAL HISTORY VOCABULARY 



Climbing Pi-ants 



Bowi (bowi) .... 



Buli-yeyako (buli- 

 yeyakoi) or Tawa- 

 b e m b e (t a w a- 

 bembe) or Yoniba- 

 gbole (yoniba-gbole) 



Dauwa (dauwe) . 



Fori (fori) .... 

 Gbongeya (gbongeyei) 



91 X 91 



Leaf is 

 in the 



Dawu (dawui) 



Fokuln-bi (fokuln-bi) . xV 



Hoke-yuwu (hoke-yuwi) A 



A vine, ? rubber producing 



A vine. Opposite leaves 

 inches on long stalk, 

 pounded and drunk 

 early morning " for the belly." 

 (Ngeyako = runner ; bembe = 

 encii'cle ; gbole = drink). 



A very big vine. Leaves opposite, 

 3| X IJ inches, smooth. Leaf 

 stalk joins stem with a nodule. 

 Four-sided bean 5 inches long, 

 three big black seeds inside. 

 (? Duparquetia sp. — Legumin- 

 osae.) 



A vine. The leaves crushed, put 

 into a pool, kill the fish. (In 

 Temne " putukulu.") 

 climber with a woody stem. 

 Leaf 4x2 inches, stiff, smooth, 

 lance-shaped. Axillary ten- 

 drils bearing leaves. Fruit 

 yellow, ^ inch long in clusters, 

 each with a short stem, kernel 

 inside. The root is scraped 

 and put into Nduvu wine to 

 impi'ove its strength. It is 

 not apparently put into oil- 

 palm wine, 

 creeper with leaf like that of 

 " kpuli." 



A thorny climber, 

 inches, smooth, 

 base. Leaves 

 separate stalks, 

 rope.) 



climber. Leaf palmate, five 

 leafiets G inches long. Flower 

 a bell about 1;^ inch long, 

 mauve. Youn<; leaves are 



A 



Leaves 3x3 



all veins from 



far apart on 



("Ngeyei" = 



