343 
GAMOPETALAE. 
RUBIACEAE. 
SARCOCEPHALUS, Afzel. 
Sarcocephalus esculentus, Afze/.; Fl. Trop. Afr. III. p. 38. 
var. eu-esculentus, /7avil. Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxiii. 1897-98, p. 26. 
Ill.—Hort. Trans. v. (1824) t. 18; Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. xxxii. 
ad 
-PL i 86, : 
secondary bark), t. 2 (fl. leaf and adult bark); ern Fl. 
Guin. Franç. t. 57; Thompson, Col. Rep. Misc. No. 66, 1910, 
t. 18. 
Vernac. names.—Tafasiya TESES ae E Ewe Egbesi or 
Agbesi (Oyo, S. Nigeria, Im . No. 3, 1909, Herb. Kew); 
Opepe (Oshun Reserve, Col. er Ann. Ne. 695, 1911, p. 12); 
Egbesi (Lagos, MacGregor, Phillips, Dawodu); Agbassy, Doi, 
Dundaka, Wuacruli (Sierra Leone, "Scott Elliot) [Doy (Bassa), 
Amelliki (Sierra veio. Heckel & Schlagdenhauffen, Win- 
terbottom|; Doundaké (Sousou, Heckel, Pobéguin, Christy); 
Jadali (Toucouleur, Heckel); Tétéré cone Pobéguin); Viku 
(Congo, Chere lier); Kisia or Kishia Ekusawa (Gold usi 
Christy); A dons (W. rica,  Pharsi: Journ. vue 
. 279).—African or Negro Peach, African Fig, African Quinine, 
Quinquina africain, Kina du Rio-Nunez, Yellow Fever Root 
Ado River, Lagos (Millen, No. 132, Herb. Kew); Laces 
(MacGregor, No. 28, 1901, Dawodu, No. 23, 1901, Herb. Kew); 
Nupe (Barter, No. 1244, 1858, Herb. Kew) ; Shaki Road, Lagos 
(Denton, No. 14, 1900, Herb. Kew); Oyo, S. Nigeria (Imp. Inst. 
No. 3, 1909, Herb. Kew); Sierra Leone, Gold Coast and West 
Africa in general. 
var. Russegeri, Havil. Journ, Linn. Soc. xxxiii. 1897-98, p. 26. 
[S. Russegeri, Kotschy; Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 39.] 
Ill nage Reliq. Kotschyanae, t. 33 (S. Russegeri). 
ac. names.—Nou (Sudan, Broun); Mutama (Lunyoro, 
Ver 
Dane Daw 
Acholi, Uganda (Dawe, No. 836, 1905, Herb. Kew), Niam-Niam, 
Bahr-el-Ghaz aL Sudan (Broun, Herb. Kew), Djur-land 
(Schweinfurth, No. 3746, Herb. Kew) and Madi e and 
Grant), oe confined to the fe interior of West and 
Central Africa 
Fruit ble tat of an apple, size 2 in. in diameter (Grant, 
Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 1875, p. 81, S. ee fragrant and 
, Herb. Kew, 
S. Pe. flavour like a strawberry, t bos h Tue odour is 
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