345 
Fruit ripening in October, Nupe (Barter, l.c.) in F i ger at 
Madi (Grant, Trans. Lin n. Soc . xxix, p. 81, S. Russegeri). 
Kef.—'' Doundake Barks," in New Commercial Plants n 
Drugs. Christy, No. ea PP: ee “ Dou inda ike and i 
à 
Ju E ane m and Durs ‘No. 9, 188 86, p. 7-9. s 
kanchie," in Pharm. Journ. is x. 1900, ‘Some West res 
Drugs," by J. Slinger Ward, p. 280. 
Wara Korth. 
Mitragyna africana, Korth. Fl. Trop. ee III. p. 40. 
Ill.—Usteri, Delectus Opusc. Bot 3 (Uncaria inermis); 
Hook. Fl. Nigrit. t. 37 (Éiissonputé. Aum), Hook. Ic. Pl. 
t. 787 (Nauclea platanocarpa). 
Vernac. names.—Gagayah or Gigeya (N. Nigeria, Imp. Inst. 
No. 36726, Herb. Kew); Kratchi (Gold Coast, Anderso on); Kawin? 
(Gold Coast, Rothschild) : Diou, Khoti (French Guinea, 
kh 
Attah (Vogel, No. 40 Herb. Kew), DE (Barter, No. 1189, 
Herb. Kew), Yola (Shaw, No. 62, Herb. Kew), Bornu (Elliott, 
No. 120, Herb. une EOS (Elliott, No. 5, Lc.) and widely 
distributed in West A 
The wood is used = carving, and Mussulman writing boards. 
are made of it, Nupe (Barter, Herb. Kew), for eg rad etc. 
(Gold Coast, Mus ew). À specimen in the Kew Museum has 
specific gravity 0:594 = 37 lb. per cubic foot. 
The leaves are used medicinally in agate Guinea (Pobéguin, 
me Med. du Guin. Franc. L’ Agric. prat. pays chauds, xi. 
42). The NEE is aed medicinally i in Cererea] cs Yola 
‘Shay; Herb. Kew); yields a yellow dye (Pobéguin 
rb. K 
a tree, 40 ft., Yola (Shaw, Herb. Kew), a shrub or small tree, 
15 feet high, oe common isolated and in river woods on allu- 
pma of the Niger, Farana, Sierra Leone (Scott Elliot, Herb. 
Kew), and as a tree characteristic of the swamps in the dry o open 
country, Gold Coast (Thompson, Col. Rep. Misc. No. 66, 1910, 
p- 72). 
Mitragyna macrophylla, Hiern, Fl. Trop. Afr. III. p. 41. 
Ill.—Haviland, in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxii. 1897-98, t. 4, 
ff. 1-10 (Anal. of fl. fr. seed, etc.); dris "Lem Veg. Util. 
L'Afriq. Trop. om Fasc. vi. p. 352, f 4T. 
Vern Yaya or Sawa (Gold Coast, 
T ne, Bed work aril (Gold Coast, Armitage); 
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