959 
Nupe, a EC Lagos, and found also in Sierra 
Leone, Nile Province, PEN Togoland, Angola, Upper Chari, 
Cameroons, Nyasaland, ete 
À medicinal plant, Sierra Leone (Scott Elliot, Col. Rep. Misc. 
No. 3, 1893, p. 56); bark used as a febrifuge, Sierra Leone 
(Winterbottom, Acct. Sierra Leone, ii. (1803) p. 243; Fl. Trop. 
Afr. l.c.; Moloney, For. W. Afr. p. 367. Wood, brittle (Fl. Trop. 
Afr. l.c.; Grant Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 1875, n. 82), hard, 
498). In Madi Sen used by the 
natives to fumigate their bark- cloths, and powdered to make a 
pomade for rubbing their bodies (Grant, Lej. 
A small tree, Zungeru and Kontagora (Dalziel, Herb. Kew), 
8-15 ft. high with spreading or sub-erect branches, in hilly, 
wooded, rather dry places, mountains of Mongolo, fruit ripe 
without flowers, and almost leafless in September, Zena do 
Golungo, Angola; leaves deciduous at the time of fruiting (J uly), 
at Catomba (Hiern, l.c. pp. 437, 438); a tree 20-30 ft. common 
15 ft. lona cream-coloured, very fragrant, N u e (Barter, Herb. 
Kew), Nile Province, Uganda awe, Herb. a in fruit at 
Madi in December (Grant, Trans. Linn. Soc. l.c.). 
Ref.—'* African Bark," in An Account of the Native Africans, 
Sierra Leone, Winterbottom, il. pp. 243-253 (London, 1803), 
chiefly medicina 
OLDENLANDIA, Plumier. 
Oldenlandia Heynei, Oliv.; Fl. Trop. Afr. III. p. 59. 
Vernac. names.—Igbale Odan, Apikan (Lagos, Dawodu). 
Niger, Sierra Leone, and found also in India, Natal and 
Madagascar 
Used medicinally for children, Lagos (Dawodu, No. 33, Herb. 
Kew). 
An aot? or decumbent annual, 1-2 ft. (Fl. Trop. Afr. l.c.), 
a bushy plant 6-8 in. high, the stems growing flatly on the 
ground, in plantain groves Uganda and Karagwe (Grant, Trans. 
Linn. Soc. xxix. 1875, p. 84). 
Oldenlandia senegalensis, Hiern; Fl. Trop. Afr. III. p. 56. 
Ill.—Endl. Atakta Bot. t. 23 (Kohautia senegalensis). 
Vernac. name.—Temeng-Temeng (Gambia, Brown Lester). 
Niger, Gambia, Senegambia, etc. 
