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Vernac. name.—Kan-Kan (Yoruba, Millson, Moloney). 
Eppah; Lagos; Yoruba; the Cameroons and Uganda. 
A decorative plant. ; 
A shrub, 9 ft. high, deciduous, Eppah (Barter, Herb. Kew); 
30 ft. high, in the Cameroons, altitude 2000-3000 ft. (Mann, 
Herb. Kew); 10 ft. in Toro, Uganda, altitude 4000 ft. (Dawe, 
b. Kew) . ; 
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Randia maculata, DC.; Fl. Trop. Afr. III. p. 96. 
Vernac. names.—Buje (Yoruba, Millson, Moloney); Buji 
(Sierra Leone, Scott Elliot); Buje dudu, Asogbodum (Lagos, 
Foster); Gongoresi (Lagos, Dawodu). 
Lagos; Yoruba, Abeokuta, Oshogbo; Nupe. Also in Fernando 
Po and in Uganda at Entebbe. 
A dye is obtained from the fruit used by all interior tribes for 
tattooing the face blue, Yoruba (Millson, Kew, Bull. 1891, p. 208); 
for tattooing, Sierra Leone (Scott Elliot, Col. Rep. Misc. No. 3, 
1893, p. 51). 
The plant is very decorative. A shrub 10-15 ft. (Fl. Trop. 
Afr. Le.), 4-5 ft. Lagos (Foster, Herb. Kew); found at 3900 ft. 
though not common at Entebbe (Dawe, Herb. Kew). 
Randia malleifera, Benth.; Fl. Trop. Afr. IIT. p. 98. 
Ill.—Bot. Mag. t. 4307 (Gardenia malleifera); Fl. des Serres, 
t. 249 (Gardenia malleifera). 
Vernac. names.—Buje-nla — (Oloke-Meji, Foster); Blippo 
(Mombuttu, Schweinfurth), ; 
Lagos; Insofan (Cross River); Agbemia (Niger), and widely 
distributed in West Africa from Sierra Leone to the Bagroo river, 
extending to the Sudan and Niam-Niam, and the Congo Region 
(Mombuttu). 
The inky sap is used by the Niam-Niam and Mombuttu tribes 
to dye their skin (Schweinfurth, Heart of Africa, i. p. 199; FI. 
Trop. Afr. l.c.; Moloney, For. W. Afr. p. 367), and the juice of 
the fruits is used for a similar purpose and also as ink by the 
natives in the region of the eee thas 
A handsome decorative plant. A puberulous shrub 8-15 ft. 
high or a small tree, Niam-Niam (Schweinfurth, l.c.); [flowers, 
brownish-white very fragrant, Agbemia, Niger (Barter); 3 ft. 
Oloke-Meji (Foster); flowers white, dirty yellow outside, except 
