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white tips, Insofan (Holland); a large shrub, especially in dark 
localities near streams, Khor Telu, Sudan (Broun); a large shrub, 
Bahr-el-Ghazal (Brown); a shrubby tree 20 ft. in swamps, Akim, 
son); climber, Sierra Leone (Turner), common 
up to 3000 ft. Sierra Leone (Scott Elliot) Herb. Kew]. 
Randia nilotica, Stapf in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxvii. (1906) p. 519. 
LR. dumetorum, Hiern, Fl. Trop. Afr. III. p. 94, non Lam.] 
Ill.—Schweinf. F1. Aethiop. t. 3 f. 1 (22. dumetorum); Fiori, 
Piante Legnose Dell'Eritrea, p. 359, f. 170 (R. dumetorum); 
Agric. Col. 1911, Suppl. p. 136 (R. dumetorum). 
Vernac. name.—Barbaji (Katagum, Dalziel). 
Katagum (Dalziel, No. 298, 1908, Herb. Kew), Nile Region, 
extending to Brit. E. Africa. 
Fruit said to act as a fish poison (Fl. Trop. Afr. Lc.) and an 
antidote to arrow poison, Katagum (Dalziel, Lex 
[A shrub 10-15 ft., Nile Province, Uganda (Dawe, No. 882, 
1905); a spiny shrub, Sudan (Muriel) Herb. Kew]. 
z Randia octomera, Benth. ; Fl. Trop. Afr. III. p. 98. 
Ill.—Bot. Mag. t. 5410 (Gardenia octomera). 
Calabar, collected by Rev. W. C. Thomson (1863) and Rev. 
H. Goldie (1888). 
A decorative plant. The cultivation of this and all the Randias 
mentioned above is comparatively easy, from seed or cuttings, 
grown in moderately light soil rich in leaf mould or humus, and a 
fair proportion of sand. 
GARDENIA, Ellis. 
Gardenia ternifolia, Thunb. in Schum. et Thonn. Beskr. Guin. 
Pl. p. 147. 
Tree or shrub 6-15 ft. high, spreading, glabrous branches. 
Leaves oblanceolate or obovate, sessile, subacute or rarely rotun- 
date, cuneate at the base 11-31 in. long. 3-11 in. broad; sub- 
each side 7-11 oblique. Flowers white or yellow, tubular. Fruit 
in section, oblong-elliptic 2-22 in. long, 21 lin. diam. Seed sub- 
globose, yellow, about 2 lin. diameter (see Stapf & Hutchinson, 
Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxviii. (1909) p. 425 for fuller description). 
Vernac. names.—Gauden Kura (Katagum, Dalziel); Orumon or 
Oruwon (Oloke-Meji, Dodd). 
Oloke-Meji (Dodd, No. 401, 1908, Herb. Kew); Nupe (Barter, 
No. 1205, Baikie (1862) Herb. Kew); Zungeru (Elliott, No. 30, 
1904, Herb. Kew); Kuka, Bornu (Vogel, No. 92, Herb. Kew); Lake 
Chad and Bornu (Talbot, No. 271, 1911, Herb. Kew); Katagum 
(Dalziel, No. 162, 1908, and No. 161, fruit). : 
Fruit edible, but coarse (Dalziel, 1.c.). . 
