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Cultivated 5» India for its edible fruit (Dict. Econ. Prod. India). 
A shrub, 8 ft. high, flowers green, Idda (Barter, Herb. Kew); 
small tree, ‘Bari Country (Dawe, Herb. Kew) ; habit of coffee plant 
(Fl. Trop. Afr. l.c.) ; in flower December on the Lower Buzi, Chiba- 
bava, Gaind (Swynnerton, Journ. Linn. Soc. xl. 1911, p. 91). 
e native name '' Munjiro " is applied to several erit of 
Vangueria, viz. (1) V. esculenta, S. Moore, Journ. Linn. 
the ‘‘ Chirinda Medlar,” or the common *' Munjiro of the Soit 5 
—in lera September-October, fruit edible, bright gamboge in 
colour, falling from the trees in March a nd April, in Chirinda 
Forest, 3700-4000 ft. (Journ. Tak Soc. 1.c.). Fo) y. apiculata, 
Schum . in Engl. Pflan. Ost. Afr. C. p. 384, the ** Small White 
eed common in long grass on the outskirts of Crimis 
CRATERISPERMUM, Benth. 
Craterispermum laurinum, Benth. ; Fl. Trop. Afr. III. p. 160. 
Ill.—Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 1235. 
Vernac. names.—Allam or Alum (Sierra Leone, Schuchardt, 
Hummel). 
Widely distributed in West Africa—Senegambia, Sierra Leon 
Gold Coast, Li Bagroo River, extending to Gazaland aud 
Beira in East A 
Bark beaten up E grass gives a yellow dye, River Bagroo 
Mann, Herb. Kew) used for dyeing clothes, Sierra Leone (Scott - 
Elliot, Herb. Kew; Hummel, Mus. Kew; Fl. Trop. Afr. iii. p. 161; 
Moloney, For. W. Afr. p. 369); leaves used for similar purpose, 
Sierra Leone (Schuchardt, Mus. Kew 
A shrub (Mann, l.c.), 5 ft. mee: Gold Coast (T.W. Brown, Herb. 
Kew); found in open woods at Beira, flowering October, fruiting 
December, altitude 4000 ft. near "Chirinda (Journ. Linn. Soc. xl. 
1911, p. 94); very common in Sierra Leone (Scott Elliot, Col. Rep. 
Misc. No. 3, 1893, p. 31). 
Correa, Linn. 
Coffea arabica, Linn; Fl. Trop. Afr. III. p. 180. 
Ill.—Weinmann, Phytanthoza Icon. ii. t. 279, f.b.; Linné, 
Amoenitates Acad. vi. p. 160; Ellis, Monogr. Coffee tt. 1-2 
(at end of work) ; Gaertner, Fruct. Sem. Pl. i. t. 25; Lam. Encycl. 
t. 160; Plenck, Ic. t. 130; Tuss. Ant. E t. 18; Bot. Mag. t. 1303; 
Ha ayne, Darst. Beschr. Gewüchse, ix. t. 32; Ness von e 
Plant. Medic. Düsseld. t. 257; Desc. Ant. viii. t. 564; . B6. 
Nat. t. 99; Drapiez, Herb. Amat. de Fleur. iii. i ‘206: bol, “Sert, 
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