315 
also distinguished by these characters from the Asiatic and 
Malayan M. os tien L., with which it was confused in the Flora 
of pes Afri 
Ver: or T (Yoruba, Millson, 
Malonea | Bo (Oloke Meji. Foster Guigo (Princes Island, 
Welwitse ch); Neg, ar, ( dc e stat d al Par e 
Gold Codét to Mira and in North East Tropical Africa; con- 
reis to the Southern parts of Nigeria—Yoruba, Lagos (Millen 
. 106, Herb. Kew; Millson, Herb. Kew); Abeokuta (Irving, 
No. 70, Barter, No. 3388, Herb. Kew), Onitsha (Barter, Nos. 1234, 
1753, Herb. Kew); U wet (MacLeod, Herb. Kew); Inkum, Ekom 
Cross River (Holland, No. 240, Herb. Kew). 
Used by the natives in dysentery and fever, Onitsha and 
Fernando Po (Barter, l.c.), tonic leaf, Yoruba (Millson, l.c. ); 5 
yellow dye is obtained from the tree Uwet (MacLeod, E 
The timber is used for building huts in Golungo Alto dion 
Cat. Welw. Afr. Pl. ii. p. 492), for canoes, planks, posts, etc., 
resisting ravages of termites, Yoruba illson, Kew Bull. 1891, 
grained. 
Psycnorria, Linn. 
Psychotria Ipecac - n Stokes, Bot. Mat 
Ah ont nr eiii . Rich., Hist. Nat. ds. 1890). a. 
shrub, about 18 in. high. Roots more or less creeping 
okati, annulated, in commercial specimens, about i in. in 
diameter. Stem erect, woody, sometimes branchin ves 
apone; oval or elliptic, somewhat acuminate. Inflorescence a 
capitulum ; flowers white, an poe set in a 4-leaved involuer 
. 6; Nees von Esenbeck, Plant Medic. Düsseld. t. 258; 
Giumpel, Abbild. Beschr. t. 43; "Woodville, s. Bot. iii. (1832), 
t. 274; Steph. and Ch. Med. Bot. t. 62; Bot. Mag. t. 4063; Burnett, 
PL Util. iv. t. 1064; Pereira, Mat, Med. ii. (1853) p. 1591, I 321; 
Berg. and Schmidt, Darst. Beschr. Pharm. ii. t. 15e; Trans. Roy. 
: . Soc. LX. 
. 4; Rev. Hort. 1873, p- 219; Bentl. and Trimen, Med. Pl. t. 145; 
Kóhler, Med. Pflan. i.; Zippel, Ausl. Handels Nahrpfl. t. 26 
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