380 
Vernonia Kotschyana, Schultz; Fl. Trop. Afr. III. p. 289. 
Vernac. name.—Domashi (Katagum, Dalziel). 
Katagum; found also in Nile land at Senaar, Kordofan, in 
Abyssinia a Bongoland. 
A bitter medicine, Katagum (Dalziel, No. 173, 1907, Herb. 
Kew). 
Vernonia nigritiana, O. § H.; Fl. Trop. Afr. III. p. 288. 
Ill ——Heckel, Archiv. de Physiol 1888, t. 1; Christy, e 
Comm. Pl. and Drugs, No. 11, 1889, p. 5. 
‘Vernac. names.—Batjitjor or Batiator (Senegambia, Heckel and 
Schlagdenhauffen) ; Batjitor ciae Leone, Scott Elliot) ; Jubu 
amba (Gambia, Brown Lester). 
Abeokuta ; Oloke-Meji; Niger and W. Africa generally. 
Used medicinally, Sierra Leone (Scott Elliot, Col. Rep. Misc. 
No. 3, 1893, P- 50). Root described as a substitute for 
a sogre e Ipecacuanha); pounded and boiled, 
en as a purgative, Gambia (Brown Lester, Kew Bull. 1891, 
p- 272); an infusion used as a iom etic, etc., in small doses, or as an 
emetic in large doses, French Guinea (Pobéguin, L' Agric. prat. 
pays chauds, xi. part 2, 1911, p. 236); sold in Senegambia, 
supposed to have febrifuge, emetic, anti-haemorrhagic and anti- 
dysenteric properties (Pharm. Journ. [3] xix. 1889, p. 578). 
“ Vernonin,’ ”? the glucoside, obtained from it is said to resemble 
digitalin in its action upon the heart (l.c. 
Found as an erect woody plant 1—21 ft. (Fl. Trop. Afr. L.e.). 
KRef.—''Sur la racine du Batjitjor (Vernonia ,nigritiana) de 
l’Afrique tropicale, nouveau pum du coeur," Heckel and 
Schlagdenhauffen, in Archives de Physiologie, No. 6, Aug. 15th, 
888, Tu 1-36; act in New Comm. Pl. and Drugs, hristy, 
No. 11, 1889, pp: 5-8. 
Vernonia Perrottetii, Schl.; Fl. Trop. Afr. III. p. 272. 
Ill.—Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix (1875) t. 56, f. A. 
Vernac. name.—Kwiajupong (Sierra Leone, Scott Elliot), 
Niger to Northern Nigeria and other parts of Upper Guinea, 
and the Nile Land. 
In Unyoro and Madi the natives mix the ashes of this plant 
and those of. Hygrophila spinosa, T. And., with water and extract 
salt Mus Hán aL Vnus apaoimen from Madi, Hes e 
s. Linn. Soc P 
An annual plant, 1-2 ft. Mab. 
. Vernonia senegalensis, Less., Fl. Trop. Afr. III. p. 283. 
Ill.—Sim, For. Fl. and For. Res. Port. E. Afr. t. 73 f. A; De 
Wildeman, Études Fl. Bangala, p. 116. 
