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Vernac. names—Tsumbi-lumi (M'Chopes, Zuvalla, Sim); 
Fantsa (Mozambique, Stewart); Malulo (W. Trop. Africa 
Monteiro); Molülu (Pungo Andongo, Welwitsch).—Bitters Tree 
of the Gambia (Brown Lester, Kew Bull. 1891, p- 272); Quinine 
des Noirs of French Guinea (Pobéguin, L’ Agric. prat. pays 
chauds, xi. 2, 1911, p. 236). 
iger, and widely distributed in West oe, 
Sierra Leone, etc. ; S.W. Africa; East Africa, e ete. 
z ound as a tree BI ft. Mti north and south banks of the 
mbia (Kew Bull. l.c.); a shrub 6-8 ft. high, on stony hills at 
NA 2000 ft. altitude (Cazengo), or a shrub-like little tree in hot 
stony thickets (Pungo Andongo), flowering and fruiting May and 
June, Angola, and further described by Welwitsch as remarkabl 
ornamental and well worth se hg (Hiern, 1.c. pp. 529, 530). 
ErrPruawToPus, Linn. 
Elephantopus scaber, Linn.; Fl. Trop. Afr. III. p. 299. 
Ill.—Dillenius, Hort. Eltham. t. 106 (F. v bera gtr 
Rheede, Hort. Mal. x. t. 7; Gaertner, Fruct. Sem. Pl nu. t 166: 
Lam. Encycl. t. 718; Wight. le. Pl. Ind. D$. in. € 1086. 
Vernac. names.—Tambakombako (Madagascar, PTR Herbe 
de la jouissance (Heckel).—Prickly leaved elephant’s foot. 
Niger (Barter, No. 1972); wr vig iate No. 206, 1905); 
Okuni, Cross River (Holland, No. 169, 1900); widely distributed 
in W. Africa, and a common weed throughout the Tropics. 
Plant possesses equos and febrifuge properties, Madagascar 
(Heckel, Ann. L’I Col. Marseille, i. 1903, p. 151); various 
medicinal uses attributed to the decoctions of the root and leaves 
in India (Dict. Econ. Prod. India; reed For. W. Afr. p. 372). 
0 ft. 
Karague (Gr fent Tul Linn. Soc. xxix y^ ws a perennial 
herb growing in a caespitose manner, with the habit of the genus, 
FOE (Hiern, Cat. Welw. Afr. Pl. iii. p. 540). 
AGERATUM, Linn. 
Ageratum conyzoides, Linn.; Fl. Trop. Afr. III. p. 300. 
Ill.—Gaertner, Fruct. Bu: PL. e 169: Schk. Handb. t. 238; 
Lam. Encycl. t. 672; Hooker, Exotic, Flora, 1, t. I5; Bot. Mag. 
t. 2524 (A. meaicanum) ; Wight. Illust. t. 134, fx 
