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A native of Modo, South America, and the West edie 
Islands: common in Nigeria—everywhere from the sea to Borgu 
er No. 1030, Herb. Kew), Oloke-Meji ie No. 407, 1908, 
b. Kew), Old Calabar (Holland, No. 20, 1897, Herb. Ke w)— 
Mid spread in Tropical Africa, and all hot deus FU. 
A decoction of the plant, used for ‘‘ craw-craw "' externally and 
for fever internally, Yoruba (Millson, Kew Bull. 1891, p. 215). 
Marseille, i ), in Madagascar (bid 1903 
pp 89-90), and in Sierra Leone os Elliot, Col. Rep. Mise. 
0. 3, j is ; No. 9, 1906, Kew), found to contain a 
minute quantity of a crystalline alksloid to which the physio- 
Eos activity of the drug may be due (Col. Rep. Ann. No. 601 
1909, p. 43). 
An annual plant increased by seeds or cuttings, easily grown 
in light rich soil, described so long ago as 1823 in reference to 
home gardens as “ well deserving of a place in every stove; it 
flowers during a yamine period of the summer and even the 
severities of winter witness the expansion of its pretty blue 
blossoms "' (Hooker, Exotic Flora, t. 15). There are se vue 
dwarf varieties — ‘“‘ Cupid," ‘‘Imperial Dwarf," ‘Que 
etc., used for bedding purposes in European gardens, 
Mikaxra, Willd. : 
Mikania scandens, Willd.; Fl. Trop. Afr. III. p. 301. 
1ll.—Jacq. Ic. Pl. Rar. i. t. 169 (Eupatorium scandens) ; Desc. 
Ant. vii. t. 484 (£ Satori 'scandens); Goodale, Wild F1. 
America, t. 34. 
Vernac. names.—lyawa (Yoruba, da US Nore (French 
Guinea, Farmar); Wedwedwi (Zambesi, Peters, Meller); 
Batako (Fiji, PH Guaco (Mexico, Ramirez).—Climbing 
Hemp-weed (Goodale). 
oe Gate uu River (Niger), Old Calabar, in S. Niger 
Sokoto, in N. ON and throughout Tropical A frion; 
Introduced lon. Mal 
Found as a je a on river boss. Nu Barter, No. 186, 
Herb. Kew), a climbing herbaceous eed 60 ft., Nun River 
