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Vernac. names—Abikolo (Lagos, MacGregor);  Arojoku 
uns. Millson). 
Nun River (Niger), N Ed bene ions distributed in 
Troppal Africa and other warm cou 
tattooing the natives rub the juicy green leaves over skin 
after panchoo ng, to es the Fer indelible s bluish- 
ndia). 
bats Dai 34 ft. high, on sandbanks Nun River (Mann, 
No. 470, 1860, Herb. Kew), Shai Plains, Gold Coast (Johnson, 
No. 570, 1900, Herb. Kew), in wet places, Nupe (Barter, No. 865, 
Herb. Kew), in UN and marshy places, Angola (Monteiro, 
biennial or even persist for three ye. Loanda (Hiern, ‘Cat. 
Welw. Afr. Pl. iii. p. 575), a common weed. 
Ref.— —'* Eoliptá ne " in Dict. Econ. Prod. India, Watt, iii. 
1890, pp. 201-202. 
ASPiLiA, Thouars. 
Aspilia latifolia, O. § H.; Fl. Trop. Afr. III. p. 379. 
Vernac. name.—Yun-yun (Yoruba, Millson).—Haemorrhage 
plant. 
Lagos, Old Calabar, Yoruba, Lokoja, Niger River, and also 
collected (by Wo gi Acora, and (by Sebweinfurth) i in Djurland 
and Niam-Niam Lan 
The pounded je Jed flowers applied to a wound are said to 
stop the bleeding in a few minutes and to heal the wound rapidly; 
used in Liberia for e purpose (Moloney, For. W. Afr. p. 374; 
Holmes, Pharm. Journ. [3] viii. 1878, p. 563; Christy, New 
Comm. Pl. and noe No 2, 1878, and 'No. 3, 1880). 
A more or less hispid herb, 134 ft. high, Old Calabar River 
(Mann, No. 2325, 1863, Herb. Kew J- 
Hezrraxraus, Linn. 
Helianthus annuus, Linn. ; Sp. Pl. (1753) p. 904. 
An annual plant, usually single “fi der stems 6 ft. or so high. 
Flower heads, disc-like, 10-20 in. oss, yellow; stalk a foot 
or so from the top up to Sin. in diam., pihy (half an inch or so) in 
the centre. Seeds 2 in. long + in. 'broa up to $ in. by $ 1n., 
rhomboidal, narrowing to a broad point, set in small leafy n 
black, white, black and white striped or brown and white stri 
Ill.—Reneaulme, Spec. Hist. Pl. Paris, t. 83; Lam. Enc " 
t. 706; Velloso, Fl. Alogr. Brazil, p. 207; Bilberg, Ekonom. Bot. 
1.9; Abh. Senck. i. t. 6; Rchb. Fl. Germ. xvi. t. 940, f. 1; cot 
Man. Grasses, N. Zealand, i. t. 28; Wiley, U US. Dept. Agric. Di 
