391 
(Parsons, Herb. Kev). Has been found also in Angola, Zanzibar, 
etc., and occurs in India. 
Used medicinally for childrén, Lagos (Dawodu, Herb. Kew). 
An erect glabrous annual 1-4 ft. high. 
nchifolia is a common tropical weed, used in India as a 
pa and for various medicinal pe vet in China the 
leaves are eaten in salads (Moloney, For. W. Afr. p. 375). 
Senecio, Linn. 
Senecio abyssinicus, Sch.; Fl. Trop. Afr. III. p. 410. 
Vernac. name.—Amunimuye (Oloke-Meji, Dodd). 
Lagos; Oloke Meji. Also in Mombuttu Land and Abyssinia. 
Leaves used medicinally, Oloke-Meji (Dodd, No. 433, 1908, 
Herb. Kew). 
An erect annual about 1-1 ft. high. eus near banks of 
Ogun River, Lagos, as a weed i n yam ground (Millen, No. 121, 
Herb. Kew), e: an altitude of 3900 ft. Entebbe (Brown, No. 15, 
1904, Herb. Kew). 
Senecio baberka, Hutchinson in Kew Bulletin, 1913, p. 180. 
A herb up to 1} in. high; stems simple or sparingly branched, 
erect, glabrous. Leaves sessile, lanceolate or oblanceolate, 
apex obtuse, narrowed to the base, 2-13 in. long, 11-4 lin. 
broad, eiii thinly chartaceous, glabrous, pale green, 3-5 
nerved from the. base, nerves sub-parallel with the margin, promi- 
nent on a sides. Heads yellow, “solitary, long, peduncu- 
late, radiate, oblong in outline, about 2 i g and in diameter; 
peduncles 13-6 in. long, not ieee glabrous. Involucral 
bracts in one series, free, linear or linear-oblong, obtusely 
acuminate, + in. long, coriaceous, with membranous margins, 
glabrous except the puberulous tips of the margins. Receptacle 
slightly concave, smooth.  Ray-flowers, fertile, few. Disk- 
flowers numerous. Pappus white, barbellate. Achenes linear- 
oblong, 21 lin. long, ribbed, the ribs shortly whitish pubescent. 
Vernac. name.—Baberka (Katagum, lagen 
Nigeria, Katagum District (Dalziel, No. 390, 1907, Herb. Kew). 
A bitter medicine. 
CENTAUREA, Linn. 
Centaurea Merc M. [C. Calcitrapa, Oliv. & Hiern, Fl. 
Trop. Afr. iii. p. 437, non Linn. . 
Vernac. name. oper (Katagum, Dalziel). 
x Eun No. 176, 1907, Herb. Kew); Kouka, Bornu 
(E. Vogel, No. 17 and 51, 1856, Herb. Kew); Bornu Eliott, 
No. 129, Herb. Kew), and i in Senegambia, Nile La nd, etc. 
A common camel food, Katagum (Dalziel, Le.; Grant, Trans. 
Linn. Soc. xxix. p. 101). 
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