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Propagated from seeds ; transplanted when large enough to handle 
€onveniently to permanent places. A foot apart in alternate rows 
is recommended by Medley Wood (l.c. p. 17) for C. grandiflora, 
the plants of which, trimmed often, interweave their tough thorny 
branches and make an impenetrable barrier against stock. 
' PICRALIMA, Pierre. 
Picralima Klaineana, Prerre; Fl. Trop. Afr. IV. Sect. 1, p. 96. 
we —Hook. Ic. Pl. tt. 2745-2746. 
gege, S. et (Foster, No. 220, Herb. Kew), Old PUE 
eut bb, Fl. Tro op. Afr. 1.c.) ; also on the Gold Coast, Ambas Bay 
Extensively used i the natives, Gold pay in place of quinine 
perisse, Son & Co. Herb. and . Kew 
A tree 30-80 ft. high. Wood light set in ndun takes a 
good polish; weight per cubic foot 44 Ib. of a specimen in the 
Museum, Kew, from Ambas Bay Mann. No. 18). 
PLEIOCARPA, Benth. 
Pleiocarpa mutica, Benth.; Fl. Trop. Afr. IV. Sect. 1, p. 98. 
Ill.—Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 1181; Engl. and Prantl, Pflan. iv. part. 2, 
1. 52 C-D; Bot. Mag. t. 8343; Gard. Chron. AE 22, 1911, p. 242. 
Cross ios (Johnston, Herb. Kew, 1888); Old Calabar River 
(Mann, No. 2277, Herb. Kew); Adiabo, Old Cala bar (Holland, 
No. 106, 1898, Herb. Kew); also in the Cameroons. 
An ornamental plant introduced to European horticulture from 
Old Calabar, remarkable for the profusion of Ld small white 
flowers ue in clusters in the axils of the leav 
` Grows freely in stove in this ANT iud ae as a shrub 
5. ) ft. high, ‘Old Calabar River (Mann, l.c.). 
THEVETIA, Linn. 
Thevetia neriifolia, Juss. ex Steud. Nom. ed. 2, ii. p. 680. 
shrub or small tree. Stem sometimes reachin ng 6 
diameter. Leaves alternate, narrow, 4—6 in. long, sessi et 
fleshy skin is removed disclosing a hard light brown nut 
13 by à by 2; this divided into two along a deep groove at the base 
looks in section like two right angled triangles, with the 
hypotenuse somewhat rounded ; two seeded. 
Zu. inp eck: Burm. i. t. 18 (Cerbera foliis, etc.) ; Jacq. Icon. 
Select Stirp, Am. t. 34 (C. Thevetia); Ruiz Lopez, and Pavon, 
1. Peruv. ii. t. 153, f.b. (C. Thevetia); e Sc. Nat. t. 56; 
Bot. Mag. t. 2309 (C. is n Ant. iv. t. 1 (C. thevetia) ; 
Mart. FL Bras. vi. part 1, 10, T 2 (f. e fruit); Cooke, Oil 
Seeds s Oils, India, p. 36, f. 19 (fruit) ; Journ. Bombay N.H. 
Soc E 
Verna mes.—Cabalonga (Porto Rico, Cook and Co lins); 
Ahouai (Antilles, Tussac); Ahouai (Guyane, Heckel); Marathi 
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