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(India, Kirtikar); Pila-Kanér (Hindustani, Dymock, Watt); 
Kaneer (United Prov. India, Ann. Rep. Bd. Sci. Advice, India, 
1911-12, p. 13).— Yellow Oleander, Exile tree, Linear leaved 
Cerbera, Milk Bush. 
Native of Tropical America and the West Indies. oe in 
a Malaya, West Africa—Old Calabar, Lagos, 
bark is used medicinally—a ane a 
(Planchon and Collin, Les Drogues Simpl. i. p. 732) as a febri- 
: fuge, India (Dict. Econ. Prod. Indi a). 
Seeds yield an oil called ‘‘Exile oil,’’ in India (Cooke, Oil Seeds 
and Oils, India p. 36); perfectly liquid at ordinary temperatures, 
specific gravity 09148 at t 259C. (Ann. Rep. Bd. Sci. Advice, India 
1911-12, p. 13). The seeds have -x known to poison cattle and 
all parts of the plant are a the active principle resem- 
bling digitalis in its action; they are in addition to their morpho- 
logical — distinguished by giving a blue colour with 
hydrochlorie ac 
The seeds, called = Jacky seeds ” or ** lucky beans "' in the West 
Indies are used as charn 
A handsome cance shrub easily grown from seed, stands 
cutting well and makes a good hedge. 
Ref.—'' Thevetia neriifolia,” in en min Indica, 
Dymock, Warden and Hooper, ii. pp. 406-4 tlie and Co. 
Lid. London, Fons —"T hevetia serio in Dict. Econ. 
Prod. India part. 1893, pp. 47-48. T hevetia 
neriifolia, un Ts. T nos, Wild), " Kirtikar in Journ. 
Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. viii. 1894, “The Poisonous Plants of 
Bombay,” pp. 453-461. 
Porvapoa, Stapf. 
Polyadoa umbellata, Stapf; Fl. Trop. Afr. IV. Sect. 1, p. 103, 
ar podimis umbellata, K. Schum. in Engl. Jahrb. xxiii. p. 291.] 
a —Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 2762. 
nac. names Cn Uus Thompson); Osu (Benin, 
U veio. — Yellow wood. 
Lagos (Foster, No. 5, 1906, Herb. Kew) ; Ibadan Forest (Punch, 
No. 138, 1900, Herb. Kew); S. — (Unwin, May 1906, Herb, 
Kew) ; found also in the Cameroon 
A small tree with very hard voi (Punch, l.c.); one of the 
trees prohibited from being felled on Native lands without a 
licence (see Forestry bier ue Order No. 26, of 1912, Govt. 
Gaz. S. a er epe , 1912, p. 2242, and Schedule, p. 2244); 
grows 24—10 ft. hig 
Polyadoa Mum is also a tree with hard wood used by the 
natives Sierra Leone for making combs (Scott Elliot, No. 5690, 
Herb. Kew). 
Ravworria, Linn. 
Rauwolfia vomitoria, 4/zel.; Fl. Trop. Afr. IV. Sect. 1, p. 115. 
Vernac. names.—lra (Ebute Metta, Millen); Akata (Benin, 
