448 
Strophanthus hispidus, A P. DC.; FI. Trop. -Afr. IV. Sect. 1, 
174 
Ill.—Ann. Mus. Paris. i. (1802) t. 27, f. 2; De c—Ó 
Strophanthus, tt. 4, 5; Trans. Roy. Soc. Edin. Xt E 
Kóhler, E Pflan. ii.; Planchon, Produits Apocynées, p. 36, 
7.4, 4a; fF: 2 (seed); Engl. and Prantl. Pflan. iv. pt. 2, f. 60; 
Payrau, Dione stus tt. 1, x 4, T (ainatorhicek Due seed, fruit) ; 
Tropenpfl. 1902, p. 559, 2; Engl. Monogr. Afr. Pflan. 
Strophanthus, t. 2; Engl. ad Drude, Veg. Erde, ix. f. 551. 
Vernac. names.—Isha Gere or Isha Giri (Lagos, Foster, F raser) ; 
Isa (Lagos, MacGregor); Aguah or Arguah (Abeokuta, Akassa, 
N =p: gre Inée or ony es ERN. Journ. Soc. Arts 
ziel). 
-Lagos (Fo i MacGre rae Row land, Tabaki, Akassa 
(Barter, Herb. uud Y) Old Calabar (Thomson, Mann) in Southern 
Provinces, Nige Kabba (Parsons) Nupe (Barter) Bassa 
(Elliott), Fokoj An Te Elliott), on (Dalziel), Zungeru 
(Lugard), in Northern Provinces, Nigeria. Extends CHEER 
Senegambia to the Cameroons. 
Seeds are an important drug, worth about 2s. to 2s. 6d. per Ib. 
wholesale, sara shipped in the pods, but more often taken 
out, free m the awns and packed in bales 
The mem are poisonous, the active pr GEM being ‘‘ Strophan- 
thin "*; used in Nigeria and generally in Tropical Africa for arrow 
poison—the ''Arrow poison of Nupe with some Euphorbia 
Se “1909. p. 395); may 
be Moped by seed, but the commercial supply i obtained so 
to collect, though according to Dalziel (Bull. Imp. t. 1907, 
as a shrub with long lax branches it is capable of being 
grown in the neighbourhood of towns and villa e 
Kew). Seeds take several months to ripen. Billington reports 
(Chem. and Druggist, J an. 28, 1893, p. 157) collecting a pod in 
month then not quite ripe, after noting its development for ten 
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duits ecu > la Matière Médicale, par la Famille py ocynées, 
ou >u ATES Central du Midi, Hameline 
“Strophanthus hispidus,” in 
