462 
ALAFIA, Thouars. 
aaa ies e Schum.; Fl. Trop. Afr. IV. Sect. 1, p. 197. 
nac. names.—U baniogon (ends, Thompson); Ottafrefredi . 
(Ibo, Piensa) 
Lagos, Abeokuta, Asaba, in S. Province and eM Patti, 
N. Province, Nigeria; found also on the Gold Coas 
The latex is used for adulterating that of better ids of rubber 
(Thompson, Col. Rep. Misc. No. 51, 1908 D. 
A large climber, with handsome fragrant flowers. 
Alafia sp. 
Vernac. name.—Homa funtum (Gold Coast, Farmar). 
Ogodo, Asaba, S. Province Nigeria (Unwin, Herb. Kew, 1906) : 
Gold Coast (Farmar, No. 552, 1906, Herb. Ke w). 
Used on the Gold Coast for coagulating rubber (Farmar, l.c.). 
ASCLEPIADEAE. 
OurnHarocoNvus, Baillon. 
Omphalogonus nigritanus, JV. E. Br. in Kew Bull. lad p. 319. 
A climbing shrub. glabrous. Leaves opposite 
petiolate, glabrous, elliptic ovate or elliptic oblong, obtuse at the 
apex, cordate or subcordate at the base; 21—4 in. long, 2-91 1 
broad. Inflorescence an axillary cyme, lon towered Sapals 
2 lin. long, somewhat rounded, very obtuse. Corolla rotate, 
1-9 in. in diam., 5-lobed to the middle, glabrous and deep red 
Poisson) outside, puberulous and violet-brown inside, yellowish 
at the base of the lobes (Le Testu). O. calophyllus, Hua in Bull. 
Soc. Bot. ers lii. (1905) p. 268; non Baillon, Fl. Trop. Afr. 
iv. Sect. 1, p. 256 
Ill.—Bull. Soc Bot. France, lii. (1905), t. 3 (O. calophyllus). 
Vernac. names.—Mbwidun bwe or Mbwidi bi (S. Nigeria, 
Thomas). 
S. Nigeria—Nofia (Thomas, No. 1011, 1911, Herb. Kew). A 
specimen without flowers collected in Kontagora (Dalziel, No. 50, 
ng Herb. Kew) may also belong her 
tex used to adulterate that of Bes rubber in S. Nigeria 
Voie Col. Rep. Mise. No. 51, 1908, p. 39, O. calophyllus). 
Hua (l.c. p. 275) refers to this as eo caoutchouc in small 
quantity, Dahomey. A fibre obtained from the stem used for 
cultivated in the native compounds of many villages (Cheater, 
Soc. Nat. d’Accl. France, 1912, p. 195, O. calophyllus 
Ref. Uode reci sae calophyllus, Baillon et Peri 
nigrescens, Afz., in Bulletin de la Soc. Bot. de Monet i 
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