463 
Carormoris, R. Br. 
Calotropis procera, Azt.; Fl. Trop. Afr. IV. Sect. 1, p. 294. 
Ill.—Jacq. Obs. t. 69 (À sclepias ppm pears» fe Fi. 
Rariorum, t. 18 (Asclepias A obese a); Andre Rep. 1 271 
(Asclepias gigantea); Bot. . (1836) t. 1792; Wight, R EE 
nd. . 1218; Bot. Mag. T 6859; end. and Trimen, Med. 
PE t. 176; ‘Engl. and Prantl, Pflan. iv. pt. 2, f. 67 E to G; Engl. 
and Dr ude, Veg. Erde, ix. p. 22, f. 16; Volkena, Notizbl. Bot. 
Gart. Berlin, x. 1910, App. xxii. No. 3, p. 69, f. 32. 
Ver —Bombo (Lagos, Dawodu); Tumfafia, 
bamanthélé (Yola, Dalziel): Aon or Oshoor (Arabian, Braddyll, 
Moloney); Usher (Kordof - Sudan, Muriel, Pyman); Oshr 
(Palestine, Vester & Co.); A rka (India, Pyman, Watt); Akanda 
(Bengal, Dymock, Warden § Hooper); Chuta (Lunyoro, Uganda, 
Dawe); Houta eens Brown Lester); Bombardeira (Cape 
M nm Islands, Welwitsch);  Fafetone (Senegal, Chevalier, 
re) —Gigantic. prid Wort, Auricula tree, Arbre à Soie 
= Benca (Pobéguin). 
atagum (Dahsigl No. 304, 1908, Herb. Kew); Yola; through- 
out Tropical Africa, and extending to India, ete. 
The stems yield a strong fibre, durable under water, used for 
making fishing nets, halters, lines and ropes. A sample from the 
Sudan under the name of ‘‘ Ushar ” fibre has been valued (1912) 
at £24 per ton with Mexican Sisal Hemp at the same price (Bull. 
Imp. vee 1913 p. 206; Bd. of Trade Journ. Sept. 12th, 1912, 
Rep. Ann. "No. 118, 1913, p. 25). The floss on the 
seeds is d for stuffing mattresses; the acrid milky juice is used 
mixed with salt to remove hair from hides, the root for tooth 
cleaners and the wood for making charcoal for gunpowder (Bot. 
M The leaves are used in the Poe of ** Merissa ”’ 
—a native beer; the juice is RE tds often used as an infanti- 
E Sudan (Pyman, Trans. Soc. Tro ne vili. p. 190). 
Various medicinal uses are ge to parts of the pass 
leaves, Gambia (Brown Lester, Kew Bull. 1891, p. 273) root, and 
powdered charcoal, French Guinea (Pobéguin, Pl. Med. du Guin. 
Franç. in L’Agric. prat. pays aha | er part 1, 1911, p. 291). 
The bak of the root, given in very s ] doses, is considered a 
good cure for leprosy in the E. Indies pes Mus. Kew). 
The uses generally are much the same as those of Calotropis 
gigantea (see Kew Bull. 1900, pp. 8-12). It is stated pe 
d’ Agric. Trop, 1911, p. 190) that some 8000 bales of ** Akund ” or 
** Fafton"' fibre are imported € into Europe. 
A shrub, 3-12 ft. Pen or small tre The stems in some 
instances measure 3 ft. ih irth, ne, "Sudan (Muriel, Indian 
abont 20 Ib. per cubic foot. 
