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*“ Potato, Solanum tuberosum,’’ Fraser, in Cycl. Amer. Agric. 
Bailey, ii. pp. 519—528. — — Potatoes EIS Other Root i as Food, 
Langworthy, U.S. Dept. Agric. Farmers’ Bull. 295, 1907, 
pp. 1-45; Potato, pp. 1-28.——* Potato Sich. "dn "The World's 
Comm. Produ cts, Freeman and Chandler, pp. 65-68 (Pitman and 
Sons, Ltd., London, 1907 — — Solanum. tuberosum, in Comm. 
Pa India, Wait, pp. 1028-1031.——‘‘ Potatoes at Wisle ey, 
1908," in Journ. Roy. Hort. Soc. xxxiv. 1908-09, pp. 525-531, 
"with descriptions of 96 varieties.———'' Potatoes in Upper 
Burma,” Thompstone, in Agric. Journ. India, v. 1910, pp. 
85-89, pls. ii.-iv. illustrating varieties. e Potato as a 
"Truck Crop, Corbett, U.S. Dept. Agric. Farmers’ Bull. No. 407, 
1910, pp. 1-24. Potato Culls as a Source of Industrial 
Alcohol, Wente and Tolman, U.S. Dept. Agric. Farmers’ Bull. 
No. 410, 1910, pp. 1-40.—— te Experiments in Potato Growing,” 
Henshaw, in Journ. Bd. our. xvii. 1910, pp. 892-904.—— 
oe Seed Potatoes and How to Produce Them, Stuart, U.S. 
De Agric. Farmers Bull No. 533, 1913, pp. 1-16. 
export of Seed Potatoes from France,” in Journ. Roy. Soc. 
Aris, lxii. 1914, pp. 662-663.——Potato Cultivation in the 
Assam Hills, bn hor Land Records and Agric. Assam. 
Bull. No. 3, 1914, pp. 1-6. 
Paysaris, Linn. 
Physalis angulata, Linn.; Fl. Trop. Afr. IV. Sect. 2, p. 248. 
Ill.—RRheede, Hort. Mal. x. t. 70; Dillenius, Hort. Eltham 
tt. 11, 12 (Alkekenji indicum . . . ); Blanco, Fl. Fili ip. t. 50; 
Wi ght, Illust. t. 166 bis 
Vernac. names. pon shi in maza (Kat agum, Dalziel); Cubum . 
Pap (Gambia, Brown Lester); Sacabuche Anguloso (Porto Rico, 
d and Collins). 
e, Katagum, Kuka (Bornu), Lokoja in N. Nigeria, and 
; Poen gem from Sierra Leone, Togoland and Angola. 
Used as an external counter-irritant, r^ the natives on the 
. Gambia (Brown Lester, Kew Bull. 1891, p. 273). 
ed shrub 9 in. to 2 feet or more high; common in éulitented 
und, Nupe (Barter, Herb. Kew), and waste places, Katagum 
(Dalziel, Herb. Kew). 
Physalis minima, Linn.; Fl. Trop. Afr. IV. Sect. 2, p. 247. 
Ill.—Rheede, Hort. Mal. x. t. 71; Dillenius, Hort. Eltham. t. 9 
bee barbadense nanum, ete.); Transv. Agric. Journ. iv. 
Q6 
. Vernac. names.—Karamanta (Katagum, Dalziel); Kindi (Sierra 
Leone, Scott Elliot); Caboboad (Angola, Welwi tsch). 
West Africa—Senegal to the Cameroons, extending to Angola, 
Uganda, Nyasaland, Portuguese East Africa, etc. 
Fruit edible (Parsons, Herb. Kew); the fruit of the cultivated 
form is eaten and that of the var. indica is used medicinally as 
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