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Widely distributed in Tropical Africa and in the Tropics 
generally. 
The root chewed and used with tobacco juice for paralysing 
snakes, Old Calabar. The plant is used as forage for ge rses and 
oxen in the Congo (De Wildeman, Pl. Util. Congo (1905) p. 549): 
for gravel and kidney complaints, Liberia—a wineglassfu of the 
decoction is taken cold three times a day, tea and coffee being for- 
bidden during its use (Holmes, Pharm. Journ. [3] viii. 1878, 
p. 964); Moloney For. W. Afr. p. 397); included in “Agbo” (see 
p. 50), Lagos ead, Herb. des : Bea as children’s medicine 
Mus. Kew); French Date (Pobégu uin, in l'Agric. Pd pays 
NINOS, Er, 1911 ; P da used for ne aae. and asa 
Ann. pret Col. Marseille, 1 lv. 1897, p. 90); a dupe ni for pau 
Jamaica (Cook & Collins, Econ. Pl. Porto Rico, p. 236). 
A Slender shrub, 1-3 ft. high, a common weed everywhere. 
Bucuyera, Linn. 
Buchnera leptostachya, Benth. ; Fl. Trop. Afr. IV. Sect, 2, p. 394. 
Ill.—Peters, Mozamb. t. 34 (B. mossambicensis). 
Vernac. name.—Tambobo (Madagascar, Heckel). 
Nupe, and in Senegambia, French Guinea, B.E. Africa and 
Mozambique. 
Used by the Malgaches to blacken their teeth (Heckel, Ann. 
l’Inst. Col. Marseille, i. 1903, 2nd fasc. p. 152). 
Buchnera longifolia, Klotzsch, Fl. dier: A fr. iv. Sect. 2, p. 398, 
" Dam-Pan ” of the Gambia, is used as a blue-black dye (Kew 
Bull. 1891, p. 273). 
A herb 1-21 ft. high in swamps, Nupe (Barter Herb. Kew). 
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BIGNONIACEAE. 
CRESCENTIA, Linn. 
Fonte Cujete, Linn. Sp. Pl. (1753) p. 626. 
e 20-25 feet high, branching lopsaler at the head; 
brane soe a foot in diameter. Leaves narrow elliptic, undivided, 
arranged in fives. Flowers variegated green, purple, red and 
yellow, borne on the trunk. Fruit globular, m like, about a 
foot in diameter, shell hard; seeds black, heart-shaped about 3 lin. 
across, embedded i in an acid. d 
E 33, f. : : ; 
t. 3430; Schnizlein, Ic. t. 152*, f. 4; Nuttall, N. Amer. BE 
H. t. 103; teu U.S. Nat. Herb. viii. t. 32; Bull. Herb. Bois. i 
6) t. 
ies 
ernac. names.— a (Mexico); Higuera (Guam, Porto 
Rico) Safford] ; Tiro d Mus. Kew). Calabash tree. 
