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Used in S. Nigeria as a fish poison (Letter, Imp. Inst. to Kew. 
1st March, 1904: Herb. Kew, note on leaf specimen). 
A herbaceous plant 7 ft. high. 
PERISTROPHE, Nees. 
Peristrophe bicalyculata, Vees; Fl. Trop. Afr. V. p. 242. 
Ill.—Lam. Encycl. t. 12, f. 2 (Justicia ligulata); Cav. Ic.1. t. 71 
ue Nee): Retz. Acta Holm. (1775) t. 9 aies bicaly- 
er ernac. name.—Ghati-Pit-Papra (Bombay, Dymock). 
Niger Territory, Borgu, Bornu, ete., in Nigeria, and widely dis- 
tributed in Tropical Africa, Tropical and Sub- Tropical India. 
The plant macerated in an infusion of rice is said to be a useful 
remedy for poisonous snake-bites, Malabar (Watt: Dict. Econ. 
Prod. India; Moloney, For. W. Afr. 400). 
The whole herb is gathered when in flower and dried for use as a 
what des for Fumaria parviflora, the true  Pitpapra "" (Dymock, 
us. Kew). 
An erect annuakand a common weed. 
VERBENACEAE. 
Lantana, Linn. 
Lantana Camara, Linn.; Fl. Trop. a V. p. 275. 
Zil.—Dillenius, Hort. Eltham, t. 56, f. 64 (Camara ves folio, 
vend Lam. Encycl. t. 540; Buchoz, Herb. Col. Am es t. [C 
t. ‘38 (L. gites Des hike iv. m 304 ; "v. t E 310 0 (E. aculeata); 
Belgique gio a (1868) 0 (var. iovtensi) Vidal, F1. 
For. Filip. t. 74 D (fl. & fr.); ded Fl. Argent. ii. t. 14. 
Vernac. ide due or Ewon-agogo (Lagos, Mac- 
Gregor, Dawodu); Ewon Adele (Lagos, F oster); M recens 
‘doen Guiana, Heckel); Camara, Cabará-caá (Argentine, Bett- 
reund); Cammara (Brazil, Merck); Ghaneri (Bombay, Kenga); 
Cariaquillo (Porto Rico, Cook ollins); Durie (Java, Evans, 
§ Co.).-—Prickly Lantana, Wild Sage, Camara piquant. 
wie distributed in West Africa. Native of Tropical 
America, naturalised in many warm countries 
The leaves are used as ET pope He joiners i in Java (Descr. Cat.. 
ar ai Museum, eck ws 
n of Cammara i s give as a remedy der catarrhal 
purpose in eee n arts of West Africa, mixed with leaves of 
Ocimum vi bdi (A Giran Lakes pd tae Herb. Kew); and various 
medicinal uses are attribute d to the plant in French Guiana 
pm Les Pl. Med. et Toxiq. eu Franc. in Ann. Inst. Col. 
