538 



Ditumbate or Matumbate (Ambriz, Wekviisch) ; Herba tostao 



(Portuguese, Welwitsch), 



River Nun, Katagum, and distributed in Tropical Africa 

 from Upper Guinea to Mozambique. 



Used for soup, S, Nigeria (Thomas, No. 7, 1911, Herb. Kew) ; 

 a decoction of the tuberous roots used as a remedy for jaundice^ 

 Angola (Hiern, Cat. Welw. Afr. PL i, pt. 4, p. 883). 



commoii 



K 



L, with thick, woody rhizomes. A 

 Katagum (Dalziel, No. 147, 1907, Herb 



p. 6. 



plumbaginea, Cav.; Fl. Trop. Afr. VI. Sect. 1, 



///•— Cav. Ic. t. 112, 



Vernac. name. — Ab Libben (Arabic, Muriel). 



Katagum (Dalziel, No. 196, Herb. Kew), ai 

 Cropical Africa : found also in North Africa, S 



:. Welw. Afr. PI. iv. p. 883). 



Boerhaavia repens, Linn., Fl 



(Hi 



//?.— DeUle, Egypte, t. 3, f. 1 {Var. minor); Collett, FL 

 Simla, p. 409, f. 131. 



Var. diffusa, Hooh. /., I.e. p. 5. 



//Z.— Rheede, Hort. Mai. vii. t. 56 (" Talu Dama ") ; Wight, 

 Ic. PI. Ind. or. t. 874 {B. procumbens) ; Mueller, Key, Vict. Pjl 

 ii. f. 44 {B. diffusa); Turner, Forage PI. Austral, p. 87 (B. 



diff 



Vernac. wames.— Etiponia or Etikponla (Yoruba, Millson); 



Ipeca, Bourghoumy (French Guiana, Meckel); Hogweed, 

 Pigweed . 



Nupe, Lagos, Oshogbo, Katagum, and widely distributed in, 

 Tropical Africa; in Australia and India. 



Used in Lagos as a pot-herb (Punch, Herb. Kew), "made 

 into soup, Yoruba " (Kew Bull'. 1891, p. 213) ; cultivated for 

 the same purpose in India; root and leaves used in medicine 



medicinal 



(Heckel 



1897, pp. 98, 120); leaves given to hogs in Jamaica (Lunan, 

 Hort. Jamaica, p. 377); a good forage plant for sheep and 

 cattle (Kew BuU. 1909, p. 14). 



F 



A perennial plant, -with woody rootstock and spreading 

 stems; occurring over large tracts of both good and inferior 

 country, AustraHa (I.e.) ; in hot sandy places, Loanda (Wehvitsch 

 Herb. Kew.^tj^e plant). ' 



Bef.—" Boerhaavia ^ diffusa, the spreading Hog Weed 



" in ' 



Diet. Econ. Prod. India, Watt, i. 1889, pp. 485^-486 " Boer- 

 haavia repens," in Pharmacographia Indica, Dymock, Warden 

 Hooper, iii. pp. 130-132. 



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