549 



tions, Townsend, U.S. Dept. Agric. ; Farmers' Bull. No. 568, 

 1914, pp. 1-20. Sugar Beet Gro\ving under Irrigation, Towns- 

 end, idem, No. 567, 1914, pp. 1-26. Evaporation in the Cane 



and Beet Sugar Factory : A Theoretical and Practical Treatise, 



Koppeschaar, pp. 1-116 (Norman Rodger, London, 1914). 



" Feeding and Manurial Value of Sugar Beet Crowns and Leaves," 



in Journ. Bd. Agric. xxii. 1915, pp. 750-760.- " The Gromng 



of Sugar Beet," I.e. March 1916. nn. 1210 1914- inplnHinrr P^.f 



of Cultivation, By-products, and General. Sugar Beet Sirup, 



Townsend & Gore, U.S. Dept. Agric. Farmers' Bull. No. 823, 



1917, pp. 1-13. "The United States Beet Sugar Industry; 



A Federal Trade Commission Report," Inter. Sugar Journ. 



xix. 1917, pp. 410-413, cost of growing, &c. Sugar Beet 



Seed: History and- Development, Palmer, pp. 1-120 (Chapman 



& Hall, Ltd. London, 1918). Beet Top Silage and Other 



By-Products of Sugar Beet, Jones, U.S. Dept. Agric. Farmers' 

 Bull. No. 1095, 1919, pp. 1-24. 



p. 97. 



PHYTOLACCACEAE. 



Phytolacca, Linn. 



dodecandra, L'Herit. ; Fl. Tron. Afr 



Ill.—Comm. Soc. Reg. Gottingensis, xii. t. 2 (P. abyssinka) ; 



L'Herit. Stirp. Nov. t. 69; Wood, Natal PI. iii. t. 263 

 (P. abyssinica). 



Vernac. ?iame5.— Endottaral (Abyssinia, EotJi); Valiivoraka 

 (Madagascar, Heckel) ; Luoko (Uganda, Wilson); Mohaden 

 <Natal, Wood); Muhoko (Kikuya, E. Africa, Battiscombe) ; 

 Mutonga-tonga (Golungo Alto and Pungo Andongo, Welwitsch). 

 Mustard Tree of Scripture. 



Lagos : Cameroons, Gold Coast, Sierra Leone and widely 

 distributed in Tropical Africa ; Natal ; &c. 



The seeds — a cold infusion of them — are used as soap for 

 washing cloths, Abyssinia (Roth, Herb. Kew) ; the fruit is used 

 by the Waganda (in LTganda) to wash themselves with (Wilson, 

 Herb. Kew) ; the leaves when boiled or pounded are used 

 instead of soap for washing clothes by the natives in Angola, 

 where the bark and leaves are said to be used for various 

 medicinal purposes (Hiern, Cat. Welw. Afr. PI. iv. p. 901); 

 young shoots used in sauces and the leaves as a substitute for 

 spinach (Chevalier, Bull. Soc. Nat. d'Accl. France, 1912, p. 312). 

 Considered poisonous by the natives in Natal (Wood. I.e.). 



Heckel states that rlpafli has nmnrT'orl fnllr^TTn'nrr 4^V.^ «^^:^:,j._. 



o 



xion oi w to 15 grammes of the juice of raw fresh leaves and 



further attributes various medicinal uses to the roots and leaves 



in Madagascar (Ann. Flnst. Col. Marseille, i. 1903, fasc. 2 

 p. 168). 



A woody cHmber wdth slender stems sometimes 15-20 ft. 

 long (Fl. Trop. Afr. I.e.); a shrub, but Httle wood, climbing 



