558 



Piper umbellatum, Linn. Fi. Trop, Afr. VI. Sect. 1, p. 144. 



7Z/,— Jacq. Ic. PL Rar. ii, t. 216 ; Desc- Ant. i. t. 37 ; Wight, 

 It. PL Ind. or. v. t. 1925 {Pofhoniorphe siibpeltata) ] Saunders & 

 Baker, Refugium Botanicumj iv. t. 230. 



Vernac, names. — Poponde (Sierra Leone, Scott Elliot) ; Jabo- 

 randi ou Bihimitrou (Carib, Descourtilez) ; Bois d* Anisette 



(Antilles, Descourtilez). 



Lagos and widely distributed in Upper and Lower Guinea ; 

 in Mozambique, East Africa and also in the Mascarene Islands, 



Tropical Asia and America. 



Leaves eaten by the natives, Sierra Leone (Scott EUiot, 



Herb. Kew; CoL Rep. Misc. No. 3, 1893, p. 43), 



A shrub 4-5 ft. high, foimd in the Cameroons at an eleva- 

 tion of 3000 ft. (Mann, Herb. Kew), in Bangala, Congo at 

 1000 ft. altitude, parasitic on palms and as a cHmber, Sierra 

 Leone (Scott Elliot, I.e.). 



Peperomia, Ruiz & Pav. 



Peperomia pellucida, H. B. & K,\ FL Trop. Afr. VI, Sect. 1, 



p. 149. 



Vernac. name, — Rinrin (Lagos, Dawodu). 



Lagos ; Mt. Patteh (N. Nigeria) and cosmopolitan in the 



Tropics. 



Plant used as a pot-herb ; Lagos (MacGregor & Dawodu, 



Herb. Kew), and leaves included in " Agbo " {see p. 50), 



MYRISTICACEAE. 



Pycnaktirts, Warb. 



Pycnanthus Kombo, Warb,; FL Trop, Afr. VI, Sect. 1, 

 p. 158. 



III. — Warburg, Muskatnuss, t. 4, f. 9 (seed and section of 

 seed); Thonner, Bliitenpfl. Afr. t. 50; Tropenpfl. 1911, t, 9 



(habit). 



Vernac. names, — Akomu (Yoruba, Foster j Dodd, Ibadani 

 Punch) ; Acoomoo (Lagos, Smetham) ; Ote (Gold Coast, Tud- 

 hope, Chipp) ; Combo (Gaboon, Christy) ; Mutugo (Angola, 

 Christy) ; Ikom (Pahouin, Congo, De Wildeman) ; Mochan 

 (Benin, Leslie) ; Tamakwa (Ibo, Leslie) ; Mutaje, Mutuge or 

 Entuge (Golungo Alto, Welwitsch) ; Cachao (Island of St. Thomas, 

 Welwiisch) ; Moxadeira Brava (" Wild Nutmeg Tree *') (Angola, 



Welwitsch); Kpoye (Sierra Leone, Col. Rep. Ann. No. 737, 1912, 

 p. 34; Misc, No. 88, 1914, p. 568. 



Lagos, Ibadan, &c. in Nigeria and widely distributed in 



Upper and Lower Guinea, Nileland, &c. 



The seeds are said to ;^i.eld 72 per cent, of a fatty oil and 

 have been imported into Liverpool from St. Thomas as an oil- 

 seed (Samuelson & Son, Mus. Kew ; Christy New Comm. PL & 



