574 



— Jaiibeit 



Vernac. names.— Fidda, Saruta, Fidasarse or Fida Sartsi 

 (Hausa, Katagum, Sokoto, Dalziel). 



Lagos, Eppah, Katagum, Sokoto ; also found in Gold Coast 



Colony. 



Commonly used for hedges, Sokoto to Kano and Zaria 



(Dalziel, No. 392, 1911, Herb. Kew). Dudgeon (Agric. & For. 



W 



vicinitv of Kano itself but the villa, 



Guinea 



corn (see Sorghum, p. 802). 



A small shrub. Stems 3 ft. or more, scrambling (Fl. Trop. 



, Eppah (Barter, Herb. Kew) ; 3 ft. 



Afr ,. 



savannah forest. Gold Coast, leaves soon falling (Chipp, HerK 



Kew). 



Euphorbia Poissoni, Fax. ; Fl. Trop. Afr. VI. Sect. 1, p. 660. 



Kasage and Lorn, N. Nigeria (Barter, No. 1491, Herb. Kew), 



also in Togoland and Dahomey. 



Used with an apocynaceous j^lant to poison arrows. Similarly 

 it may be mentioned an extract is used obtained by boiUng for 

 several hours, the bark of E. noxia. Pax, a shrub about 10 ft. 

 high, of Somaliland (Fl. Trop. Afr. I.e. p. 551). 



A succulent much-branched bush 5 ft. high of grotesque 

 appearance, in dry places, Nupe (I.e.). 



Euphorbia prostrata, Ait.\ Fl- Trop. Afr. VI. Sect. 1, p. 510. 



///. — Boisser, Ic, Euphorb, t. 17* 

 Vernac. name. — ^Emile (Lagos, Dawodit). 



Lagos, Old Calabar, and known also from Lower Guinea, 

 Nile Land, Mozambique, South Africa and Cape .Verde Islands. 

 A native of Tropical America, . 



Used in medicine, Lagos, Dawodu (No. 12, 1899, Herb. & 

 Mus. Kew). A specimen described as '' Yellow Fern-Leaf "^ 

 was sent to Kew by the African Lakes Corporation in Sept. 

 1899. 



An annual plant, spreading stems 2-8 in. long; growing on 

 hard sandy ground, Old Calabar (Holland, No, 123, 1898, Herb. 

 Kew). 



Euphorbia pulcherrima, WilkL ex Klotzsch. in Otto & Dietr. 



AUg. Gartenz. ii (1834) p. 27. 



A shrub 2-6 ft. high. Leaves opposite or alternate ovate- 

 eliiptic, sub-acute, entire, 3 or more inches long, dark-green or 

 bright-green above, paler below. Inflorescence a terminal cyme ; 

 flowers insignificant, greenish-yellow, but subtended by large 

 leaf-Hke bracts of a briUiant crimson or vermiHon colour, for 

 which the plant is remarkable. 



IlLSot. Mag. t. 3493 {Poinsettia pulcherrima) and in at 

 least a dozen or so other works. 



