579 



Lagos, Nujje, Kontagora, and also widely distributed in 

 Upper and Lower Guinea, the Belgian Congo ; the var. orientalis, 

 Hutchinson, extending to the French Congo, Nile Land— Uganda, 

 Madi &c. and also in the Belgian Congo. 



" The antidote of greatest repute both against local poisons and 

 against those of unknown foes " (Dalziel, Hausa Bot. Voc. p. 62, 

 Bull. Imp. List. 1907, p. 205). A food plant of the African 

 Sillvworm " [AnapJie infracta) in Uganda (Gowdey, Bull. Entomol. 

 Research iii. part 3, Nov. 1912, pp. 209-274). 



medicinal 



Kew) 



fermented extract is sometimes used for hardening floors (Dalziel, 

 Hausa Bot. Voc. p. 62) ; leaves used in Agbo {see p. 50— a decoc- 

 tion of leaves and roots used in Lagos as a medicine for cliildren) 

 to check and prevent thrush (Dawodu, No. 26, 1901, Herb. Kew). 

 A shrub or small tree, 10 ft. Nupe (Barter, Herb. Kew), a 

 scrambUng shrub, Zungeru (ElUott. No. 6, Herb. Kew), a sHrub 

 common in the bush Kontagora (Dalziel No. 51, Herb. Kew). 

 See references under B, micrantha. 



Bridelia micrantha, 5m7Z. ; Fl. Trop. Afr. VI. Sect. 1, p. 020. 



//Z.— Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin, v. Jan. 1913, p. 292 ; Bull. 



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plantation, Bukoba), f. 412 (Jeune plantation, Bukoba), p. 587, 

 f. 414 (Plantation ayant ete tallies, Bukoba). 



Vernac 



Ira-Odan (Yoruba, Foster) ; Asa 



Thompson); Arasa (Lagos, Thompson); Awasa (Yoruba, Lam- 

 born ; Egira (Sierra Leone, Scott Elliot) ; Nsopa (Zomba. Purves) ; 

 Mushunguna (Chindas, Swymierton) ; Calutete (Cazengo, Goss- 

 wciler) ; Mutserrie or M'Tserrie (Zoutpansberg, Transvaal, 

 Eastwood, Burtt Davy) ; Katasemite (Luganda, Michel). 



Lagos (Thompson, Nos. 466, 469, 1909; Lamborn, 1911 

 Herb. Kew); Oban (Talbot, No. 2331, 1912, Herb. Kew), Aboh 

 (Barter, No. 173) and Old Calabar (HoUand, No. Ill, 1898, 

 Herb. Kew) in Nigeria and widely distributed in Tropical Africa! 



A food plant of the "African Wild Silkworm" {Anaphe 

 infracta), Uganda (Ann. Rep. Dept. Agric. Uganda, 1910-U ; 

 Bull. Imp. Inst. 1913, p. 163; Mchel, Bull. Agric. Congo Beige, 

 iii. 1912, p. 582). The production of silk from the Cocoons of 

 Anaphe has been undertaken by the African Silk Corporation in 

 the Bukoba District where BrideUa micrantlia is grown to feed 

 the silkworm ; 64 lb. (value £5) of raw cocoons and 720 lb. 

 (value £67) of prepared cocoons being exported in 1910 (Cons. 

 Rep. Ann. No. 5171, 1913, p. 22). In forming a plantation it 

 is recommended to put the plants in 6 ft. apart and when they 

 are large enough to support a colony of silkworms the larvae may 

 be introduced either by tying a cocoon mass on the tree or by 



placing the eggs on the leaves (Ann. Rep. Dept. Agric. Uganda, 

 I.e.). 



The 



ma 



Sierra Leone (Scott Elhot, Herb. Kew); small black berries 



