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Vernac. names. — Afoforo Afe (Lagos, Foster) ; Afoforo (Lagos, 

 Punch)*; Tenghu (Sierra Leone, Scott Elliot); Nanujiu rinkia 

 (Katagum, Dalziel) ; Mpeva (Nyasaland, Purves) ; Cabra (Sti 

 Thome, Welwitsch) ; Musamba-Samba (Cazengo, Welwitsch) ; 

 Ecekou (Congo, De Wildeman) ; Charcoal Tree (Nyasaland, 

 Purves). 



Lagos, Nupe, Katagnm and widely distributed in Upper 



Guinea from Senegal to the Cameroons ; in Angola, Belgian 

 Congo, East Africa, etc. and in Natal and Madagascar. 



Small pieces of wood roasted and made into tea for dysentery. 

 Lagos (Punch, Herb. Kew) ; bark used for coughs, Sierra Leone 

 (Scott Elliot, Herb. Kew) ; musical instrument called '' Samba, 

 viola," made from the wood, Angola (Hiern, Cat. Welw. Afr. 

 PL iv. p. 1030) ; wood used for various building purposes, Isle 

 of St. Thomas (I.e.) ; wood soft and light and of little use except 

 for fuel, Nyasaland (Purves, Bull. Imp, Inst. 1909, p. 59). 



A shrub or small tree, 10-20 ft, ; berries, small black; 

 common in cultivated fields', Abinsi and vicinity (Dalziel, Herb. 

 Kew) ; common on abandoned land, Gold Coast (Chipp, Herb. 

 Kew), small tree of very rapid growth, Uganda (Dawe, Herb. 

 Kew) ; a low-spreading evergreen, an exceedingly^ fast grower, 

 affording excellent shade, Nyasaland (Purves, Lc.)* 



CANNABINACEAE, 



Caj!^i^abis, Tourn. 



Cannabis sativa, Linn. ; Fl. Trap. Afr. VI. Sect. 2, p. 16. 



III. — Numerous works from an early date, one of the earliest 

 beinff Bheede, Hort. Mai. (1690) x. t. 60-61 and of the most 



modern, Duthie, Field Crops (1882) i.' tt. 19, 20, Bentley & 

 Trimen, Med. PL (1880) t. 231 : Prain, Sci. Mem. Med. & San. 

 Dept. India, No. 12, 1904, tt. 1-5. 



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Vernac. names. — Dagga (Transvaal, Burtt-Davy) ; Riamba, 

 Diambe or Jamba (West Africa, Watt) ; Bhang (East Africa, 

 Speke & Grant) ; Gunga (E. Nepal, Hooker) ; Ganja (Bengal, 

 KerTy Prain, Watt)-; Liamba (West Africa, Negreiros); Bangue 

 (E. Africa, Negreiros) ; Riamba, Riambe, Diambe or Liambe 

 (Angola, Welwitsch) ; Canhamo (Portuguese, Welwitsch) ; Diamba 

 (Gaboon, St. Paul de Loanda, Mann); Kief (Morocco, Maw); 

 Tabaca bianca, Jamba (Lower Amazon, Traill) ; Hon ma 

 (Szechuan, Wilson) ; Tangma (Hupeh, Wilson) ; Haschisch 

 (Egypt, Bd, of Trade Journ. July 25th, 1912, p, 236) ; Hasheesh 

 (Arabian, Orme) ; Dakka, Insanga (Natal, Ferneyhough) ; Insanga 

 (B. C. Africa, Bowhill) ; Maconia (Congo, Clarke). Hemp, Euro- 

 pean Hemp, Common Hemp, Indian Hemp. 



A plant mdely distributed, wild and cultivated, in many 

 tropical, sub-tropical and temperate countries in Asia, Africa, 

 America, Europe and Australia. 



Broadly it is cultivated in hot countries as a drug and in 

 cool countries as a fibre plant. The seed produced in many of 



