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Allium sativum 



perennial 



Leaves narrow^ 



flat. Flowers white or purple; umbel bulbiferous. 



Vernac. names. — Tafarnuwa (Sokoto, DalzieX) ; Thome (Had- 

 ramaut, Lu7it). — Garlic. 



Sokoto (Dalziel, No. 527, 1911, Herb. Kew); Mediterranean 

 region, and in many temperate countries. 



Used in some countries as a food, as well as for flavouring,. 

 like the onion ; in England more as a seasoning agent in cookery,, 

 largely so in Italy. Cultivated as a pot-herb in many parts of 

 the Soudan region, in French Guinea, the Nigerian Soudan, 

 especially in the valley of the Middle Niger and in Northern 

 Nigeria (Chevalier, Bull. Soc. Nat. d'Accl. 1912, p. 343), but in. 

 Nigeria said only to be used as a medicine commonly for fevers 

 and stomach complaints (Dalziel, Hausa Bot. Voc. p. 90). It 

 is of greater importance in medicine, j^reparations are recom- 

 mended for treatment of tuberculosis (Year Book, Pharm. 1912, 

 p. 214); in intermittent fevers it is a highly esteemed HindoO' 



m 



and elsewhere (Bentl. k Trimen, Med. PI. seq.); but officialhr 

 for medicinal purposes appears to have fallen into disuse. 



May be propagated by seed and also the bulb divides into 

 " Cloves," which may be planted Uke the bulbs of the " shallot " 

 and cultivated in the same way, in a light dry soil. 



ReJ. — " Allium sativum" in Med. PI. Bentley & Trimen, 



No. 280, pp. 5. " Allium sativum," in Pharmacographia 



Intliea; Dymock, Warden & Hooper, iii. pp. 488-491 (Trubner 



& Co., Ltd., London, 1893). "Allium sativum," in Field 



Crops, Duthie & Fuller, iii. nn. 34-35. 



