.712 



Gathered as cattle fodder, Hausaland (Dalziel, Hausa Bot, 

 Voc. p. 12). 



A common weed; stems 1-2 ft. long, more or less decumbent. 

 One of the plants recommended to check or destroy the growth 

 of '* Lalang " {Imperata arundinacea) in Malaya (Agric, News^ 

 Barbados, viii. 1909, p. 312) ; but also stated to be wrongly reputed 

 to kill Lalang grass on Rubber Plantations (Agric. Bull. Str. 

 Sett, ife Fed. Malay St. 1909, p. 8; Kew Bull. 1909, p. 80); see 

 also under Passifiora foetida, p. 326. 



Aneilema, R. Br. 



Aneilema beniniense, Kunth; FL Trop. Afr. VIII. p. 68. 



IlL — Palisot de Beauv. ' Fl. Oware and Benin, ii. t. 87 

 {Commelina beniniensis) ; Thonner, Bliitenpfl. Air. t. 16. 



VerTiac. nam65.— Tsidaun Kare (Hausa, Dalziel) ; Godawg1)aw- 

 Odo (Yoruba, Millscm) ; Abalaja, Okobogu Oji (Aguku, S. Nigeria, 

 Thomas), 



Lagos, Old Calabar, Yoruba, and widely distributed in 

 Tropical Africa. 



as 



Kew Bull. 1891, p. 214). 

 Stem trailins. 1-2 ft. 



PALMAE. 



Areca, Linn* 



Areca Catechu, Linn, ; FL Trop. Afr. VIII. p. 99. 



//Z.— Bentley and Trimen, Med. PI. t. 276; Greenish, Mat. 

 Med. p. 221, and in at least 24 other works. 



Areca Nut or Betel Nut Palm, Catechu Palm, Pinang (Borneo). 



Cultivated in India, Ceylon, South China, Philippine Islands, 

 Malaya, Siam, Borneo, and in Zanzibar and parts of East Africa ; 

 grown in the Botanic Gardens of Old Calabar, Lagos, Laeken 

 and Eala. 



The Areca Nut or seeds are used for medicinal purposes, 

 but chiefly in India and other Eastern countries as a mastioatnrv. 



with 



o 



in Siam — where in addition to home-grown nuts over 5,000,000 lb. 

 of betel-nuts are imported from India, Singapore, and Java — 

 it is stated, the advance of Western civilisation has led to a 

 decrease in betel-chewing, and an attempt has been made to 

 introduce American chewing-gum as a substitute (Chem. and 

 Druggist, Oct. 28th, 1911, p. 629). Preparations of the nut 

 are used for toothpaste and powder in Europe; but the chief 



s (Greenish, Materia Med. p. 2! 

 grow to perfection this pahn 



seeds as a vermifu 



perennial 



