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anticatarrhal. — ' Vegetable Materia Medica of Western 

 India,' W. Dymock, p. 182. 



Distribution : Upper Guinea, Nile Land, Lower 

 Guinea, Mozambique District. 



Desmodium triflortim, DC. — Herbaceous plant. It 

 is valued as a medicine for the cure of dysentery. — 

 'Enumeratio Plantarum Zeylaniae,' Dr. Thwaites, 

 p. 86. 



Distribution : Upper Guinea. 



Uraria picta, Desv. — This shrubby plant is supposed 

 in Western India to be an antidote to the poison of 

 the Phoorsa snake {Echis carinatd). The Hindoo 

 name is "Ddbri." — 'Vegetable Materia Medica of 

 Western India,' W. Dymock, p. 181. 



Distribution: Upper Guinea, Nile Land, Lower 

 Guinea, Mozambique District. 



Common Tare or Vetch ( Vicia sativa, L.). — Slender 

 annual. Largely cultivated in England and else- 

 where as a fodder plant. The Abyssinians grow it 

 under the name of " Ententeratt." — ' Flora of Tropical 

 Africa,' D. Oliver, vol. ii., p. 173. 



Distribution : Nile Land. 



Lathyrus sativus, L. — Slender annual extensively 

 cultivated in Southern Europe under the name of 

 Jarosse or Gesse, and in Lower Guinea under those 

 of "Sobbeure," " Ater," and "Schimbera," for its seed, 

 .which is used as food, and also the pods when green. 



