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twenty to thirty feet high. Seeds eatable, but if eaten 

 uncooked are said to produce an intoxicating effect 

 — ' Nupe.' Kew Museum. 

 Distribution : Upper Guinea. 



African Rosewood, Santal Rouge d'Afrique, Kino 

 Vene et Wenn of Senegal. Bois de Sang-Vene in 

 Yoloff, African or Gambia Kino {Pterocarpus 

 erinaceus, Poir.). — Tree often 40 to 70 feet high, with 

 a very hard, fine-grained red wood suitable for naval 

 construction, planking, &c. It is used on the East 

 Coast of Africa at Shupanga for paddles, oars, &c., 

 under the name of " Malompe," and is imported into 

 England for use in turning, &c. This wood was said 

 to be worth 150 francs the metre cube at Goree in 

 1865. The Kino known to the Portuguese as sangue 

 del drago (dragon's blood), and imported into this 

 country, is obtained from this tree from incisions made 

 in the trunk. This juice soon coagulates to a blood- 

 red and brittle mass, and is said to be practically indis- 

 tinguishable from the officinal Kino {P. marsupium). 

 Kino is used as an astringent medicine, and in its 

 action is closely allied to Catechu, and may be used 

 in medicine internally in diarrhoea, &c., as a substitute 

 for tannin, and as an injection in leucorrhcea, and used 

 as a topical application to indolent and flabby ulcers. 

 It is also used in the manufacture of wines, and would 

 be valuable as a tanning and dyeing material if 

 obtained in large quantities. — ' Catalogue des Produits 



