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Vitex sp. — Shrub. Fruits edible, from Lagos. — 

 Kew Museum. Coll. Barter. 



Cantong {Vitex sp.). — Wood of a dark-brown 

 colour and useful-looking, from the River Bagroo. — 

 Kew Museum, Coll. Mann. 



White Mangrove, Garigari or Aguirigui of Gabon 

 (Avicennia africaim, Beauv.). — This tree is very- 

 abundant by the rivers, but scarce by the sea. The 

 wood is compact, fibrous, and good for ship-building. 

 The bark is employed by the natives in medicine 

 against eruptions of the skin. — ' Catalogue des 

 Produits des Colonies Fran9aises, Exposition Uni- 

 verselle de 1867,' p. 46. 



Distribution : Upper Guinea. 



Labiat^e. 



Fever plant of Liberia {Ocimum viride, Willd.). — 

 Erect shrubby plant, about three feet high, said to be 

 used in Sierra Leone and Liberia in fevers ; it has 

 also been used as a substitute for quinine, and is 

 said to be much cheaper and equally effectual. It is 

 given in the form of an infusion, a wine-glassful being 

 administered at intervals until perspiration is freely 



induced, the patient being kept warm in bed. 



' Pharmaceutical Journal,' vol. viii., 1878, p. 563. 



Distribution : Upper Guinea. 



Ocimum canum, Sims. — Herbaceous erect plant. 



