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the markets of the town for sale during the dry 

 season, where they can be purchased at a cheap rate. 

 They have a camphoraceous taste, are moderately 

 acrid, and in a fresh state diffuse a rich aromatic 

 odour. In Sierra Leone this pepper is used as a 

 condiment to flavour soups and other dishes. In the 

 Kongo region an infusion of the green fruits, leaves, 

 or entire plant constitutes one of the component parts 

 of a fetish potion with which the Gangas or native 

 doctors attempt the cure of manifold series of diseases. 

 — 'Pharmaceutical Journal,' vol. xiv., 1854, p. 198. 

 Distribution : Upper Guinea. 



Ashantee Pepper, or Dojvie {Piper guineense, 

 Thon.). — This species is probably identical with the 

 last. The fruits are brought by the native merchants 

 from the interior and exhibited for sale in the markets 

 of the Gold Coast. The natives of Akkrah sometimes 

 employ them in lieu of the common black pepper.— - 

 'Pharmaceutical Journal,' vol. xiv., 1854, p. 199. 



Distribution : Upper Guinea. 



Myristice.!;. 



Combo of the Gabon, Mutago of Angola {Myristica 

 angolensis, Welw.). — The seeds of this plant have 

 been recently imported into Liverpool from St 

 Thomas as an oil-seed. They are said to yield 72 

 per cent., or nearly three-quarters of their weight, of a 



