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is known at the Gold Coast as * Gbomi " or “ mS elt Harnberger 
is quoted as having paid the sum of twenty pounds for a native cure 
he E This proved to be the bark of TI las africana 
in palm wine. The bark is also said to yield an alkaloid 
simlar to conessine, the E principle in the bark of the Indian 
H. antidysenterica. A similar use of the bark of 77. africana is 
referred to by Fianchon iid: E. Collin in Les Drogues Simples, p. 704 
Mr. G. F. Scott Elliot on specimens of Holarrhena "— 
collected by him at'Sierra Leone, simply adds: ** The people at Layah 
use the feathers for pillows.” In Olivers Flor. Trop. Africa, iii, 
44, iv is stated that “ Rondeletia pU G. Don (Gard. Dict. iii 
pp. 9 and 6, No. 17) is Holarrhena africana, DC,” which belongs to 
the Apocynace. In the Bulletin, p. 245, it was inadvertently referred 
Wes 
to the Rubiacexw. It is apparently confined to t Africa, and all t 
specimens at Kew are from that region. It ranges mee Sierra Leo oti 
to the lower Niger, and was sent from Lagos by Captain: (now Sir 
s 
Moloney in 1883. We are oe TESI reier information 
as to its value, if any, as a rubber plan 
A common plant in East Africa, speci in the Zambesi region, 
called * Quina" by the or and figured in Livingstone's 
* Missionary Travels," 1857, p. 648, under the naiive name of 
* Kumbanzo," is Holarrhena febr ifuga. This was collected at Tette 
by Sir John Kirk in 1859; in the Manganja Hills by Mr. C. J. Meller in 
1861, and it extends westward baread Lake ene and northward " 
sambara ke and Grant it “Jasmine” on account of t 
‘sweet odour of the flowers. ees eines in the Kew Herbaum 
are from Usugara in what is now German East Africa. 
Livingstone refers to the use of the — in cases of fever. The 
* name and properties of this bark," he says, * made me imagine that it 
was a cinchonaceous tree.” His further Ls is as follows: “The 
thiek soft bark of the root is the part used by the — the 
Portuguese use that of the tree itself. I immediately om o use a 
decoction of the bark of the root, and my men’ foun so sf ewan: 
that they collected small quantities of it for teri vos: e^ kept it in 
little bags for future use. Some of them said that they knew it in their 
own country, but I never happened to observe it. The decoction is 
given after the first paroxysm of the complaint is over. The Portuguese 
believe it to have the same effects as quinine, and it may prove a 
substitute for that invaluable medicine." 
aa Pee cree of —— value of aie nsi dale in e; Africa, 
t die : 
as of H. africana in rica, d H. anti- 
Ayrenterica in wate The bark of the hi fey ih si p? seeds of 
the latter “are amongst the: most important medicines of the Hindu 
Materia Medica." (Watt? s Dict. Econ. Prod, India, iv., 255). 
Mr. C. J. Meller, already quoted, collected numerous specimens of 
Holarrhena febrifuga. He, however, says nothing about the medicinal 
properties of the plant, Attached to specimens collected in the 
Manganja Hills in 1861 he gives the following information : * * Maconga’ 
or *Macombi. Flowers white. Trailing and climbing to a 
height, with rough corrugated bark; yields a plentiful thin juice 
affording the india-rubber of the natives; tree v very abundant, Mino.” 
Another specimen of the same plant, also collected by Meller in the 
Manganja Hills, at an elevation of 1 to 3000 ft., is marked “ * Kacopi. 
A native rubber is obtained from this and also: several others, two of 
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