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Vernac. names. — Epa orubu (Lagos, Dawodu) ; Pararu (Nupe, 

 Elliott, Dudgeon) ; Kawaruru (Kontagora, Dalziel) ; Mgangala (Bornu, 

 Burkill) ; Gujia, Debbi (Yola, Dalziel) ; Vielo or Jinguba de Cam- 

 bambe (Pungo Andongo, Welivitsch ; Angola, Burkill) ; Litlo (Shire 

 Valley, Kerk) ; Senterinko or Manterin (Mombasa, Uganda, Leicester 

 Byrne) ; Mpande or Mpandi (Unyoro, Engler) ; Ndzugu (Zanzibar, 

 Wakefield) ; Njama (B. C Africa, McGlounie) ; Inhlubu (Natal, 

 Burkill) [Ahkwehu (Accra), Ekpa-ro-ro (Nargo, Gold Coast), Gub-a- 

 Gubs (Gold Coast) Easmon'] ; Voaandzou (Belgian Congo, De Wilde- 

 man) ; Mjugu mawa (Mozambique, Grant, Burkill) ; Tindlohu 

 (Transvaal, Burkill) ; Voandzobory ou Voandz ou (Ammann) ; 

 Katjang bogor (Java, Greshoff). — Bambarra Ground Nut ; Angolan 

 Mandubi (Brazil). 



Throughout Tropical Africa. 



Used as food. An analysis of samples of seed from N. Nigeria 

 shows a high percentage of moisture and low percentage of 

 albuminoids, the seeds accordingly would not be of very high 

 commercial value as a feeding-stuff for cattle, and would not in any 

 way compare with beans, peas or lentils (Dunstan, N. Nigeria Gaz. 

 Dec. 31st, 1908, p. 242). The details of the analysis are as follows : 

 moisture 13*1, ash 2'4, fat 6*2, fibre 3*9, albuminoids 16*0 (total 

 nitrogen 6-25), starch and other carbohydrates (by difference) 58*4, 

 nutrient value 88* 5, nutrient ratio 1 : 4*5. 



For Cultivation see Arachis hypogaea and Voandzeia Poissoni. 



Ref. — " Voandzeia subterranea, Erderbse, Angola - Erbse," in 

 Pflanzenwelt Ost. Afr. Engler, Part B, pp. 122-123 (Dietrich Reimer, 

 Berlin 1895). " Afrikanische Erderbse Voandzeia subterranea" 

 in Der Tropenpflanzer, iii. 1899, pp. 169-170. " Voandzeia sub- 

 terranea ou Vouandzou," in PI. Util. Congo, De Wildeman, Art. xxix. 



1905, pp. 482-485. "Le Voandzobory ou Voandzou (Voandzeia 



subterranea)" Ammann, in L' Agric. prat, pays chauds vii. 1, 1907, 

 pp. 38-43. " The Bambarra Ground Nut [Voandzeia sub- 

 terranea)" Burtt-Davy, in Transv. Agric. Journ. v. 1907, pp. 



453-456. " Bambarra Ground - Nut ( Voandzeia subterranea)" 



Burkill, in Kew Bulletin 1906, pp. 68-70, with analyses of the 



beans. Ibid. I.e. p. 192, analysis of beans from Java. " Report 



on Paruru Seeds or Bambarra Ground Nuts from N. Nigeria," 



Dunstan, in N. Nigeria Gaz. Dec. 3 1st 1908, pp. 241-242. -" The 



Bambarra Ground Nut," in Agric. News, Barbados, ix. 1910, pp. 

 340-341. 



Pachyrhizus, Rich. 



Paohyrhizus angulatus, Rich. ; Fl. Trop. Afr. II. p. 208. 



Rl.— Rumpf, Amb. v. t. 132, f. 1 ; Ralph, Ic. Carp. t. 30, f . 12 

 Mart. Fl. Bras. xv. pt. 1, t. 53 ; Hook. Ic. PI. t., 1842 ; Kew Bull 

 1889, p. 121 ; Bull. Econ. Indo-Chine, 1905, p. 1116 (fl. & fr. branch), 

 p. 1117 (tuber). 



Vernac. names. — Yaka, or Wyaka (Fiji, Seemann, Moloney). — 

 Short-podded Yam Bean. 



Nupe. Cultivated throughout the Tropics. 



Tuberous root edible. A starch is made from the tubers, or they 

 are eaten when young (Kew Bull. .1 895, p. 47) ; used as food either 

 raw or cooked (Don, Hist. Dich. PI. ii. p. 361) ; used for food in times 

 of scarcity in Samoa (Powell, Herb. Kew). The young pods cannot 

 be used as a vegetable as they are hairy and cause irritation (Kew 

 Bull. I.e.). The root is used to cure fever and hemorrhage in 



