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Vernac. name. — Jungli Amba (India, Dymock). — Hog Plum. 



Fruit eaten when ripe ; preserved ; eaten in curries, and pickled 

 when unripe. 



The tree yields a gum similar to gum-arabic. 



Wood soft, of no value ; weight 29-30 lbs. per cubic foot (Gamble, 

 Man. Ind. Timb. p. 223). 



It grows well in the Botanical Gardens, Old Calabar (Williams, 

 1909). It grows in dry forests in many parts of India and Burma, 

 also in mixed forests in Burma up to 3000 feet, and in the moist 

 low country of Ceylon, often planted (Gamble, I.e.). 



CONNARACEAE. 

 Byrsocarpus, Schum. & Thonn. 



Byrsocarpus coccineus, Schum. & Thonn. ; Fl. Trop. Afr. I. p. 452. 



Vernac. names. — Ado (Lagos, Rowland) ; Orikoteni (Lagos 

 MacGregor). 



Lagos ; Lokoja ; Zungeru ; Kontagora ; Nupe. 



Used medicinally (MacGregor, Herb. Kew). 



Growing in open grassy lands, Kontagora, &c. (Dalziel, Herb. Kew), 

 in Nupe, as a small shrub 5 ft. high, flowers white; seeds bright scarlet 

 when the pod first opens (Barter, Herb. Kew). 



Connarus, Linn. 



Connarus africanus, Lam. ; Fl. Trop. Afr. I. p. 457. 



///.— Cav. Diss. t. 221 ; Ann. Fac. Sc. Marseille, vi. 1897, fasc. 2, t. 1. 



Vernac. name. — Seribeli or Seri-gbeli (Sousou, W. C. Africa, 

 Ueckel). 



Lagos. 



In Sierra Leone, the seeds, pounded and made into flour, are used 

 as a purge (Scott Elliott, Herb. Kew). 



A drug, the native name of which means red medicine. In 

 Conakry and the greater part of French Guinea the seeds are em- 

 ployed, but in Bramaya the root-bark is used. According to 

 Drs. Maclaud and Drevon the drug is given in doses of 25 to 60 

 grams, administered in the form of a decoction or infusion. It is 

 stated to be a very efficient taenifuge (Year Book Pharm. 1896, 

 p. 134, from Pharm. Journ. [4] ii. p. 243). Employed as an anthel- 

 mintic on the West Coast of Africa (Heckel & Schlagdenhauffen, 

 Ann. Fac. Sc. Marseille, vi. 1897, fasc. 2, p. 1). 



Ref. — " Stir le Connarus africanus, Lam. " Etude botanique, 

 chimique et therapeutique, Heckel & Schlagdenhauffen, in Annales 

 de la Faculte des Sciences de Marseille, vi. fasc. 2, 1897, pp. 1-26. 



Cnestis, Juss. 



Cnestis corniculata, Lam. ; Fl. Trop. Afr. I. p. 461. 



III. — De Rochebrune, Toxic. Afric. ii. fasc. 1, p. 116, f. 105. 



Vernac. names. — Oboqui (Gaboon, De Rochebrune) ; Furudugu 

 (Sierra Leone, Smythe). 



There are no specimens at Kew to prove the existence of this 

 plant in Nigeria, although it is known from Senegambia, Sierra 

 Leone, and the Gaboon. 



The leaves are said to contain the same principles as those of 



