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harmless if properly prepared by a competent person and adminis- 

 tered as a medicine only, and as an aid to digestion. A great fault 

 appears to lie in its substitution at times for mother's milk. 



The wood has been described as light and easy to work ; used in 

 French Guinea for planks and furniture (Pobeguin, PI. Guin. 

 Franc, p. 58). 



Enantia polycarpa, Engl, et Diels in Engl. Monogr. Afr. Pflan. 

 Anonac. p. 69. 



[Xylopia polycarpa, Oliv. in Fl. Trop. Afr. I. p. 32.] 



Vernac. names. — Gbeido, Geybido ; Abeokuta bark ; Cantar or 

 Kanda bark ; Yellow Gbeyido. 



Lagos. 



An extract is used for dyeing skins and mats a yellow colour 

 (Technologist, 1865, p. 562) ; applied by the natives as a specific 

 for ulcers (id. 1863, p. 364). In Sierra Leone an extract of the 

 bark is used as an unguent for sores (Herb. Kew). 



Monodora, Dunal. 



Monodora angolensis, Weliv. ; Fl. Trop. Afr. I. p. 38. 



III. — Engl. Monogr. Afr. Pflan. Anonac. t. 29; Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. xxvii. t. 



Vernac. names. — Gipepe (Jipepa or Xipepe) de Songa (Angola, 

 Welivitsch). 



Old Calabar. 



The seeds are used like those of M. Myristica (Welwitsch). 



Monodora Myristica, Dun. ; Fl. Trop. Afr. I. p. 37, and var. 

 grandiflora, Oliv. in Fl. Trop. Afr. I. p. 38. 



111.— Bot. Mag. t. 3059 ; Engl. Monogr. Afr. Pflan. Anonac. t. 

 30 ; (var. grandiflora) Benth. Trans. Linn. Soc. xxiii. tt. 52, 53 ; 

 Bot. Mag. t. 7260. 



Vernac. names. — Mpoussa, (Congo, De Wildeman) ; Lakose 

 (Lagos, Punch, var. grandiflora). — Calabash Nutmeg ; Muscades 

 de Calabash ; American Nutmeg. 



Old Calabar ; Ibadan. 



The seeds are aromatic ; used by the natives as a condiment 

 (Mus. Kew) and for making various tonic, stimulating and 

 stomachic medicines (Welwitsch). H. Thorns has found that the 

 seeds yield 7 per cent, of a yellov essential oil with a greenish 

 fluorescence, and a very pleasant odour, and that no myristicin, or 

 other phenolic esters, such as occur in nutmeg or mace, can bo 

 detected in them (Pharm. Journ. [4] xviii. p. 617). 



The wood is hard and fine-grained ; bark grey and ruggod, 

 5-8 mm. in thickness (Mus. Kew, specimen from Uganda). 



Monodora tenuifolia, Benth. ; Fl. Trop. Afr. I. p. 38. 

 III.— Engl. Monogr. Afr. Pflan. Anonac. t. 28, f. B. 

 Eppah, Aghamia on the Niger ; Old Calabar. 

 Fruits as in M. Myristica. 



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