106 



Grewia mollis, Juss. ; Fl. Trop. Afr. I. p. 248. 



HI. — Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. t. 17. 



Vernac. name. — M'Koma (Cent. Africa, Grant). 



Abo ; Nupe ; Mt. Patti, Lokoja. Distributed throughout Tropical 

 Africa. 



The mucilaginous bark is used in soups (Barter, Fl. Trop. Afr. 

 I.e.). The fruit, about the size of a pea, is edible, and pleasant 

 to taste. The wood is made into bows and arrows by the natives. 

 The outer wood is yellow, and the heart is dark resembling rose- 

 wood (Grant, Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. p. 10). 



Triumfetta, Linn. 



Triumfetta cordifolia, Guill. et Perr. Fl. Sengamb. (1831), p. 92. 



[T. semitriloba, Mast, in Fl. Trop. Afr. I. p. 256, non Jacq.] 



III.— Guillem. Perr. Rich. Fl. Senegamb. t. 18. 



Var. Hollandii, Sprague, Kew Bull. 1908, p. 232, differs from 

 the type in having the stems and flower-buds hirsute, with long 

 simple hairs. 



Vernac. name. — Esura (Lagos, Dawodu). 



Lagos; Abeokuta ; Epe; Oloke-Meji, in the Western Province ; 

 Okuni, Eastern Province. 



Used in Lagos as a fibre plant (Kew Bull. 1908, p. 232). 



Samples of the fibre prepared on the Gold Coast, by the Cort 

 Development Syndicate, Ltd., were valued, if clean and uniform 

 in length and strength, at about £27 per ton (Kew Bull. 1906, 

 p. 397, Triumfetta semitriloba, var. africana). The samples were 

 prepared by retting, from 3 to 20 days. One sample had the bark 

 scraped before retting (Mus. Kew). 



Var. typica, Sprague, Kew Bull. 1908, p. 231. 



Vernac. name. — Raka or Racca (Sierra Leone, Cole, Dudgeon). 



Lagos. 



Yields a fibre (I.e.). 



Var. tomentosa, Sprague, Kew Bull. 1908, p. 232. 



Vernac. name. — Quibosa (Golungo Alto, Welwitsch). The fibre 

 is used in Angola for making ropes and sacks (Hiern. Cat. Welw. 

 Afr. PI. i. p. 97). 



Triumfetta rhomboidea, Jacq. ; Fl. Trop. Afr. I. p. 257. 



III. — Jacq. Id. t. 90 ; Bot. Reg. 1. 1058 (T. micropetala) ; Queens- 

 land Agric. Journ. viii. 1901, p. Ill, t. 8. 



Vernac. name. — Ako-bolobolo (Lagos, Dawodu) ; Nesuwa 

 (Yoruba, Higginson) ; Nzonogwi (Zomba, McClounie) ; Tsitia- 

 moty (Madagascar, Heckel). — Chinese Burr. 



Lagos ; Yoruba ; Nupe ; Abokam ; Ikum, and widely distributed 

 in Tropical Africa. 



The plant yields a soft glossy fibre (Diet. Econ. Prod. Ind.). 



