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Corchorus tridens, Linn. ; Fl. Trop. Afr. I. p. 264. 



III.— Burman, PI. Ind. t. 37, f. 2 (C. trilocularis). 



Vernac. names. — Quisanani or Quijanana (Angola, Welwitsch). 



Nupe ; Onitsha. Widely distributed in Tropical Africa, &c. 



The young tops, according to Welwitsch, are cooked with palm- 

 oil, and used as spinach by the natives of Angola (Hiern. Cat. 

 Welw. Afr. PL i. p. 101). 



The plant yields a fibre, but little seems to be known about it ; 

 De Wildeman mentions it with other species under " Jute ou 

 Gunny " (PI Util. Congo, Art. xvi. p. 203). Grows in yam fields 

 at Onitsha, and about cultivated places in Nupe (Barter, Herb. 

 Kew). 



Glyphaea, Hook. f. 



Glyphaea grewioides, Hook.f. ; Fl. Trop. Afr. I. p. 267. 



Ill— Hook. Ic. PL t. 760 ; Hook. Niger Fl. t. 22. 



Vernac. names. — Atorin, or A tori (Yoruba, Millson, Foster) ; 

 Uweheyota, or Unweriotan (Benin, Thompson, Dennett). 



Yoruba ; Benin ; Guarara River ; Dekina, Bassa Province. 



The Yorubas use the plant as a remedy, taken internally, for 

 gonorrhoea, and also as a tonic (Kew Bull. 1891, p. 217). 



LINBAE. 

 ERYTHROXYLON, Linn. 

 Erythroxylon Coca, Lam., Encycl. ii. (1786) p. 393. 



A shrub or small tree 2-5 feet high, erect and moderately 

 branched ; bark usually reddish brown, passing in older specimens 

 into greyish brown ; branches scarred where the leaves have fallen 

 off ; young twigs smooth. Leaves chiefly on upper branches, 

 alternate, soon falling, one to three inches long, lanceolate or oval, 

 sometimes attenuated into the petiole, but in the type more or less 

 acute at both ends, apex mucronate, perfectly entire, dark green 

 above, paler and glaucous beneath, quite glabrous, mid-rib pro- 

 minent beneath, lateral veins numerous, faint, freely anastomosing, 

 the areolated portion slightly concave, paler and extending from 

 base to apex on each side of the mid-rib ; petiole from \-^ inch 

 long ; stipules small, closely pressed to the stem, and united along 

 their inner edge to form a single triangular, acute, toothed organ, 

 intrapetiolar (placed between the petiole and the stem) very 

 persistent, at first thin, greenish and transparent, becoming on 

 old branches, brown, stiff and spinous. Flowers, small, white, 

 inodorous, on slender drooping glabrous pedicels, about \ inch 

 long, several together in the axils of the leaves, calyx very deeply 

 cut into five triangular-ovate, acute, glabrous segments. Petals 

 five, alternating with the calyx lobes. Stamens 10. Ovary 

 superior. Fruit, a small indehiscent, red, smooth drupe, one- 

 celled, one-seeded by suppression, about \ inch long, oblong-ovoid, 

 pointed, when dry, furrowed. Seed filling the endocarp, testa 

 thin, embryo straight, with a superior radicle and flat cotyledons 

 (Kew Bulletin, 1889, p. 3.), 



