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CELASTRINEAE. 



GYMNOSPORIA, Benth. & Hook. 



Gymnosporia senegalensis, Loes. in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xvii. (1893), 

 p. 541. 

 [Celastrus senegalensis, Lam., Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 361.] 



Var. inermis, Loes., has been collected in Lagos [(Rowland), 

 (Millen No. 117) Herb. Kew] ; in Borgu (Barter, No. 780 Herb. 

 Kew), and in Northern Nigeria without precise locality (Talbot, 

 Herb. Kew). 



III. — Guillem. Perr. Rich. Fl. Senegamb. t. 36 (Celastrus 

 coriaceus) ; Wight, Ic. PI. Ind. or. ii. t. 382 (Celastrus montanus) ; 

 Boissier, Voy. de Bot. Espagne, t. 38 (Celastrus europaeus) ; Bedd. 

 PL Sylv. (Anal. Gen.) t. 10, f. 2 (C. senegalensis) ; Vidal Fl. For. 

 Filip. t. 31 A (C. Montana). 



Vernac. name. — Guenoudeck (Senegal, Moloney). 



Borgu ; Kano. Widely distributed in Tropical Africa ; extend- 

 ing to India and occurring in the Mediterranean region. 



In India the leaves are used for fodder, the branches as 

 dunnage for the roofs of houses (Gamble, Man. Ind. Timb. 

 p. 177), and the bark ground to a paste — mixed with mustard oil — 

 as a dressing for the head (Diet. Econ. Prod. Ind.). 



The natives of Senegal and Senegambia use the root bark in the 

 treatment of chronic dysentery (Moloney, For. W. Afr. p. 299 ; 

 Sebire, PL Util. Senegal, p. 48). In Madi a decoction of the root 

 is used to relieve pain at childbirth (Grant, Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 xxix. p. 46). 



The wood is closed grained, hard and durable (Moloney, For. W. 

 Afr. p. 298). According to Gamble it weighs 45 lb. per cubic foot, 

 and the tree is found in India at altitudes up to 4000 feet (Man. 

 Ind. Timbers, p. 177). 



HlPPOCRATEA, Linn. 

 Hippocratea indica, Willd. ; FL Trop. Afr. I. p. 368. 

 III.— Roxb. PL Corom. ii. t, 130 ; Pierre, FL For. Cochin, t. 302 ; 

 Brandis, Ind. Trees, p. 160. 



Vernac. name. — N'Gunbo (Golungo Alto, Welwitsch). 



Niger ; Nupe. Widely distributed in. Tropical Africa, India, etc. 



The very tough and twisted stem of this liane is used by the 

 natives of Angola for the construction of pig-sties, the toughness 

 of the stems offering a greater resistance to the pigs' teeth than 

 other building woods (Hiern, Cat. Welw. Afr. PL i. p. 148). 



Hippocratea obtusifolia, Roxb. ; FL Trop. Afr. I. p. 369. 



III. — Guillem. Perr. Rich. Fl. Senegamb. t. 26 (H. Richard iana); 

 Hook. Bot. Misc. iii. 1833, Suppl. t. 36 (Satacia laevigata) ; Blanco, 

 Fl. Filip. t. 86 (Salacia sinensis) ; Wight 1c. PL Ind. or. iii. t. 963 ; 

 Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss, t. 22 (H. Schimperiana). 



Vernac. names.— Gwodeyi (Katagum, Dalziel) ; M'Comvay 

 (Bahr-el-Ghazal, Brown) ; Tonke (Sierra Leone, Scott Elliott). 



Nupe ; Katagum. 



