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plants; tlie most remarkable seems the Ewelly welly, (the Aserumb- 
drue of Ashantee, a species of Piper related to Umbellatum) the 
broad leaf of which, when rubbed on a fetish man, is said to render 
him invisible. 
The Eroga, a favourite but violent medicine, is no doubt a fungus, 
for they describe it as growing on a tree called the Ocamboo, 
when decaying ; they burn it first, and take as much as w^ould lay on 
a shilling. 
The medicine they most prize is the Neoondoo ; a small quantity 
was spared to me reluctantly. Four nuts grow in a pod on a very 
large tree of the hardest wood ; it is purchased greedily, only 
growing on the frontier of Empoongwa, and is used successfully 
by those afflicted with gravel. 
In killing elephants they use two poisons, both of which are the 
milky juices of the stalks of plants. Inquaw indjoo (a plant 
belonging to the natural order Aroide a, and referable to the Lin- 
nean genus Arum) bears a hard white berry in a spiral cluster. 
The Ygwan agwan berries are red, and in perfection at the time 
that the flowers are budding. These juices are rubbed on the 
muskets balls, spears, arrows, and knives, and the effect on the 
elephant is described as almost instantaneous. 
They make bird lime from a tree called Epoowa. 
Besides the pine apple, the common thread of Africa, they use 
that of two other plants, the Ezoonee {Triumfitta elliptica, Nov. Sp.) 
and the Naangoo, an Urtica, or genus nearly alhed to it. The 
former bears a yellow flower, too minute for my inspection. The 
top of the latter is surmounted by five or six deKcate flower stalks ; 
the blossoms were exceedingly minute, and of a lively green. 
The governor of the town brought me two or three very harsh 
rough leaves, which he said were from the plant Egoogoo (a species 
of Jicus) not then in blossom; they are used in planing wood, 
