Part 12

=fatakka=, Pergularia tomentosa, L. (Asclepiadeæ); a plant with orbicular hoary leaves and milky juice; used by tanners as a “bating” bath after unhairing and before tanning. Syn. =kwotowa= (Sok.).

=fate fate=, a medicine or love potion used by women, made from the leaves of =shiwaka=, &c. (Vernonia amygdalina), q.v. Also a food prepared from various plants, e.g. flowers of =tsamiya=, or leaves of =rama=, =yaḍiya= or =zoḅarodo=.

=feḍḍa=, screens made usually of the bulrush =shalla=, q.v.

=fidda hakukuwa=, Dyschoriste Perrottetii, O. Kunth. (Acanthaceæ); a water-side plant. (Etym. from the use of the seed to remove spicules of grass, &c. from the eye, the foreign particle adhering to the mucilaginous coat of the seed when placed in the eye).

=fidda sartsi=, or =fidda saruta= (Gobir), Euphorbia lateriflora, Sch. et Thon. A shrub with milky juice much used for hedges. (Etym. from its use as a poultice to extract a splinter).

=fideli=, Cassia Absus, L. (Leguminosæ). “Four-leaved Senna;” an undershrub with viscous foliage used medicinally.

=filasko=, Cassia obovata, Collad. (Leguminosæ). “Italian,” “Senegal” or “Tripoli Senna;” a low shrub with yellow flowers and flat sickle-shaped transversely ribbed pods; one of the varieties of commercial senna.

=filfil=, a spice; probably a var. of Capsicum (Arab. felfel).

=fisawa= or =fiso=? vide =ḍan farkami=.

=fita=, Clinogyne filipes, Benth. (= Donax filipes, Schaumann) (Scitamineæ); a water-plant with spear-head-shaped leaves commonly used to wrap up food.

=fiyaka=, vide =jibda ḳassa= and =gaḍaukuka=.

=fuda= or =huda= = young flower-buds of any tree; cf. =tofo= and =labaye=. =hudar awaki=, vide =geḍar awaki=.

=fular tsofo=, Polycarpæa linearifolia, DC. (Caryophylleæ); a herb with heads of white chaffy flowers. Syn. =magudiya=, q.v. cf. =bakin suda=.

=fura=, a grass, Pennisetum pedicellatum. Syn. =ḳyasuwa=, q.v.

=fure= = a flower; (when unqualified generally = flowers of the tobacco plant).

=furen gadu= (=f. gyado=), vide =awarwaro=.

=furen yan sariki=, Lonchocarpus sp.? a tree with panicles of blue or purple flowers; used as a charm by one who hopes to be king.

=furfura ta gyatumi= (or =jatumi=), Ærua tomentosa, Forst. (Amaranthaceæ); a hoary white erect plant; vide =alhaji=. (Etym. “hoary locks”). The name is loosely applied to some other plants of white habit.

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=gaba chara= (Sok. and Zanf.), Acacia Dalzielli, Craib. (Leguminosæ); a tree with panicles of yellow flower-balls. (Etym. the name of the yellow-breasted thrush Cossypha albicapilla). Syn. =gwanno=.

=gabara= (Sok.), Arundo Donax, L. (Gramineæ). “Spanish Reed;” a very tall grass of river-banks, with hollow stem and large silky flowering head; stems used for flutes and pipe-stems. Syn. =machara=, q.v. and =wutsiyar giwa=.

=gabaruwa=, syn. =bagaruwa=, q.v. Acacia arabica, Willd.

=gabu=, vide under =albasa=.

=gaḍakuka= or =gaḍaukuka= (Katagum, &c. the Ful. name); Aristolochia albida, Duch. (Aristolochiaceæ); a twiner with oddly shaped lurid black-purple flowers; sometimes confused with =jibda ḳassa=, q.v, and the bitter root sold as such; a remedy for Guinea-worm, &c. and a bitter tonic. Syn. =maḍachin ḳassa=, =dumar dutsi=, and ?=fiyaka=.

=gadagi=, Alysicarpus vaginalis, DC. (Leguminosæ); a common herb, used when ripe as a fodder for horses; (including the similar A. rugosus, DC.).

=gadon machiji= (Sok.), Trianthema monogyna, L. and T. pentandra, L. (Ficoideæ). “Horse Purslane;” two very similar and common succulent weeds, forming a thick growth in waste places. Synonyms are =hana taḳama= (because one has to walk warily amongst it), and =dabrin saniya= (= “cow’s lip” but cf. =halshen saniya= or =fasa ḳabba=). The name is elsewhere commonly applied to a species of convolvulus, =yamḅururu=, q.v.

=gadu= (Zanfara), Pavetta Barteri, Dawe (Rubiaceæ); a shrub the leaves of which are used by some pagan tribes as food, with kunu of cereals, &c.

=gagayi=, an aphrodisiac prescription of 12 ingredients; vide =gangawari=; applied also to several plants supposed to have the same property, e.g. =baḳin gagayi= = Fadogia agrestis, Schweinf. (Rubiaceæ), an erect plant with a tough root.