Part 25

=kilili= = flowers of the date palm; vide under =dabino=.

=kimba=, Xylopia æthiopica, A. Rich. (Anonaceæ). “African,” “Guinea,” or “Negro Pepper.” A tree; the small cylindrical black pods are sold as a medicine and spice.

=kimba kimba= or =kimbar dawaki=, &c., Hyptis pectinata, Poir (Labiatæ). An erect odorous weed of damp places.

=kimbar dutsi=, vide =kamu mowa=.

=kimbar mahalba= (Sok. Kats. and Zanf.), Lantana salvifolia, Jacq. (Verbenaceæ). An undershrub with fragrant leaves and flowers used to flavour food, milk, &c.

=kimbar rafi=, ?Platystonia africana, P. Beauv. (Labiatæ). A luxuriant weed of river-beds with slightly fragrant leaves; used medicinally.

=kinchiya= (Sok. and Kats.), Stylochiton Dalzielii, N.E. Br. (Aroideæ). Syn. =gwandayi=, q.v.

=ḳini= (Sok. and Kats.), Tephrosia purpurea, Pers. (Leguminosæ). A branched undershrub with soft leaves and pink flowers; used medicinally. Syn. =maraguwa= (Katagum, &c.).

=kiri kiri=, Cynodon dactylon, Pers. (Gramineæ). “Dub Grass.” “Bermuda Grass.” A small creeping grass with narrow radiating flower-spikes; a good fodder; capable of forming turf and binding sand. Syn. =tsarkiyar zomo= (Sok.).

=kiriya=, Prosopis oblonga, Benth. (Leguminosæ); an acacia-like tree with white flowering spikes and brown pods; the seeds called akiye or akwiye (Nupe piye), are used to make daudawa, q.v.

namijin kiriya, vide kolo.

kiriyar kurumi or kaḍanyar kurumi, a name given to a hard-wooded forest tree of the Benué region, not known in Hausa.

=kirni= (Kano), or =kisni= (Sok. and Zanf.), Briedelia ferruginea, Benth. (Euphorbiaceæ). A shrub, the root of which is in some districts used as an antidote to arrow-poison. makubar mahalba = a fermented extract of the bark used sometimes for hardening floors; (vide under =ḍorowa=).

=kirtani=, a strong twine made from fibre of =yawan wake=, =tumfafiya=, and =yaḍiya=, q.v.

=ḳi taḅewa=, a medicine; sold in the form of small tuberous pieces with rootlets (probably the root of a grass); used in fumigation as a charm, love-potion, &c. (Etym. “fail me never”).

=ḳodagaya=, a kind of bean; ?Canavalia ensiformis, DC. Cultivated as a climber on fences and trees, &c.

=ḳodago= or (=ḳwalo=), the hard-shelled nut of the Dum palm, vide under =goriba=.

=kokara=, a hard-wooded tree; walking-sticks and cudgels called umara, are made from it.

=ko karani=, a var. of =rama=, q.v.

=ḳoḳiya=, Strychnos spinosa, Lam. (Loganiaceæ). A tree with yellow hard-shelled fruit a little larger than an orange; the acid pulp is edible, the seeds are poisonous.

namijin ḳoḳiya, Strychnos alnifolia, Baker, and S. triclisioides, Baker; two very similar shrubs with smaller fruit than =ḳoḳiya=; not edible.

=ḳoḳiyar biri= (Kontagora), Voacanga obtusa, K. Schum. (Apocynaceæ). A tree with paired capsular fruit, which grows in damp ravines.

=koko=, vide under =duma=.

=kokochiko=, Oncoba spinosa, Forsk. (Bixaceæ); a thorny tree with white rose-like flowers and a hard globular fruit which is used as a rattle. (Etym. kokochiko = a child’s rattle).

=kokuwa= (Sok. and West), Limonia sp. (Rutaceæ); a tree with hard green orange-like fruit.

=kolo= (Zanfara), Amblygonocarpus Schweinfurthii, Harms. (Leguminosæ); a large tree with twice-pinnate leaves and brown 4-angled pods. Syn. =namijin kiriya= (Sok.), =kashi kashi= ?(Kontagora).

=kololo=, a var. of the bottle-gourd; vide under =duma=.

=komaya= (Kano), Eragrostis tremula, Hochst. (Gramineæ). A common wild fodder grass; grain eaten in scarcity. Syn. =burburwa= (Sok.). komaya ta fadama, Eragrostis biformis, Kunth. and other spp.; taller grasses of wet places, resembling =komaya=.