Cultivated and wild. It is used as a vegetable, the fibre is inferior to that of the true jute. The plant is also used in native medicine. =C. Antichorus= _Ræuschel._ SUTEIH (Atbara) & UM SHITEIH (N. Kordn.)—Arab. Prostrate or decumbent perennial. Leaves small, roundish, plicate- crenate, palmately 3-nerved. Flowers solitary or in pairs. Capsule 1-1½ in. long, slender, beaked at apex, 4-valved. Nubia; North Sudan; Berber Prov. (Atbara); Khartoum Prov. (Khartoum); Fung Prov.; Kordofan Prov. The plant is used as a demulcent. =C. fascicularis= _DC._ Procumbent annual; leaves short-stalked, oblong or lanceolate, 1-2 in. long, 3-nerved. Capsule about ¾ in. long, cylindrical, short-beaked. Kassala Prov. (Gallabat); Fung Prov. (Bunzaga); White Nile Prov. (J. Arashkol); Bahr El Ghazal Prov. (Bongo-land, Gir). =C. trilocularis= _Linn._ Annual, erect or decumbent. Leaves 1-3 in. long, elliptic to oblong- lanceolate. Pedicels short, 2-3 flowered; petals bright yellow. Capsules 2-3 in. long, 3-4 angled; beak short and straight. White Nile Prov. 203 =Glyphæa grewioides= _Hook. f._ Slightly pilose shrub, 8-12 ft. high. Leaves ovate or oblong, subcordate, 3-nerved. Flowers bright-yellow, in terminal cymes. Fruit oblong or fusiform, indehiscent, 1-2 in. long. Bahr El Ghazal Prov. (Niamniam-land: by the Nabambisso River); Mongalla Prov. (Yei River). =STERCULIACEÆ.= 204 =Melhania ferruginea= _A. Rich._ Woolly herb or undershrub. Leaves longer than the stalks, subcordate oval-oblong, velvety, palmately 3-5 nerved. Epicalyx of 3 broadly-ovate, unilateral segments. Petals convolute, persistent. Capsule pointed; seeds 10 in each cell. Mongalla Prov. (Sheikh Tombé). =M. Denhamii= _R. Br._ DUBAGHA (N. Kordn.)—Arab. Undershrub with a false likeness to _Senra incana_. Leaves as long as leaf-stalks, about 1 in. long, ovate-oblong, velvety. Flowers on axillary peduncles, red. Capsules subglobose, 5-celled, with 1-2 seeds in each cell. Red Sea Prov. (21° N. Lat.); Kordofan Prov.; Darfur Prov. 205 =Dombeya multiflora= _Planch._ Shrub. Leaf blades equal to stalks, 1-2 in. long, cordate-roundish or oblong, palmately 5-7 nerved. Inflorescence appearing before the leaves, in stalked axillary cymes. Styled deeply 5-cleft. Fung & White Nile Provinces. =D. multiflora= _Pl._ =var. (a) vestita= _Schum._ GREGDAN (Baggara)—Arab; KINDAMOI (J. Eliri)—Nuba; DERDER—Hameg; POPWA, PURPUR and METEMBOA—Zande. Shrub or small tree, with palmate leaves and white flowers, which turn pink after being fertilized, the corolla persisting. Fung Prov.; South Kordofan Prov.; Darfur Prov. (J. Marra N.W. slopes 6,500 ft.); Bahr El Ghazal Prov.; Bahr El Jebel (Madi). 206 =Melochia corchorifolia= _Linn._