Aquatic herb. Leaves ovate-orbicular, very deeply cordate at the base, glabrous, about 5 in. long. Flowers 2½ in. long, bluish. Sepals lanceolate, subacute, lined with red. Bahr El Ghazal Prov. (Mittu-land: between Reggo & Kiro). =var. Schweinfurthiana= _Gilg_ & _Muschl._ Bahr El Ghazal Prov. (Meshra El Rek, near Nuer villages). =var. Rehneltiana= _Gilg_ & _Muschl._ Bahr El Ghazal Prov. (Jur-land: Jur Ghattas & Aggadi, & Bongo-land; Balu Stream near Sabbi, Shambé); Upper White Nile Prov. (Tonga); Darfur Prov. (Zalingei); Fung Prov. (Jongol’s Post). =N. cf. N. cærulea= _Sav._ As preceding, but leaves more widely cordate and with undulate margins and inconspicuous nerves. Bahr El Ghazal Prov. (Jur Ghattas). =N. Lotus= _Linn._ SUTEIB—Arab; RUNGAIME—Zande. Leaves shortly peltate and deeply cordate at the base, coarsely toothed and nervose below, shortly pubescent; flowers yellowish; stamens not produced into an appendage beyond the anther cells. White Nile Prov. (J. Arashkol); Bahr El Ghazal Prov. (Bongo-land, Addai, Mittu-land, Niamniam-land, Kero, Lake No). The powdered root is used for piles, dysentery, and dyspepsia; the seeds are used in skin diseases, leprosy, etc. =MENISPERMACEÆ.= 16 =Tinospora Bakis= _Miers._ ERG EL HAGGAR (N. Kordn.)—Arab. Woody climber with thick fleshy bark. Leaves cordate, entire, glabrous. Racemes axillary or at end of lateral shoots. Flowers small diœcious, solitary or fascicled in the axils of minute bracts. Fung Prov. (Fazoghli); Kordofan Prov. (Wadi El Ain, J. Kōn, J. Tellele, Daragaza). 17 =Desmonema mucronulatum= _Eng._ Climber. Leaves rhomboid sub-cordate. Bahr El Ghazal Prov. (Niamniam-land: J. Baginze). 18 =Chasmanthera dependens= _Hochst._ Climber. Leaves rotundate ovate, more or less lobed; inflor. in pendent racemes. Bahr El Ghazal Prov. (Dinka-land: Lau, Jur-land: Wau, & Kutshuk Ali). 19 =Cocculus Leæba= _DC._ ZEGAI or ZEGAIN (Kordn.)—Arab. Woody climber with red berries. Leaves alternate, oblong, ½ to 1 in. long. Flowers green, diœcious, small. Male flowers in axillary panicles; sepals, petals and stamens 6 respectively. Female flower solitary or in pairs on axillary peduncles; style 3-armed. Red Sea Prov. (Port Sudan to Soturba); Berber Prov. (Atbara); Blue Nile Prov. (Abu Haraz); Fung Prov. (Fazoghli); Nuba Mts. Prov.; Bahr El Ghazal Prov. Used in native medicine in various parts of the world for intermittent fevers. It contains two alkaloids and is similar to the official Pareira Brava in properties. =C. Holopeira-torrida= _Miers._ GUMALI (Fung)—Arab; LELINGA—Bari. Pubescent, woody climber. Leaves sometimes very variable, from hastate- lanceolate to deltoid rotundate, or hastately 3-7 lobed. Male flowers fascicled, sessile or nearly so. Female flowers fascicled or solitary, subsessile. Blue Nile Prov.; Fung Prov.; Mongalla Prov. (Bahr El Jebel: Bor Mission, Malik). In Dar-Fung the pounded stem is given with Durra to donkeys for cough.