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.