giyeya or giyaiya, Mitragyne africana, Korth. (Rubiaceæ); a tree with spherical heads of flowers, abundant in damp localities.
gizaḳi (Zanfara), Carissa edulis, Vahl. (Apocynaceæ); a scrambling shrub with black sweet berries. The root is put in the goran ruwa to render water agreeable. Syn. ?uwa banza.
gizari, vide [gazari].
gizgiri, Cyperus auricomus, Spreng. (Cyperaceæ); a tall sedge with tuberous slightly fragrant root which is used like [kajiji], q.v. Syn. kajijin fadama; (possibly the same as [ḍan Tunuga], q.v.).
gizgirin kaba, vide under [goriba].
godar zomo, Tinnea Barteri, Gürke (Labiatæ); an undershrub with a deep-purple flower and inflated calyx. (Etym. “hare-bell”). (Also applied to Cardiospermum Halicacabum, vide [gautan kwaḍo], on account of the inflated capsule).
goga jiki, Combretum sp. ?C. leonense, Engl. and Diels.; a tree with rough fissured bark. (Etym. from the chafing of the skin when faggots are carried in the arms). A gum-yielder. ?Syn. [wuyan damo], q.v. [gogin damo] (Zanfara).
goga masu, Mitracarpum scabrum, Zucc. (Rubiaceæ); a weed with small white flowers, used as a medicine for hair-lice, itch, &c. (Etym. “smear spears,” from its superstitious use as a preventive against wounds). Syn. harwatsi (Sok.).
goge (?Hausa), Feretia canthioides, Hiern. (Rubiaceæ). Syn. [ḳuruḳuru], q.v. and lallen suri.
gogin damo, vide [goga jiki].