alubada or alibida, Carpodinus hirsuta, Hua (Apocynaceæ); a woody climber; one of the rubber vines in the south.
amai mussa (Sok.), Eragrostis major, Hochst. (Gramineæ); a grass with an unpleasant smell. (Etym. “cat’s vomit”). Syn. [buddari] (Sok.), q.v, and bunsurun fadama (Katsina and East).
amara, Tacca involucrata, Sch. et Thon. (Taccaceæ); a wild perennial herb with an edible tuber; cultivated in some districts, chiefly by Fulani; in the Benué district gathered wild and sold in the form of a starchy meal. (The same as “South Sea arrowroot” of the Sandwich and Society Islands). vide also under [giginyar biri].
anguriya, cotton seed, vide under [abduga].
anza (Sok. Kats. &c.), hanza (Gobir), Boscia angustifolia, A. Rich. (Capparideæ); a pale-leaved shrub; the berries are edible and sometimes the bark is prepared with cereals as a food similarly to the plant [bagayi], q.v. hence also called anza rashin bagayi; including also the broader-leaved B. senegalensis, Lam. cf. [zayi].
arakke (Sok.), vide [rake]; Saccharum officinarum, L. one of the two species of sugar-cane.
ararabi, vide [hano].
ataras, a var. of kola nut; vide under [goro].
atillis, a tree, the nut of which yields an oil used medicinally as food, &c. Canarium Schweinfurthii, Engl. (Burseraceæ). “African Elemi Tree.”
auduga, vide [abduga].