bakin mutum (Sok.), Pleioceras sp. (Apocynaceæ); a shrub with milky juice and long slender pods. Syn. bakin mayu, sandan mayu (these names refer to mystical uses in divination, &c.); also gamma sanwa (or g. sauwa), from the forked peduncle with 3 or 4 developing carpels resembling the tripod stove for a cooking-pot = sanwa. (? = Holarrhena Wulfsbergii, Stapf).
bakin raḳumi, a var. of [dawa], q.v. Syn. ḳerama, and mallen kabi.
bakin suda, Polycarpæa corymbosa, Lam. (Caryophylleæ); a small wild herb with whitish chaffy flowers; scarcely distinguished from [magudiya], q.v. (suda is the name of a bird).
balagandi, vide under [rawaya].
balambo, vide under [bagayi].
balasa, or balasaya, Commelyna nudiflora, Linn. (Commelynaceæ); a “spiderwort,” a weed of pastures and waste places, with delicate azure-blue flowers; gathered as cattle fodder. Syn. kununguru (East Hausa).
balbela, Pulicaria crispa, Clarke (Compositæ); a white-leaved weed with yellow flowers. (Etym. the name of the white padi bird.) Syn. bafuri, and fara saura, q.v.
baleno, vide under [bagayi].
bambami (Kontagora, &c.), Alchornea cordata, Benth. (Euphorbiaceæ); a tall woody climber in ravines.
bambamko (East Hausa), vide [falfoli].