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haḍa fuḍa (Sok.), a name for Cassia Kotschyana, Oliv. (Leguminosæ), and probably other species of Cassia; vide under gamma faḍa. (?a corruption of a Fulani name).
haguguwa, a species of Ficus; vide uwar yara.
haki, pl. hakukuwa, any kind of grass or weed.
hakin furtau (Sok.), Sporobolus festivus, Hochst. (Gramineæ); a small slender grass with delicate panicle of small purplish flowers; sometimes mixed with others for thatching. (Etym. furtau = a quail).
haḳorin kada, Argemone Mexicana, Linn. Yellow prickly poppy; vide under kwarko.
haḳorin kare, Panicum fluitans, Retz. (Gramineæ); a grass with hollow stem, in wet places; used as fodder. (Etym. “dog’s tooth,” from the shape of the flower spikelets.)
haḳorin machiji, Achryanthes aspera, L. (Amaranthaceæ); a troublesome weed of waste places, with small sharply pointed reflexed flowers; commonly also called ḳaimin ḳadangare, q.v.
halshen saniya, 1. In Sok. Kats. Bauchi, &c. = Portulaca oleracea, Linn. “Purslane,” a common weed of waste places, with yellow flowers and succulent spathulate leaves, commonly called fasa ḳabba, q.v. and cf. also dabrin saniya, vide under gadon machiji. 2. In Zanfara, &c. halshen sa = a name for Lonchocarpus laxiflorus, G. et P. a leguminous tree with purple flowers; leaves given to goats as fodder. vide shunin biri and farin sansami.
halshen damo, a var. of gero, q.v.
hana gobara (Zanfara), vide under dali.
hana taḳama, vide under gadon machiji.
hanjin rago, Oxystelma bornouense, R. Br. (Asclepiadeæ); a slender twiner with milky juice and white and purple flowers, commonly growing on bushes by streams.
hankufa, Waltheria americana, Linn. (Buettneriaceæ); a common erect weed or undershrub with soft leaves and small yellow flowers; used medicinally.
hannu biat or yatsa biat, a plant with 5-digitate leaves; used medicinally.
hannun giwa, a var. of dawa, q.v.
hannun kuturu, vide under gwabsa.
hannun marini, a var. of bean, vide under wake.
hannu ruwa, a var. of kola nut; vide under goro.
hano (Sok. and Kats., &c.), Boswellia Dalzielii, Hutch. sp. nov. and Boswellia odorata, Hutch. sp. nov. (Burseraceæ). Two closely similar species of “Frankincense Tree” (the former more in Sokoto, Kontagora, Zaria, &c., the latter in Yola province, &c.). Syn. ararabi (Katsina, &c.), basamu (Sok. and Zanf.). The fragrant gum-resin is used medicinally and as a fumigation for clothing, houses, &c. (Etym. from hana, to prevent, from a prejudice some have against it, believing that it prevents success in trade, &c.; a form of deceit is to adulterate or substitute it for other resins such as ḳaron maje, &c. cf. the name ba samu indicating the same idea).
hansar gada, hansar giwa, names given to several Aroid plants; vide tsakara, gwazar giwa, &c.; (hansa = the breast).
hanza, vide anza.
harawa, stem and leaf of bean and ground-nut plants, used as fodder, harawan wake, harawan geḍa. harawan ḍorowa, vide under ḍorowa.
harḳiya, Digitaria debilis, Willd. (Gramineæ); a common fodder grass, 1½ to 2 feet high, with several slender flower rays. “Finger Grass.”
harwatsi (Sok.), Mitracarpum scabrum, Zucc. (Rubiaceæ); a common weed. Syn. goga masu, q.v.
hatsin manoma (Sok.), Pancratium trianthum, Herb. (Amaryllideæ); a bulbous herb with beautiful white lily-like flowers appearing with the early rains; (sometimes called “Spider Lily”).
haujeri (Katagum, &c.), haujerin mutane, Capparis corymbosa, Lam. (Capparideæ). A climbing thorny shrub, with white flowers and yellow fruit like a small orange, sometimes eaten. The leaves are sometimes used as food. haujerin raḳumi, Capparis tomentosa, Lam. A thorny woody climber similar to the last, more common and with larger fruit, not eaten. Generally called ḳabdodo (Sok. Kats., &c.);?chauchaka (Zanfara).
haukat yaro, Datura Metel, Linn. (Solanaceæ). “Hairy Thorn Apple.” vide zaḳami, and babba juji. A large weed of waste places, with long trumpet-shaped white flowers. (Etym. from its deliriant property).
hawayen zaki, Anaphrenium abyssinicum, Hochst. (= Rhus insignis, Del.) (Anacardiaceæ). A tree with milky juice; the stems are commonly used as sticks to apply kwolli.
huda, vide fuda; hudar awaki, vide under geḍa and biya rana.