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Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)

Dolindu in Central Africa is the name of a plant defined with Polyalthia suaveolens in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Xylopia otunga Exell) (Greenwayodendron Verdc., for the South African (b. Transvaal) botanist Percy (Peter) James Greenway, 1897–1980, from 1927 to 1950 East African Agricultural Research Station (Amani), in 1928 a Fellow of the Linnean Society, 1950–1958 botanist of the East African Herbarium in Nairobi, systematic botanist, plant collector with Colin Graham Trapnell and John P. Micklethwait Brenan (1917–1985) in Northern and Southern Rhodesia and Nyasaland, 1970–1971 President of the Kew Guild, author of A Swahili-Botanical-English Dictionary of Plant Names. Dar es Salaam 1940 and “The Pawpaw or Papaya.” E.A. Agri. Journ. 13: 228–233. Nairobi 1948, coauthor (with Ivan Robert Dale, 1904–1963) of Kenya Trees & Shrubs. Nairobi 1961, editor of Jessie Williamson’s Useful Plants of Nyasaland. Zomba, Nyasaland 1955 and of the East African Agricultural Journal (among others).

Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):

· Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien (1897)
· Acta Leidensia (1990)
· Systema Naturae
· Monographien afrikanischer Pflanzen-Familien und -Gattungen (1901)
· Adansonia: recueil périodique d’observations botanique, (1969)
· Journal of Ethnopharmacology (2005)

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