Biology (plants and animals)

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

Lehola in Southern Africa is the name of a plant defined with Panicum maximum in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym also an account of Sumatra, in a series of letters. London 1814. See [Benjamin Heyne], An Examination of so much of the Tracts, historical and statistical, on India, etc. by B.H. … as relates to the accounts of Sumatra, with various notices on the subjects of Cannibalism, Slavery, etc. By an inhabitant of Fort Marlborough. London 1818 (among others).

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

· Synopseos Plantarum (1805)
· Revisio Generum Plantarum (1898)
· Enumeratio Plantarum Zeylaniae (1864)
· Kongel. Danske Vidensk. Selsk. Naturvidensk. Math. Afh. (1828)
· Tentamen Florae Abyssinicae … (1850)
· Mém. ORSTOM (1977)

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See also (Relevant definitions)

Starts with: Lehola-la-dipere, Lehola-le-letso-lalipere.

Ends with: Belehola, Nelehola.

Full-text: Lehola-la-dipere, Lehola-le-letso-lalipere.

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