Botanical Name

Ocimum canum Sims [Lamiaceae]

Specimen Type

Herbarium Sheet [Preserved Specimen]

Collector

Paul E. Isert

Collection Date-s

1784

Collection Location

Ada [Ghana: Greater Accra Region]

Colonial Context

Danish Gold Coast of Africa 1663–1981

Annotations Determinations and Type Specimen Status

IDC microfiche foto: Isert et Thonning nr. 71 I 3

Common Names

Blafaa-koae [Schumacher/Thonning]

Historical Cultural and Traditional Knowledge

[Hepper (1976) p. 65:] "The natives have the superstition that the spirit of their deceased relatives can appear to them and bring upon them all kinds of illness; when a native attributes his illness to this cause this and other strongly-scented plants are boiled in water with which he washes himself and one besprinkles the place where he is staying with the powerful odour in order to expel the spirit. Th."

Source

Herbarium C NHMD

NHMD Herbarium C Catalogue Number

C10004206

Copyright Owner

Natural History Museum of Denmark

Copyright License

CC BY-NC 4.0 (images) and CC0 (metadata)