gamma faḍa

(Kano, .), Ca ia Kotschyana, Oliv. ( Leguminosæ ); a tree with laburnum-like yellow flowers and long cylindrical pods which do not split. Syn. malga or marg a (Sok. Gobir, .). Also Ca ia Sieberiana, DC. and perhaps other species (very similar to the “Pudding Pipe Tree”— Ca ia fistula ). The dark pulp around the seeds is a laxative drug. Scarcely distinguished in Hausa from the somewhat similar Ca ia Arereh, Swartzia madagascar i ens is, Oliv. and others whose pods split longitudinally. vide under bayama, bogo zage, and haḍa fuḍa. The pods of some of these are sometimes used as a fish-poison, vide under ago and baina. (Etym. gamma faḍa —“leading to feud,” from unskilled or improper use as a drug.)