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THE word “umdhlebe” does not, I think, appear in Döhne's “Zulu-Kaffir Dictionary.” I presume it to be a derivative from the root hlaba, which Döhne interprets as denoting, among other things, the giving of pain. Some native tales of the tree will he found in part iv. of Bishop Callaway's “Religious System of the Amazulu,” in which it is asserted that “there are several kinds, not one kind only of umdhlebe; same are small.” I should be disposed to think the kernel of fact will be found to lie in native observation of the deleterious properties and weird aspects of certain Euphorbiaceœ.
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C., H. The Umdhlebe Tree of Zululand. Nature 27, 32 (1882). https://doi.org/10.1038/027032a0
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