C. myricoides a species from Southern Africa was also tested positive for its antimalarial activity against both sensitive and resistant strains of P. falciparum with IC50< 30 µg/ml (Muregi et al. 2004), it also showed 31.7% suppression in parasitaemia against cloroquine tolerant strain of Plasmodium berghei NK65 (Muregi et al. 2007).