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the soft-shelled variety grown in good alluvial soil, four fruited 
during the year, Nos. 2, 4, 6 and 12; of these only one produced 
nuts true to type, No. 6. It is a fine tree, which fruited abun- 
to the proprietor of the ‘Palms’ who in 1918 allowed me to 
fence in tree No. 6 from which seeds are now being secured and 
sown. It has been decided on Government land to remove the 
to type trees. For this reason the whole row of trees at the 
‘Palms’ will be left standing although more than half of them 
have already been shown to produce hard-shelled nuts. The 
plants grown from seed obtained from Lagos in 1913 have not 
yet come into bearing.” 
The following records from Southern Nigeria are taken from 
ce Ope 
Ifa,” it is not to be confused with the “‘Ope Ifa”’ or * King 
Palm” of the Lagos people, it is a thick shell variety, but the 
kernels occasionally have four instead of three eyes, which is 
characteristic of the thick shell variety. In the thin shell variety 
