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o a considerable elevation, still giving good crops in these 
situations. The upper limit of its growth ma taken as usually 
between 1200 and 1300 metres. On the Bana highlands, how- 
ever, it reaches 1450 metres, and bears plenty of fruit, while in 
the Cameroon Range it ascends to 1000 metres, but the limit of 
its productiveness is attained there at about 700 metres. 
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of previous human occupation. It is one of the characteristic 
plants of the secondary forest, which has mostly grown up on 
land of deserted farms or settlements 
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Germany consumes more than half the world’s comimercial 
supply of the produce of oil-palms. Besides the imports from the 
Cameroons and Togoland, Germany obtains palm-oil and kernels 
abundant than was supposed some time ago he difficulties 
and expense of transport at present prevent the quantities of fruit 
occurring in regions coast from being utilised 
from river territories near the coast, e.g., Lower Sanaga, Wuri, 
Mungo, Rio del Rey and Cross River, ‘that dispatched by the 
