ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, KEW. 
BULLETIN 
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION. 
XV.-COLA. 
{Cola acuminata, Bchott A Endl.) 
Labogie Cola, 
A general account of the Cola nut has been already i 
riven in the 
Kew Bulletin for IX'.'O. pp. •>;,;', 2bo. In an ai'riele by" 
Count Zech 
on the Coin of AYest Africa ( Mif/h. n. d. Ih ■,//*■■/< ,s : ■, 
xiv.. p. !•_>. II-i.I.mhvm-, i, made roth,.- Laho.hi " < 
Africa, which is stated by him to he more prized 1 
>y the Cola 
experts ami traders of the Soudan than the Ashanti 
Cola. The 
( ' !t mentions espeeiallv nine legalities as pro 1 
n'diiiir this 
--uperie.r Cola. viz.. Laho>hi. Fashi. Yakutli, Gbaki 
, Patchiko, 
Kimbokun, Rete, Bitagi and Koda. 
In January, 1904, specimens readied Kew from 
Mr. W. R. 
Elliott, Forestry <) nicer. Northern Nigeria, of the Col: 
.1 found by 
al specimens 
rreat demand 
■tches locally 
• elevation of from i.'.n m 
' deep, black, sandv loam 
• moisture bv the stream, 
• little rare is taken of tin 
' the Oil Nut Palm (Eh 
' district is probably bet\A 
5 rain falls from Decembe 
found to belong to the genu 
Z375 Wfc 72 6/06 D & S 2 
