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As a result of this application a specimen of Barwood from the 
river Prah, in the district of Chawa, Gold Coast, was received at 
Kew. The herbarium material which accompanied the specimen 
was imperfect. It was therefore impossible to determine accu- 
rately the tree which had furnished the wood, but from the struc- 
ture of the latter and the absence of colour it was readily seen that, 
whatever the species might be, there was no similarity between 
its wood and that of ordinary commercial Barwood. A sample of 
Camwood, received at the same time, proved to be really the 
produce of Baphia nitida, Afz. 
' As regards Lagos, the specimens of Barwood sent to Kew agreed 
with the « Camwood " of the Gold Coast in having been yielded 
by Jtiaphia nitida. It is therefore clear that at times the one 
product may be mistaken, in trade circles, for the other. 
The Travelling Commissioner of Sierra Leone sent specimens of 
two woods unaccompanied by herbarium material. One of these 
was labelled Camwood, vern. " Bundoi " ; this agrees with speci- 
mens in the Museum known to be the wood of JBaph 
Afz. The other was sent as Konta Wood, vern. " Pendeh " ; this 
bears no resemblance to either Barwood or Camwood ; it has been 
determined by Mr. G. F. Scott-Elliott as probably the wood of 
Jfrhma auriculata, Benth. (Leguminosae). Later, at the request 
ot the Travelling Commissioner, a sample of commercial Barwood 
was forwarded to Sierra Leone, so that he might study its appear- 
ance and characters. The result of the Commissioner's further 
endeavours to clear np the difficulty is given in a letter from him 
dated 10th July 1903 :-«I have for a long time endeavoured to 
aiscover a wood which would approximate in colour and other 
cietails to the specimen of Barwood submitted to me, but although 
and hJ m l loyed an American sawyer to seek for it in the bush, 
ana nave shown the specimen to many Chiefs and others, I have 
commrL n *T-? ^ }* finding a ^hing which in any way 
compares w,th it, nor does the wood appear to be known." 
«nS!^ n *f the , chie f source of Barwood, or Eedwood as it is 
sn? a . * n i erm6d ' End there is now hardl J room for doubt that, 
i Vp^Zn^°°V B conG . e ™ d > ^e species which yields the product 
nSSW fnH *k H °,° kerS Icones Ptontarum, vol. xxiv., t, 2369 
a Shtrf SO Qn r t deS T bed aS a tree of the vi W n forest, reaching 
moved bvt?° r" aUd yielding the Barwood or Redwood em- 
D Oliver 7 S! n - 1VeS f a / ye ' With the description Professor 
P Slr^ S T?r n °" 0Wing note:-- Our specimens of 
win f + r? ? llected by s °y^ x and are labelled 
in this case T ^ traderS ' The confusion hith, rtn . listing 
or other ^no. %° many parallel in stances in which dye-woods 
plan Lre t»lf °TT ic , Vahle are concerned-between the 
trom Metacarpus Unctortus, Welw., a tree 40 to 70 ft. high, which 
