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Chlorophora eacelsa (Plate 23), “ Odoum ” furnishes the best all- 
round timber in tropical West Africa, it is plentiful in Ashanti; 
among other trees of first importance are the West African cedars 
of the genus Pseudocedrela (Plates 10-13). 
The genus Khaya, the Gold Coast mahogany, is represented by 
several species; five are figured in the Report (Plates 4~8 incl.). 
It is unfortunate that the species known as “ Dubini” by the 
Fantis has not yet been properly determined owing to lack of 
sufficient material, since it is stated that the bulk of the Gold 
—- mahogany is afforded by this species (Plate 8). 
n addition to Piptadenia africana, a common timber tree, there 
is aan species figured in the Report at Plate 17 under the 
name Pipiadenia sp., a timber tree of some importance and very 
prevalent in Southern Ashanti. 
Since the publication of the Report this species has been 
einer with Cylicodiscus gabunensis, Harms, a plant which was, 
il lately, very imperfectly known. vai tis, Gaya was originally 
‘soneiiba rom flowerin if specimens collected b x in Gaboon 
and by Staudt in the Cameroons, whilst ee ite babes for the 
basis of another new genus, Cyrtoxiphus, and as not until 1906 
Nigeria by Dr. Unwin an r. Foster, and its area extends 
evidently throughout the greater part of the West African forest 
regi 
re good timber which also yields a first-class fuel is the “ Kokoti,” 
to which the name Pynaertia ealaensis is given in the Report. A 
note on this tree appeared in the Kew eat 1909, pp. 309-312, 
in which it is shewn that this tree, a mem of the natural order 
Rhizophoraceae, should be referred to Engler s genus Anopyzis and 
should bear the name Anopyzis ealaensi 
r. Thompson points out the wealth of the Ashanti forests, 
which conta large quantities of Pseudocedrelas, a 
Funtumias and other valuable trees. He is of the opinion that 
date) effort should be made to protect these forests and bring 
them er organized control. It is perhaps fortunate that at 
srendit the mass of this forest area is not easily accessible. 
Of these forests in general he remarks : “I think that in sa? 
and variety of valuable trees these extensive forests of Weste 
Ashanti will be hard to match anywhere in Africa. Moreover, the 
undergrowth is not so ‘ane as that prevailing in evergreen forests 
to be met with near the coast, and in consequence the natu 
regeneration of the more important species is far more satisfactory 
and the gaps in the various age gradations less pronounced.”* 
The Savannah forests of North-Western Ashanti appear to 
greater need of forest conservancy in some ways than the forests of 
the moist regions, since they form the belt between the open grass 
land and the country where there is greater moisture. It is in this 
region of mixed deciduous forests that fire protection is an essential 
® Thompson l.c., p 61. 
