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of Agriculture in French West Africa, came to our notice, 
hey contain an admirable summary of the information which 
has been collected as to the varieties of the Oil Palm in the 
French possessions together with abstracts of papers on the Oil 
Palm in Togoland and the Cameroons (see below). 
It is of interest to notice that M. Adam has treated the subject 
in a precisely similar manner to that which has been adopted in this 
article and that his conclusions are on the same lines as those here : 
reached, 
In Dahomey five varieties of Elacis guineensis are recognised :— 
(1.) Dégbakou abe . Thin shelled variety. 
(2.) Fadé, Agoude .» (Palmier fétiche), 
(3.) De dje ye) ‘ e common variety. 
(4.) Kissédé, Sédé + A variety with green tinted fruits. 
(5.) Votechi jes ; 
A yariety without a definite shell. 
The variety Fadé is the King Palm, the oil of which is only 
used for religious purposes ; it is distinguished from all others by the 
characters of the leaves (see below, also pp. 35, 36), of which an 
pane varieties Dégbakou and Votchi are of considerable interest, 
the former is the now well-known thin-shelled oil palm with a shell 
that the different. varieties of t 
varieties Dégbakou and V otchi, 
pags : roduce true from seed. 
n the varieties Dé and Kissédé the thickness. of the shell is 
: mm. respectively, 
. Three varieties of Oil Palm are 
Coast under the names i 
oe ne i verest to notice that a palm is rded from the 
an ee which bears male p tone diese sGntitto 
as § covered during life by the remains of the old 
In Gui ] | 
occur, mea and Senegal only one type of Oil Palm appears to 
