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TOGOLAND. 
According to the report of the Governor,* and from the paper 
‘Beas Gruner four varieties of the Oil Palm are known in 
Tegel 
They ous the following native names— 
(1.) ae ..» Dechla (Gruner) 
(2.) — ... Agodé or Klude (Gruner). 
(3.) D vi ... Ede or Deti. 
(4.) Di dé are ... Sedde 
No. 1 has thin shells which can be broken with the teeth and is 
said to require much moisture to grow in perfection ; in a di 
climate it approaches the common form. It is spread everywhere 
in the proportion of about 25 per cent. (Governor, Togo) and of 
3-10 “a cent. in the palm groves of Misahéhe (Gruner). 
No. 2. This is the sacred palm. According to the Governor of 
Togo an appears to be regularly cultivated and “Les féticheurs ” 
cast lots with the nuts of this palm. Gruner states that the calyx 
segments are fleshy, red and contain oil. The leaves are easily 
recognised by their fused segments, but it is affirmed that these 
pa alms are never cultivated since only the common Deti is produced 
from the seeds of Klude.t To solve this question, | Dr. Gruner 
states that he sowed 2,000 seeds of Klude at Misahohe in the spring 
of 1903, but the results do not yet appear to have been vrbliehied. 
No. 3 is the typical form of Elaeis guineensis. 
No. 4 contains less oil than the typical form and does not appear 
to be a plant of great value. 
ANGOLA. 
From Angola§ four varieties are reported :— 
(a.) Varieties with a thin or cartilaginous shells and oblong 
fruits— 
(1.) Disombé ... ... Thin shell cracked by teeth 
(2.) Digumbé ... Shell reduced to fibrous strands. 
(b.) Varieties with a hard anf shell— 
(hyd. ci ck epicarp becoming yellow- 
See fe ir 
(2.) Dihfisué ... ws Epica —s greenish tinge at 
e bas 
Welwitsch in his “ Apontamentos,” p. 584, describes two varieties 
of the Oil Palm.—(1) A var. macrosperma (Dihdhé) from Icolo, and 
Bengo, Angola, which, from his description, appears to be a thick- 
shelled aren of the typical Oil Palm. The endocarp is 4—4°25 mm. 
* See prime _ Le., 1908, p. 
’ Die 0: cps 4 im Bezirk Misahéhe, Togo, in Der Tropen- 
+ Dr. G 
phlanczer, VIL, a O04. B bP. 283-29 
G Le 
& Sec wade fen ee ba 1908. . 466, quoted from Almeida, J.J. Noticia sobre 
a Pardo as Denden. Linbot, 1906, 
