: APPENDIX, No. V. 467 
Many of the Trees, the Palms, and several other remarkable plants, which 
characterise the landscape, as Adansonia, Bombax pentandrum, Anthocleista, 
Musanga of the natives (the genus related to Cecropia,) Elais euineensis, 
Raphia vinifera, and Pandanus Candelabrum, appear to be very general 
along the whole extent of coast. 
Sterculia acuminata,* the seed of which is the Cola, mentioned in the 
earliest accounts of Congo, exists, and is equally valued, in Guinea and Sierra 
Leone, and what is remarkable, has the same name in every part of the west 
coast. 
The Ordeal Tree noticed in Professor Smith’s journal under the name of 
Cassa; and in Captain Tuckey’s narrative erroneously called a species of 
Cassia, if not absolutely the same plant as the Red Water Tree of Sierra 
Leone,+ and as it is said also of the Gold Coast, belongs at least to the same 
genus, , 
A species of the Cream Fruit, mentioned by Professor Afzelius,t remarkable 
in affording a wholesome and pleasant saccharine fluid, used by the natives of 
Sierra Leone even to quench their thirst, though the plant belongs to Apoci- 
nez, a family so generally deleterious, was also met with. 
The Sarcocephalus of the same author,§ which is probably what he has 
noticed under the name of the country-fig of Sierra Leone,|) was found, and 
seems to be not uncommon, on the banks of the Congo. 
Anona Senegalensis, whose fruit, though smaller than that of the cultivated 
species of the genus, has, according to Mr. Lockhart, a flavour superior to any 
of them, was every where observed, especially above Embomma, and appears 
to be a very general plant along the whole extent of coast : 
_ And Chrysobalanus Icaco, or a species very nearly related to it, which is 
equally common from Senegal to Congo, was found abundantly near the 
mouth of the river. 
’ 
The remarks I have to make on Esculent Plants, my knowledge of which 
is chiefly derived from the journals of Captain Tuckey and Professor Smith, 
* De Beaunvois. Flore d’Oware 1, p. Al, t. 24. 
+ Winterbotiom’s Sierra Leone 1, p. 129. 
${ Sterra Leone Report for 1794, p. 113, n. AT. 
§ In Herb. Banks. | Op. cit. p. 171, n. 32. 
