12 WEST AFRICAN FORESTS AND FORESTRY 



V. WESTERN CIRCLE, NIGERIA. 



Ebuttemetta Gardens. 



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27. Large Teak Tree (Tectona grandis), about sixteen years old, Ebuttemetta 



Gardens ........... 150 



28. Large Para {Hevea Braziliensis), Ebuttemetta Gardens, age about sixteen 



years ........... 150 



VI. WESTERN CIRCLE, NIGERIA. 



Olokemeji Arboretum and Railway Plantation and Two 

 Studies of Capsules. 



29. The Chief Conservator of Forests' House, with five-year-old Albizzia 



Lcbbek standing beside it . . . . . . . .162 



30. Three capsules of Mahogany (Khaya grandis Ivoriensis and Punchii), 



from banks of Owena River . . . . . . .162 



31. Capsules of three species of Entandrophragma : E. macrophylluyn, the 



largest ; E. utilis, the next in size ; and E. cyUndricum, the smallest 1 62 



32. Cedrela odorata, seven years old, with Forest Office in backgroimd, 



Olokemeji 174 



33. Cedrela odorata, Cigar-box Cedar, girth 5 feet, twelve years old, Oloke- 



meji Arboretvun .......... 174 



34. Teak (Tectona grandis), ten years old, Olokemeji Arboretimi . . 174 



35. Teak, six years old, Olokemeji Arboretum . . . . . .184 



36. Khaya Senegalensis, five years old, from seed obtained by H. N. 



Thompson, Esq., in Shaki District . . . . . .184 



37. Mature Iroko Tree {Chlorophora excelsa), over 12 feet in girth in 1911, 



since cut down and used for building the Chief Conservator of 

 Forests' house . . . . . . . . . .184 



VII. NORTHERN PROVINCES, NIGERIA. 



38. Marsh or " fadama " with islets of foliage, Benue overflow near Yola . 196 



39. The Lower Niger in flood 196 



40. Fringing Forest on River Benue, in the rainy season .... 196 



41. A Baobab (Adansonia digitata) ....... 208 



42. Giginya or " Fan Palm " (Borassus flabellijer, var. jEthiopum), with water- 



lilies (Nymphceacece) ......... 208 



VIII. WESTERN CIRCLE, OLOKEMEJI ARBORETUM. 



43. Mahogany (Khaya grandis), 6^ years old, showing bent leader, owing to 



previous one being eaten out by the leading-shoot borer . . .216 



44. 1909 Mahogany (Khaya grandis and K. Punchii) Plantation after six 



years' growth, near road to Chief Conservator's house, Olokemeji 

 Arboretiun 216 



45. The largest Mahogany (Khaya Punchii), seven years old, Olokemeji 



Arboretum, in the Forest Reserve . . . . . .216 



46. Corner of the 1908 Teak Plantation, Olokemeji Arboretum, showing 



it at the end of the dry season, March 1915, Captain Owens . 228 



47. Cedrela odorata, Cigar-box Cedar, three years old (seen close), 



R. E. Dennett, Esq 228 



48. Comer tree of the 1908 Teak Plantation, with H. N. Thompson, Esq., 



1911 228 



49. Shea Butter Tree (Butyrospermum Parkii), standing near the Conservator 



of Forests' house, June 1915, after being protected from fire eight 

 years 234 



