ILLUSTRATIONS 



Mixed Evergreen Forest on the edge of Barombo Lake (Elephant 



Lake). Cotton Trees in foreground .... Frontispiece 



II. SIERRA LEONE. 



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 Red Ironwood (Lop/jiro jsrocera), in the Forest, Gumah . . .16 



Mature Cola Tree (Cola vera), growing in Fundo village. Protectorate of 



Sierra Leone . . . . . . . . . .16 



View of Gumah Mountain from the Gumah . . . . .16 



African Oak {Oldfieldia Africana), showing bole in middle fore- 

 ground, near Bureh Town Br'dge ...... 24 



African Oak (Oldfieldia AJricana), showing scaly bark at base of tree, the 



late Mr. C. W. Smythe standing beside it . . . . .24 



Pterocarpus esculentus in flower near Fakar Kole, at the edge of the 



Peninsular Forest ......... 40 



Forest of true Gum Copal (Copaifera salikounda), showing nearly all the 

 trees bare of foliage and dying, due to overtapping, near Sussuwuru, 

 Moyamba District ......... 40 



True Gum Copal (Copaifera salikounda), showing base of stem with 

 tapping squares, near the bank of the Rokell River, north of Moyamba 

 District 40 



III. LIBERIA. 



10. Large Brimstone Tree (Sarcocephalus sp.), Gola Forest ... 66 



11. African Satinwood (AJrormosia laxifiora), Gola Forest ... 66 



12. Gola Forest, general view, near Morro River ..... 80 



13. Mahogany (Khaya Ivoriensis), the late Mr. C. W. Smythe standing beside 



it, Gola Forest 80 



14. Young Yawey Cedar (Heritiera ?), Gola Forest ..... 80 



IV. TOGO. 



15. Teak Plantation of 1908, 35| feet high, Sokode, in 1911 



16. Teak Plantation of 1907 and 1908 on hill-side, Atakpame 



17. One-year-old Oil Palms amongst seven- to ten-year-old trees, 



18. Two-year-old Oil Palm Plantation, Sokode 



19. Three-year-old Oil Palm Plantation, Sokode 



20. Four-year-old Oil Palm Plantation, Sokode 



21. Chlorophora excelsa, 1911 ..... 



22. Five-year-old Oil Pahn Plantation, Sokode 



23. Five-year-old Khaya Senegalensis, 1911 



24. Teak Plantation made in 1907 at Pfandu, in 1911 



25. Khaya Klaineana, 17 feet in girth, Misahohe Station 



26. Comer of a 1907 Teak Plantation, Pfandu, in 1911 



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