LIBERIA 73 



Dialium Senegalense. Black Tumbler. 



A hard wood, useful in the building trade ; also grows in 

 Sierra Leone. 

 Dialium Englerii. 



Timber useful for many purposes. A refreshing drink is 

 made from the edible fruit. 

 Dialium Dinklagei. 



A small tree with umbrella-like top. 

 Albizzia fastigata. Albizzia. 



All Albizzias are proof against termites. Wood used where 

 durability is required, and therefore very valuable. The 

 branches are pendulous, flowers white and fragrant. Found 

 in Monrovia and Sino Basin. 

 Albizzia Brownei. Albizzia. 



A hard, useful wood. A large forest tree with cracked 

 greyish bark. 

 Albizzia sp. Albizzia. 



A large tree of good form and hard wood. The tree cylinder - 

 shaped, heartwood a bright, pretty colour. Not very plentiful. 

 Quite worthy of export. 

 Detarium Senegalense. Mahogany, Dita. 



A beautifully marked hard wood, with a bole of 30 feet 

 and girth of 12 feet. 

 Pentaclethra macrophylla. Oil Bean Tree. 



Yields oil-bearing seeds or beans, used as an article of food. 

 The ashes after burning the dry pods are useful in soap-making. 

 Parkia filicoidea. Forest Locust or Locust Bean. 



A very common tree in Liberia, but wood of little value. 

 The bean is eaten locally. 

 Erythrina Senegalense. 



Deeply cleft bark ; wood of little value. 

 Piptadenia Africana. 



It grows everywhere in great quantities in Liberia. The 

 wood is hard and valuable. 

 Afrormosia laxiflora. Satinwood. 



A beautiful clear brown wood, used for building purposes. 

 Baphia nitida. Camwood. 



Very valuable as a red dye-wood. 

 Baphia pubescens. Camwood. 



Valuable dye-wood. 

 Cassia podocarpa. 



Grows best on very dry ground ; common on native farms, 

 70 miles up the St. Paul River. Wood extraordinarily hard. 

 Mimosa Dinklagei. 



A small tree found in the coast woods of Grand Basa. 



