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cork-like and deeply corrugated, the wood brownish and very 



hard. Height, 35 ft. 

 Combretum Kerstingii. Alembole (Tschandjo). 



Hard, greyish-brown wood, used for firewood. 

 Terminalia dictyoneura. Ssua (Tschandjo). 

 Terminalia macroptera. Ssua dau (Tschandjo). 



These two Terminalia both have a beautiful glossy brown 



wood, useful for many purposes. Both are about 48| feet in 



height. 

 Terminalia Baumannii. Opati (Atakpame). 



A beautiful prairie tree, the wood not yet tried. 

 Terminalia super ba. 

 Terminalia Togoensis. 

 Pteleopsis Kerstingii. Ssissina (Tschandjo). 



A fair-sized tree in the Bassari savannah. The natives say 



it has neither flowers nor fruit, but this naturally cannot be 



the case. 

 Anogeissus leiocarpus. Tsetse or Echeche (Ewe) ; Kodelia 



(Tschandjo) ; Anyi (Anago) ; Ogo (Akposso) ; Kanna (Asante) ; 



Kakanla (Kratschi) ; Chleho (F6). 



A tree 97| feet high, growing on the river banks and on the 



moist savannahs, very widespread. The fruit is much like 



that of our alder. The wood very hard, proof against attacks 



of the termites, with a black heartwood like ebony, and used 



as such. The most valuable wood of the Colony. 



Myrtaceae. 



Syzygium Guineense. Tschapea (Tschandjo). 



A fair-sized tree on the shore slopes. A white, easily-worked 

 wood. Used by the natives for making tools, images of their 

 gods, chairs, etc. In some parts for building purposes. 



Araliacese. 



Cussonia Barteri. Fegblo (Ewe) ; Kongolu (Tschandjo) ; Indoa- 

 baka (Mangu) ; Digo (Anago) ; Obbo (Akposso) ; Bonugu 

 (Misahohe) ; Gotti (Fo). 



A characteristic tree of the Baobab savannahs near Misahohe. 

 The wood is spongy and cannot be worked, but the ashes are 

 of use in making a blue dye. 



Umbelliferse. 



Peucedanum araliaceum, var. fraxinifolium. Lando (Tschandjo). 

 A tree under medium height, of the pasture lands. The 

 bark of the young shoots is used for squirts and syringes The 

 wood is easy to cut. 



