234 WEST AFRICAN FORESTS AND FORESTRY 



8th Class Trees. 

 Minimum girth limit, 12 inches. 



Fees — On trees over 24 inches in girth, M. per tree. 



On trees 12 to 24 inches in girth, 3d. per tree. 

 Rhizophora racemosa. Red Mangrove. Egba (Yoruba). 

 Rhizophora mangle. Red Mangrove. 

 Avicennia Africana. White Mangrove. Ofun (Yoruba). 



For the purposes of this schedule, the girths must be measured 

 at a vertical distance of 4 feet 6 inches from the ground at the foot 

 of the tree, or in the case of buttressed trees at the place where the 

 highest buttress merges into the stem. 



SCHEDULE B 

 PROTECTED MINOR FOREST PRODUCE 



1st Class. 

 Fee, 15s. ; Royalty, 5s. ; Total, 205. per permit. 



Rubber — taken from wild rubber-yielding trees and vines. 



2nd Class. 

 Fee, Is. 6d. ; Royalty, 2s. Qd. ; Total, IO5. per permit. 



Bamboo poles — taken from the midribs of the Tombo palm [Raphia 

 vinifera) or other species of Raphia. Piassava fibre from the stem 

 and midribs (leaf stalks) of the Raphia and other species of palms. 



And in the Northern Provinces : 



Poles, gofas, etc., not to exceed 6 inches in diameter, taken from 

 Isoberlinia sp., Anogeissus leiocarpus, Ormosia laxiflora, Lophira alata 

 or Pterocarpus erinaceus. 



3rd Class. 

 Fee, 4s. 6d. ; Royalty, Is. M. ; Total, 6s. per permit. 



Chew-sticks — or native tooth-brushes taken from the roots of 

 the lyin tree [Anogeissus leiocarpus). 



Native sponges — made from the bast fibres of various species 

 of vines and lianes. 



Pandanus fibre (from the screw pine) and the leaf stalk of all 

 species of Phryniura, taken for the manufacture of mats. 



Gum copal. 



Gum arabic — and other gums jorocured from Acacias. 



