20 COLONIAL REPORTS MISCELLANEOUS. 



colour, hard and very durable. Tin- Kaku is a medium-sized 

 free, confined to the evergreen forests of the niar/timc /one. and 

 its northern limit is roughly about the latitude of Lhinkwa 

 Station on the railway. It is very partial to .swampy areas, 

 seeds freely, and has the age gradations fairly well represented. 

 It furnishes one of the best fuel woods of West Africa. 



8. The Xya-mc-dna (Al*t<mia nmyensis). This species is also 

 partial to the swamps. The wood is whitish in colour, soft, and 

 much used for the manufacture of native stools. The latex is 

 used for adulterating that of Fuiitumia e/astica. 



9. The >Dul>hn (Khaya sp.). This is the common mahogany 

 of the Gold Coast, and appears to be closely related to Khaya 

 Punchii, of Southern Nigeria. It sometimes attains enormous 

 dimensions, and one huge example was seen on the eastern 

 boundary of the Concession. Like all members of this genus, 

 it exudes a gum from any injuries made on the lower portion 

 of the bole. The bulk of the mahogany shipped from the Gold 

 Coast is procured from this species. 



10. The Emril (species of Terminalia) has somewhat the habit 

 of the Off ram. The wood is of a yellowish colour, has a pretty 

 grain, and is well suited for house boarding- and other internal 

 fittings. It is fairly durable. 



In the older forests the species that maintain their donii- 

 nances are, in descending order of frequency, the silk-cotton 

 tree (Eriodendi-on anfractuosiim), the above-mentioned 

 Dahomah (Piptadenia africana)', the KnT\n (Lopliira procera), 

 in swampy and moist localities; the Wau'-waw (Triplochiton 

 Johnsonii) on higher ground; the Offram (Terminalia superbfi); 

 the Gold Coast mahogany, Dubini of the Fantis (species close to 

 K/iatja PuncJiii); the Baku (Mimu.sops Djave), which occasionally 

 grows to an enormous size and yields an excellent wood; the 

 Kokoti (Pynaertia ealaensis), another good timber tree that also 

 yields a first-class fuel; the Punkwa (Pseiidocedrela cylindrica), 

 which produces the bulk of the cedar shipped to Europe ; the 

 Odo u in (Chlorophora ea'-celsa), that furnishes the most useful 

 wood in "West Africa; the oil-bean tree, Athawali of the Fantis 

 (Pentacletfira macrophylla), the seeds of which are rich in vege- 

 table fats; the Ote (a species of Myrixtica); the Essia (Coin- 

 bretum species) ; the Asomah (Parl'ia species) ; and the red- 

 flowered silk-cotton tree (Bomba.r buonopozense) . 



Among the rarer trees the following species were noticed: 



The Kixlna (Sarcocephalus esculentus), the timber of 

 which is of a bright yellowish colour, hard and very durable- 

 tins species attains a large size in these moist forests, but 

 further inland, in the dry Savannah forests, it acquires the 

 habit of a shrub: the Ttiinnrc (I)ctarium species), a good timber 

 tree of lofty dimensions: the A irama (Ridnodendron (ifricanus), 

 the seeds of which are rich in oil ; T el ra pleura Tlintiuinaii, 

 with edible fruit; and Antiaris to.ricaria var. africana, a large 

 tree, the bast fibres of which are beaten out to form a native 

 cloth. 



