40 COLONIAL REPORTS MISCELLANEOUS. 



Tliis portion has been well exploited, and the numerous dragging 

 paths enabled us to get in all directions good clear views of the 

 forest, only attainable otherwise by keeping to the roads or the 

 beds of streams. 



Several species of trees new to us were found here ; unfor- 

 tunately they could not, for want of flowering or fruiting 

 specimens, be identified. They include: 



The Jim illicit, a mediuin-si/ed deciduous-leafed tree (it was 

 quite bare of foliage at the time of our visit), that possesses a 

 very corky bark covered with small, circular depressions; the 

 wood is said to be gootl and to have sometimes been exported to 

 Europe. 



The Dabima (Waw-Saw name) or tiiriko (Apollonian name), 

 also a small tree, with a bright yellow wood, which is used by 

 the natives for manufacturing door and window frames. A 

 yellow dye is extracted from the bark, which is further used 

 both as a medicine for ulcers and for making "bitters." In 

 addition to this, a boiled decoction of the bark is used as a 

 medicine for stomach-aches. This is apparently quite a useful 

 tree to the natives. 



The Kwate prepre (Waw-Saw name). A tall tree with the 

 bark of a Cyanothyrsus and the foliage of a Khaya. It does not 

 appear to be put to any use by the natives. A new species of 

 silk-cotton tree, the Nyi-na-kobin (Boinbax brevicuspe), was 

 discovered here. It grows to a large size and sheds its 

 leaves in the dry season ; the natives use a decoction of the bark 

 for dyeing their cloths a rich reddish-brown colour. The dye 

 is said to be a fast one. The bark is first beaten and then soaked 

 in water and the cloth allowed to remain in this infusion for 

 three or four days, which allows sufficient time for the fibres to 

 be thoroughly stained. The stems of this species are often 

 hollowed out into canoes, which are said to last for three years. 

 The Burmese make a similar use of the stems of the Dido tree 

 (Bombaa; malabaricum) . 



A new species of Parinarium that grows into a fine large tree 

 with a spreading crown was discovered in this locality. The 

 particular specimen felled was much festooned with a rubber- 

 vine, Landolphia Klainei, which is fairly abundant about 

 here. Other species of rubber-yielding vines, such as LandolpJiia 

 owariensis, and a species that appears to be the typical 

 L. Droogmansiana of De Willdeniau, are also to be met with in 

 this forest. 



Khayas (the ordinary Dubini of the moist forests of the Gold 

 Coast) and two species of Pseudocedrela, the Punkwa and Tiama- 

 Titinia, are fairly numerous, though large numbers, especially of 

 the former, have heen felled for the timber trade. 



The age gradations of these more important species are better 

 represented here than is usually the case with the over-mature 

 woods of_ this country. On the whole I think that an early 

 opportunity should be taken to reserve as much as possible of the 

 valuable forests clothing the drainage area of the Sibiri stream. 



A particularly fine bamboo, apparently a species of Dendro- 

 calamus, that forms extensive clumps, is rather common about 



