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found growing in the dense shade underneath were young indi- 

 viduals of the same species as the over-wood. The soil on which 

 the forest is growing is very rocky. 



Close to the village of Sadang, at the foot of the hills, there is 

 a fairly large feeder of the Afram River that may be utilised in 

 exporting down to the Volta, and so on to the sea, the mahogany 

 growing on the northern slopes of the Kwahu hills. 



Between this village and Kwantanan the forests have been much 

 destroyed for farming purposes, but what is left belongs to the 

 type found in the intermediate zone. Neither of us, however, 

 was prepared for the extraordinarily abrupt transition from 

 this type to the dry, open forests of the plains that occurs at that 

 village. We practically stepped out from the village (in a north- 

 easterly direction) into the latter type of forest. 



In the vicinity of Aframsu there is an extensive patch of ever- 

 green forest which follows the Afram River for a long distance. 

 The country is very well watered about here, and several large 

 feeders of that river are crossed within the space of a few miles; 

 heavy rain had just fallen and they were all in flood. The plain 

 itself was also under water. 



Shortly after leaving Aframsu we got into good open forest 

 with trees of excellent growth for that type of vegetation. Four 

 belts of evergreen forest were crossed and we then passed between 

 the two isolated rock hills that stand out of the plain close to 

 the small hunters' village of Jwafuabutan. These two hills are 

 surrounded with forest of good growth. Fine specimens of 

 Afzelia africana, Detarium senegalense, and the dry zone 

 mahogany (Khaya senegalensis) are found here. Some three 

 hours' journey to the north-west of the village the land 

 gradually rises up to a rocky ridge, the lower slopes of which are 

 clothed with excellent forest. Large sheets of rock begin to 

 appear and the village itself is situated on an outcrop of this 

 sort from a pool, from which the inhabitants procure their water. 

 There is an extensive patch of evergreen forest to the north of the 

 village, and a smaller one between it and the more easterly 

 situated hill of the two mentioned above. Further northwards 

 a broad belt of evergreen vegetation follows the course of the 

 Obusumbone River, which is of quite a respectable size. The 

 rest of the vegetation is of the dry zone type. Open grassy 

 glades containing little tree growth are frequently met with and 

 increase in numbers as one approaches Suminsu, where another 

 broad belt of evergreen forest is found along both banks of the 

 Surnin River. As a general rule, about this portion of the un- 

 dulating plains the higher land is clothed with good open forest 

 and the depressions with grassy glades, except where the more 

 important streams have carved out their channels; these are 

 invariably fringed with evergreen forest. Terraces of rock 

 become more plentiful about here and contimie to increase in 

 numbers towards the north-east in the direction of British Krachi. 

 Between Suminsu and Bundasu the fan palm becomes the domi- 

 nant species and covers an extensive tract of country, more par- 

 ticularly towards the north-west between the Bunda and Sene 

 rivers. Shea bnttor trees are plentiful all over this part of the 



