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the winter months (November to February), which is the resting 

 season of the grasses (a period when they are absolutely indifferent 

 to drought), and the prevalence of fierce fires at the same time, 

 severely handicaps the woodland formations in their struggle with 

 the grasses. 



A peculiarity of the West African monsoon forests is the fre- 

 quent occurrence in them of small but pure communities of her- 

 baceous plants belonging to the order Scitamineae. Such patches 

 are composed of species of Amomum, Costus, and Phrynium, the 

 last of which supplies the natives with leaves for thatching pur- 

 poses, and the first mentioned genus a species that yields " the 

 grains of Paradise." Each such patch is pure, and consists prac- 

 tically of one species. 



The mixed deciduous forests of the Gold Coast and Ashanti, be- 

 sides containing to a greater or less extent most of the valuable 

 species whose headquarters are the rain forests, and which have 

 been referred to when describing the latter formation, is composed 

 of the following plants, amongst others, that have not yet been 

 identified or named. 



The Anonacece are represented by 



Monodora brevipes; a small tree. 

 Hexalobus grandi folia; a large tree. 

 Xylopia parviflora; small tree. 

 Xylopia aethiopica; a small tree. 



The Bixinecc by 



Oncoba dentata; a shrub or small tree. 

 Oncoba spinosa; a shrub. 



The Hypericinecc by 



Haronga madagascariensis ; tall shrub. 

 The Malvaceae, by 



Many species of Sida, Urena, and Hibiscus. 



The Bombacecc by 



Eriodendron anfractuosum; a large tree. 



The Sterculiacece by 



Sterculia cordi folia; a large tree. 

 Sterculia tomentosa; a medium-sized tree. 

 Sterculia Barteri; a large tree. 

 Sterculia tragacantha; a tree. 

 Cola latiri folia; a small tree. 

 Cola Afzelii; a small tree. 



The Tiliacece by 



Grewia car pini folia; a shrub. 



Glyphvea grewioides ; a shrub. 



And species of Triumfetta. 

 The Malpighiacece by 



Flabellaria paniculata; a climber. 



Acridocarpus Smeathmanii; a climber. 



Heteropterys africana; a shrub. 

 The Riitacece by 



Xa/ntJio.ryhim spnegalense: a tree. 



