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It is wonderfully effective, and it is surprising that this wood 

 is not more largely employed. No. 4033 received from the 

 Government of Nigeria (Benin) agrees with the above, but is 

 poorer in colour, being greyish rather than golden. The con- 

 centric gum-galls are very marked, in some cases being of 

 three rows deep. No. 3914 " African Walnut " from Cape 

 Lopez also agrees, but is a coarser, more porous wood. The 

 " Kwatinura," No. 2798 HS., collected by Capt. Armitage and 

 labelled " Lovoa klaineana," and our specimens of " Penkwa " 

 from the Gold Coast are quite unlike the type, and the " Kwa- 

 tinru," No. 3028 from the G.C., is still more unlike and differs 

 from the " Kwatinura " just cited. 



LOCALITIES mentioned for Lovoa : Sierra Leone, Gold 

 Coast, Liberia, French Gaboon (Congo franaise), Nigeria, 

 Uganda. , 



VERNACULAR NAMES. Akwantanuro ; Abuwe ; Anamam- 

 milla (com. to Ubellu) ; Alone ; Apobo ; Apopo ; Enonee ; 

 Ikwahobo ; Kwantanuro (com.) ; Kwatenura ; Pebedum ; 

 Pepedum ; Penkwa (com. to Entandrophragma sp.) ; Walnut, 

 African. 



GENERAL CHARACTERS. A comparatively light and soft wood 

 resembling Mahogany as regards the grain, but not in colour, 

 which in this case is golden brown of quite peculiar tint and 

 lustre. Grain, medium, coarse and open, very cross. Much 

 black in the bait and concentric resin-galls frequent, producing 

 blackish lines here and there and enhancing rather than detract- 

 ing from the effect. " Smell of Cedar " (Chevalier, 1917, p. 

 130). Shade of the transverse section perhaps a little lighter 

 than that of the other sections. Not likely to soil. 



Description from a specimen, No. 2904 from S. Nigeria, 

 with which others, from commercial sources, agree. 



STRUCTURE. Resembles that of Swietenia and other Maho- 

 ganies. 



Transverse section. (Prepared with broken glass.) See PL 

 IV, fig. 3. 



Parenchyma of one kind only : (a) readily visible to the 

 unaided eye on account of its light colour, sheaths the pores 

 and not too narrowly, occasionally extending to concentric 

 lines, which, though in some cases continuous, are for the most 

 part short ; width of lines about twice the breadth of a ray 



