DESCRIPTION OF SPECIES 



Scottellia kamerunensis, Gilg. Bixaceae. Gen, No. 523. 



As Dasylepis in Hooker's Icones Plant. XIII. t. 226k 



LOCALITIES. Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Gaboon. 



VERNACULAR NAMES. Akosica ; Akossica (not Assoseka, as 

 Chevalier (1909, pp. 148 and 269) mentions both separately). 

 Edde; Edde ; Okilolo ; Belarbinekele. 



Description of the wood from a specimen No. 3008 " Ako- 

 sica " (Empire Timber Exhib. 1920) received from the Govern- 

 ment of Nigeria. 



GENERAL CHARACTERS. A moderately hard and heavy wood 

 of a nearly uniform white colour with a suggestion of yellow 

 here and there. The colour hardly deepens, but the wood 

 loses its brilliance when weathered. Surface clean, not cold 

 to the touch, dry, soils easily. Shade of the transverse section 

 a little browner and darker than that of the other sections. 

 Grain fine, open, straight. Smell, none. 



STRUCTURE. Very characteristic. 



Transverse section. (Prepared with glass-paper.) See PL IV, 

 fig. 4. Parenchyma of one kind : (a) vasicentric, just visible 

 with the unaided eye as fine specks around the orifices of the 

 pores ; scanty. 



Vessels just visible with lens as perforations, very small, 

 uniform in size and fairly so in distribution, but with a tendency 

 to collect in zones ; rather crowded ; 50-60 per sq. mm. ; 

 arrangement indefinite ; shape, shortly oval ; contents, light 

 golden resin in small quantity and also a little of a darker 

 colour. Proportion of the wood about one-third. 



Rays very easily visible, being very large, numerous and 

 white ; of two kinds ; the larger milk-white, irregular in size, 

 fairly regular in spacing, gently curved, otherwise straight ; 

 many thin ends and all tapering strongly inwards ; not nodose 



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