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modify the colour ; they occupy about half the surface ; height 

 about eighteen cells by 2-4 rows wide, uniseriate rays being 

 rare or absent ; cells full of resin. The rays are not in parallel, 

 but show a tendency to arrange themselves in oblique lines 

 (in echelon). 



SAPWOOD " white, narrow " (Unwin, p. 286). 

 BARK "resembles that of Pine" (p. 431); " inclined to 

 scale off in small pieces, and in the distance looks practically 

 smooth " (p. 288). " Resembles the bark of Spruce ; the 

 scales have carmine-red separation layers like those of the 

 Larch " (Busgen ex. Harms, p. 28). 



USES, ETC. " An enormous trunk ; root-spurns slight and 

 rounded" (Unwin, p. 286); "very durable under cover; 

 termite-proof ; heartwood softens considerably in the open " 

 (p. 286). 



Density, No. 3011, 0-69, or about 43 Ib. per cu. ft. 



1891, 1-008 63 



2765, 0-77 48 



1846, 0-995 62} 



2802, 1-03 64J 



Piptadenia africana, Hook, f. Leguminosae : Mimosese. 

 Gen. No. 1982. 



LOCALITIES. Everywhere in Africa from the Tropics to 

 Delagoa Bay ; Sierra Leone, Gold Coast, Liberia, Togo, Nigeria, 

 Cameroons (British sphere), Congo. 



VERNACULAR NAMES. Abe ; Agboin ; Aga-iji (com. to 

 Cylicodiscus) ; Akan ; Balondo ; Bolondo ; Chen ; Dabema ; 

 Dahomah ; Dahuma ; Denya (com. to Cylico) ; Ebbome ; 

 Edundu (com. to many fine-leaved Leguminous trees according 

 to Harms, 1911, p. 22) ; Ehe ; Ekhimi ; Ekkimi ; Ehimi ; 

 Ensale ; Erundu ; Ewon ; Gbon ; G'bon ; Greenheart (com.) ; 

 Greenheart, light African ; Ikkimi ; Iteruku ; Jondo ; K'ku- 

 perb ; Kuangua-iniama ; Kuperf ; Mbeli (not Mbeli-deli, see 

 Cylico) ; Mbeliguli ; Mpwere (of W. Uganda, not of Chagwe) ; 

 Muneunza ; Muzungo ; Nainvi ; Nchoumbou ; Odenya (com. 

 to Cylico) ; Odahuma ; Ofrafraha ; Okan (com.) ; Pao Mus- 

 ence ; Redwood ; Sanga ; Singa ; Wunga ; Nchioumbou ; Troum. 



Description of the wood from specimens Nos. 3104 (Empire 

 Timber Exhibition, 1920), 3267 and 3288 (from Oni) " Agboin." 



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