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Rings apparently well defined, the more or less pore-less zone 

 may indicate the boundary. 



Radial section. Rays readily visible as small hoary flakes. 

 Vessels open, mostly empty. Parenchyma (a) appears as 

 borders to the vessels, obscure, visible with macroscope as 

 excessively fine, vertical white lines. 



Tangential section as the radial, but the rays are visible 

 only with lens as very fine hoary lines up to twenty cells 

 high, and not more than four wide (mostly bi-seriate). The 

 Parenchyma (a) comes out more prominently in fringes and 

 tracery. 



SAPWOOD well and rather sharply defined from the heart- 

 wood ; colour, dark oatmeal. The rays apparently begin to be 

 coloured before the other elements. 



Pith ? Bark ? 



Density, No. 4039, 0-883, or about 55 Ib. per cu. ft. 



USES. Should be useful locally for purposes needing a hard 

 wood which works cleanly and is not coarse in the grain, 

 but it has no special merit that would recommend it for 

 export. 



Terminalia superba, Engl. and Diels. 

 Combretacese. Gen. No. 2249. 



LOCALITIES. Sierra Leone, Gold Coast, Togo, British sphere 

 Cameroons, Nigeria, Congo. 



VERNACULAR NAMES. Aaha ; Afara (com. to T. scutifera) ; 

 Affram (see note) ; Almond ? ; Bokome ; Djombe ; Egoyn 

 nufwa ; Kojagei ; Limba ; Mukonja ; Mukonja, weiss ; Nkom ; 

 Oaha ; Off ram ; Olokemeji ; Shingle-wood ; Zimingela. 



NOTE. Egoyn or Agoyn, variously spelt and qualified, seem 

 to be common to several Terminalias. 



H. N. Thompson (1910, p. 19) mentions an "Affram" of 

 the Fantis which is " near Parinarium." Chevalier (1909, 

 p. 151) cites " Fram " under T. altissima, Chev., from the 

 Ivory Coast, a species very near the present. 



Description of the wood from specimens Nos. 3006 (Empire 

 Timber Exhibition, 1920), 3266 (from Oni), both received 

 from the Government of Nigeria. Our other specimens bearing 

 native names similar to those listed above (Agoyn, Emmiri, 

 Isa and Issieh), and another received as being T. velutina from 



