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account of its darker colour. Rays just visible as minute 

 flecks which in this section are rather pale ; they contain resin 

 globules. Rings hardly traceable in this section. 



Tangential section as the radial, but the P. (a) is rather more 

 evident as borders to the vessels, which are often twinned. 

 Rays just visible on account of their darker colour ; height 

 from 8-12 cells by 1-3 wide, mostly uniseriate. " Always 

 uniseriate " (Hopkinson, p. 454) ; not in parallel. 



BARK. " Ashy-grey fissured longitudinally and slightly 

 scaly " (Comte de Briey, p. 205). 



USES, ETC. " Window-shutters, etc. ; much attacked by 

 borers " (Unwin, 1920, pp. 438, 445). 



Density, No. 3266, 0-60, or about 37| Ib. per cu. ft. 

 ^ 3006, 0-434 27^ 



Armitage gives for " Affram " 0-568, or about 35 J Ib. 



Conservator's note. " A tall, very straight-growing, deciduous 

 tree ; plentiful in the mixed deciduous forest. Timber some- 

 what similar to the Oak in colour, with a straight grain. Floats 

 when green. Suitable for general joinery work ; used locally 

 by the Public Works Department, for ceiling boards and 

 wooden partitions. Soon attacked by borers." 



Figures. Hopkinson, p. 454, fig. 19, tr. sec. x. about 50. 



Terminalia sp. 



LOCALITY. Nigeria. 



VERNACULAR NAMES. -Emil ; Emril ; Emmiri ; Idigbo ; 

 other names associated with the last mentioned are : Yellow 

 Terminalia ; Blackbark Terminalia ; Opepe and Epepe (both 

 com. to Sarcocephalus) ; Egoyn nebbi ; Egoyn nikwi ; Egoyn 

 lukan. 



Description of the wood from a specimen No. 3005 " Idigbo," 

 received from the Government of Nigeria (Empire Timber 

 Exhibition, 1920). It agrees in all important details with the 

 foregoing species. 



STRUCTURE. As in T. superba, with exception of the following 

 details. 



GENERAL CHARACTERS. Colour, yellow, deepening distinctly 

 on exposure. Grain, rather inclined. Weight heavier. Smell 

 recalling that of the Californian Poppy, fragrant. 



Transverse section. See PI. IV, fig. 6. 



