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Many of the Trees, tlie Palms, and several other remarkable plants, whicli 

 cliaracterise the landscape, as Adamonia, Bombax pentandrum, Anthoclelsta, 

 Musanga of the natives (the genus related to Cecropia,) Elceis guineensis, 

 Raphia vinifera, and Pandanus Candelabrum, appear to be very general 

 along the whole extent of coast. 



Sterculia acuminata* the seed of whicli is the Cola, mentioned in the 

 earliest accounts of Congo, exists, and is equally valued, in Guinea and Sierra 

 Leone, and what is remarkable, has the same name in every part of the west 

 coast. 



The Ordeal Tree noticed in Professor Smith's journal under the name of 

 Cassa; and in Captain Tuckey's narrative erroneously called a species of 

 Cassia, if not absolutely the same plant as the Red Water Tree of Sierra 

 Leone,f and as it is said also of the Gold Coast, belongs at least to the same 

 genus. 



A species of the Cream Fruit, mentioned by Professor Afzelius,| remarkable 

 in affording a wholesome and pleasant saccharine fluid, used by the natives of 

 Sierra Leone even to quench their tliirst, though the plant belongs to Apoci- 

 neae, a family so generally deleterious, was also met with. 



The Sarcocephalus of the same author,§ which is probably what he has 

 noticed under the name of the country-fig of Sierra Leone,|| was found, and 

 seems to be not uncommon, on the banks of the Congo. 



Anona Senegalensis, whose fruit, though smaller than that of the cultivated 

 species of the genus, has, according to Mr. Lockhart, a flavom- superior to any 

 of them, was every where observed, especially above Embomma, and appears 

 to be a very general plant along the whole extent of coast : 



And Chrysobalanus Icaco, or a species very nearly related to it, which is 

 equally common from Senegal to Congo, was found abundantly near the 

 mouth of the river. 



The remarks I have to make on Esculent Plants, my knowledge of which 

 is chiefly derived from" the journals of Captain Tuckey and Professor Smith, 



* De Beauvois. Flore d'Oware 1, p. 41, /. 24. 



+ Winterbotlom's Sierra Leone I, p. 129. 



+ Sierra Leone Report for \19i, p. 173, n. 4T. 



^ In Herb. Banks. \ Op. ell. p. 171, n. 32. 



