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‘peach ” or ** fig”: eaten in excess it acts as an emetic (Journ. 
Soc. Arts. xxxv. 1887, p: 995, S. esculentus). 
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esi 
(Dudgeon, Agric. and For. Prod. B. W. Afr. p.138). The bark 
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The leaves are also used for medicinal purposes in French 
Guinea (L'Agric. prat. pays chauds, xi. part 2, 1911, p. 139) 
. Frang. fase. v. p. 230); cut into boards and used for 
tables, Sierra Leone (Scott Elliot, Col. Rep. Misc. No. 3, 1893, 
Sarcocephalus esculentus, p. 35); makes good fuel (Thompson, 
Col. Rep. Misc. No. 66, 1910, p. 90); variously described as 
yellowish, no difference in heartwood and sapwood (Chevalier, 
Col. Rep. Mise. No. 66, 1910, p- 20, S. esculentus); a shrub common 
in the bush, Kontagora (Dalziel, Herb. Kew, S. Russegeri); a 
middle-sized tree, Sudan (Broun, Herb. Kew, S. Russegeri). 
