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Bahia, Sofo (French Ivory Coast, Chevalier, Courtet); Séfono, 
Ogouwa (French Ivory Coast, Courtet); Mun o (Golungo Alto, 
Welwitsch) ; Kobodigansu (Sierra Leone, Scott Elliot); Fofo, 
Popo (French Guinea, Pobéguin), Bois de Bahia, Tilleul 
eiim (Chevalier). 
Eppah (Barter) Nun 2: Hann), and found also in Sierra 
Leone, Gold Coast, Angola, 
The wood is used by Apes for making canoes (Mann, Herb. 
Kew), for housebuilding and furniture in Angola (Hiern. Cat. 
Welw. Afr. Pl. ii. p. 435) and for de work and cabinet 
Fop 
‘West African Mahogany" (Thompson, Col. Misc 
No. Ré 1910, p. 21) and exploited for timber on the Gold Cotes 
(Le. p. 36). 
The leaves are used for wrapping Kola nuts (Cola acuminata), 
Sierra Leone (Scott Elliot, Herb. Kew, No. 4752; Col. R : 
No. 3, 1893, p. 55; Pobéguin, PI. Med. du Guin. Franç. in 
L'Agric. prat. pay s chauds, xi 3. 1911, p. 43); used medicinally 
as also the bark in T French Guinea (l.c.). The roots are boiled and 
eaten for colie in Sierra Leone (Scott Elliot, l.c 
The tree is found in swamps, Gold Coast Gm poa, rep: 255 
from 100—114 ft., with a trunk up to i ft. without branching, and 
from 32-40 in. in diameter, common on the banks of ri vers and 
. 495, 
forests of t Eppah (Barter, Harb: Kev), 40 f t. i high. in swampy 
round, Nun River (Mann, Herb. Kew), and 30-40 ft. high in 
moist forest near Lake Victoria Nyanza, altitude 4000 H. (Dawe, 
Herb. Kew). 
Uxcarra, Schreb. 
Uncaria Gambier, Roxb. Hort. Beng. p. 86. 
A scandent shrub; or a bush under cultivation 8-10 ft. high. 
Leaves glabrous, rate orovate lanceolate, acuminate, 3—4 in. long, 
1i-2 in. broad, petioles 3 in., midrib and broadly spaced nervures, 
prominent on the under-side ; green, thick and fleshy when fresh, 
chocolate on the upper surface, reddish brown below, thin and 
crumbling readily when : ee loosely globular on 
axillary peduncles. Flowers small, white. 
Ill. —Rumpf, Amb. v. t. 34, ff. 2, » Trans. Linn. Soc. ix. ioa 
t. 22 (Nauclea Gambir) ; Hayne, Darst. Beschr. Gewächse, x. t. 3 
iv auclea Gambir); Nees von Esenbeck, Plant, Medic. Diisseld. 
