360 
Wood brownish- ie, of fine grain, somewhat like beech in 
hardness Ja wor characters ; said to polish well but of no 
ornamental o Szyk value though useful locally ; weight 34-6 Ib. 
per cubic foot (Stone (1900) Mus. Kew). This de E 
Sew Johnson) now (1913) shots a specific gravity 
. per cubic foot. 
und as a tree 40-50 ft. high; altitude 1000 ft., St. Thomé 
(Maus: Herb. Kew); of graceful palm-like habit, Old Calabar 
(Thomson, Herb. Kew); a small tree easily rec cognised when in 
flower by its st rong disagreeable smell, Gold Coast (Chipp, Trees, 
Shrubs and Climbers, Gold Coast, p. 23). 
VANGUERIA, Commers. 
Vangueria Dalzielii, Hutchinson in Kew Bulletin, 1913, p. 179. 
An erect shrub with terete branches covered xt x due 
silvery bark; die one end s —— leafy, gr glabro 
ns ewhat 
oes between e R subulate-lanceolate from a broad 
ase, obtuse, about 6 lin. long, long-pilose within the base. 
Flowers fasciculate at the nodes of t e leafless parts of the 
branches; pedicels 25 lin. long, glabrous. eos tacle cam seb 
glabrous. Calyx lobes 5, linear-lanceolate, subobtuse, 1 lin. 
glabrous outside, minutely puberulous .within. Corolla bibe 
straight, 6 lin. long, 3 lin. in diameter across the middle, glabrous 
outside or nearly so, with a dense ring of reflexed hairs below the 
middle — lobes 6, lanceolate, shortly apiculate, 6 lin. long, 
glabrou Anther rs included. Ovary 9-celled. Style shortly 
Vernac. name Bi ta-ka-tsira (Katagum, Dalziel). 
Katagum, Northern Nigeria (Dalziel, No. 379, Herb. Kew). 
A remedy for arrow poison (I.c.). 
Vangueria edulis, Vahl.; Fl. Trop. Afr. III. p. 148. 
Ill.—Agric. Col. 1911, Suppl. p. 139; Fiori, Piante Legnose 
Dell Eritrea, p. 362, f. 173. 
Vernac. names. We ro (Chindao, Gazaland, Swynnerton); 
Voa-Vanga Minor, He ee de Muero (S. Africa, 
Baines) ; Mobero (B. E. Afri a, Ellio 
Idda, Aboh. in S. Nigeria; "distribui eastwards to the Bari 
Country, Uganda, B. E. Afr Madagascar. 
Fruit edible—subglobose, gem l in. in dia eeded. 
Eaten by the natives of Madagascar and Mauris 4 (M oloney 
For. W. Afr. p. 368; Don. Hist. Dich. Pl. iii. p. 549). 
