412 
£2063 (N. CR) hes of “Shea Nuts,” in 1909—21,790,787 1b., 
value £78,029 (S. Nig.) ; 20,352,640 Ib., value £90, 858 (N. Nig.); 
. in 1910—9, 998,870 i value £43, 510 (S. Nig.); 9,400,201 Ib.; 
value £41, 080 (N. Nig.; ; Govt. Gaz. 5 B, ANM. 17th May, 1911, 
Suppl. App. B and D). 
Shea Nuts were selling in Liverpool at £13 per ton, Oct. 1913 
(Oil and Colour Trades Journ. Oct. 25, 1913, p. 1483). The total 
of Shea Products exported from Lagos in 1913 was 206,892 Ib. 
‘value £865 (190,180 Ib., value £643 to United Kingdom; 
16,712 Ib. value £222 to other countries not specified); in 1914— 
3,012,021 Ib., Mei £10,995 (35,777 lb., value £922, to United 
Kingdom; 2, 966,150 lb., value £9918 to German , and 
0,114 Ib., value £155 to other countries) (porn Customs and 
Trade Journ. Feb. 2, 1914, p. 66). The remarkable increase to 
Germany in 1914 (nil in 1913) IE enit as showing the 
increasing importance and the possible developments in the trade. 
As indicated (p. 413) the Northern part of the Colony 1s the more 
important for the production. The Western and Central Provinces 
are the sources of the supply i in S. Nigeria, no returns being given 
for the Eastern Province. The trade lies chiefly with the United 
Kingdom, Germany and Holland, and the demand at is. present 
time is apparently more for the nuts than for the butte 
** Gutta Shea"' is a hydrocarbon obtained from Shea butter in 
the manufacture of soap to the extent of :5—75 per cent. 
(Henderson and Co., Glasgow, Mus. Kew; Kew Report, 1878, 
p. 38; Kew Bull. 1906, p. 177). This i is probably analogous to the 
gutta-like extract that may be obtained from the trunk, known 
according to Dudgeon (Agric. and For. Prod. W. Ns p. 123) as 
‘* Danko Kadainya" in Kano. This extract is of doubtful value 
commercially and in any event it could not be obtained without 
Pounds in a a uiid state as a tes nn k with a trunk 5-6 ft. in 
diameter (Fl. Trop. Afr. l.c. & Kew Bull. 1906, p. 177); abundant 
in Borgu, N. Nigeria (Lugard, Col. Rep. Ann. No. 476, 1905, 
p. 75), [where de: is a small leaved form referred to by Barter 
(No. 121, Herb. Kew) which he states flowers 3 weeks before the 
ordinary tree] ; in Ilorin, N. Nigeria (Lugard, Col. Rep. Lc. p. 91); 
throughout the coun try [N . Nigeria] (Elliott, l.c. p. 132). Plen- 
tiful between Iwo a - Ede, W. Province, in dry fores 
big of soil (Thompson, Col. Rep. Misc. No. 51, 1908, p. 6), in the 
zone, S. Nigeria, looking something like an English ih 
(Thompson, List of For. Trees, 8. Nig . 1910, p. 6), generally 
ym des de 
the districts of the hinterland more especia ally in the Western 
Province (Col. Rep. Ann. No. 554, 1908, p. 40); a b ire 10-15 ft. 
