418 
A iree with a symmetrical straight trunk, 4-7 ft. in diam. 
35-45 ft. high, branching like an oak. Flowe MER branchlets 
stout, with clusters of leaves and flowers at the tips. Leaves 
elongate-obovate or ob-lanceolate, rounded and very shortly and 
obtusely acuminate, narrowing towards the base, about 1 ft. long, 
in. wide, entire, chartaceous, dark brown above, light brown 
below, glabrous, midrib prominent below, slightly “impressed 
above, lateral nerves 30-35 pairs, at an angle of about 70° 
looped near the ma ee prom = below; petiole det in. 
. in 
or less ml crinkled when dry + in. in diam., dark purple, 
lipsoid, 2 in. long, 11 in. broad, 
with a rough bony hilum covering nearly one-half the seed, 
remainder of the testa bony, smooth, rich brown; kernels oily. 
Ill.—Engler, Monogr. Afr. Pflan. Sapotaceae, tt. 52, 35, f. A.; 
Chevalier, = Vég. Util. L'Afriq. Trop. Franc. Fas ud ff. 25, 26, 
27 (fruits); Tropenpfl. 1910 p. 30 mau p. 33 nine plants): 
Thompson, Col. Rep. Mise. No. 66, 1910, t. 20; Tropenpf. 
Beihefte, xii. 1911, 1..6 (Njabibaum) t. 8 (habit) ; Bolton and 
m Fatty Foods, p: eem f. 15 (seed 
nac. names.—Aganokwi (Benin, T rt — (F-W. 
fries, Perrot); Noumgou (Camerooi; Perrot); N Ee) Nish: 
Degema, New Eater River, S. Nigeria (Sherriff, July 1906, 
Herb. Kew). Known also from the Gaboon and the Cameroons. 
The fruit according to Fickendey (Tropenpfl. 1910, No. 1, p. 29 
tastes mar slightly acid and is refreshing. When unripe it 
contains : 
The Lol yield by ee 60 per cent. and upwards of an 
oil or fat, somewhat similar to that of ‘Shea Butter” 
utyrospermum Par kit aad ** Mowrah " or ‘‘ Mhowra,”’ (Bassia 
iru edible when extracted from the fresh seeds, but the 
e like that of the Bassia is poisonous and fit only for manuré 
or it wight be used in the preparation of a dressing for lawns to 
-destroy worms. It is in this respect not unlike Trichilia emetica, 
Adjab seeds are said to be used in the well known 
ask e poisonous vefte is saponin, and Bamin. men- 
tions that the residue can be rendered harmless by treatment with 
hot water. Mr. Norman Tate reporting on a sample of seeds (now 
in the Kew Museum) from the Niger in 1884 stated that the oil or 
butter possessed all the characteristics of ordinary Shea Butter, 
but the residue was not suitable for food cake. 
The constants of Adjab fat are given in Tropenpflanzer, xiv. 1910, 
-p. 32 in comparison with those of Shea Butter to which the figures 
