gat 
high. Idda and Aboh, 40 ft. high, Brass (Barter, Herb. Kew); 
50-60 ft. high, Mabira Forest, Uganda, at an-altitude of 
4000 ft. (Dawe, Herb. Kew); a large tree, Benin (Dennett, Herb. 
Kew), Bahr-el-Ghazal, Sudan (Broun, Herb. Kew), Ibadan Forest 
Reserve, the leaves shedding to some extent during flowering 
CALLICHILIA, Stapf. 
Callichilia Barteri, Stapf; Fl. Trop. Afr. IV. Sect. 1, p. 133. 
Ill.—Bot. Mag. t. 5859 (Tabernaemontana Barteri). 
Vernac. name bo omode or Ommode (Yoruba, Moloney, 
Millson); Agbo ommodo (Sierra Leone, Scott Elliot); Oko-aja 
(Ibo, Lagos, Foster). : 
Lagos, Ibadan, Brass, Eppah, Onitsha, Old Calabar, Etoi 
River—Obeyon, and generally in the Southern Provinces. 
All the citations in the flora (1.c.) are with the exception of one— 
Gold Coast (Burton) from Nigerian specimens. The references 
to Sierra Leone above and below are not supported by specimens. 
Used medicinally, Ikirun (Yoruba) (Millson, Kew Bull. 1891, 
p. 212) Sierra Leone (Scott Elliot, Col. Rep. Misc. No. 3, 1893, 
p. 49). 
aye." Living plants were first sent from Old Calabar to 
Edinburgh Botanic Gardens, and a specimen sent thence to Kew 
) 
Coxornanxxaia, D. Don. 
Conoph ia durissima, Stapf; Fl. Trop. Afr. IV. Sect. D 
p. 143. [Tabernaemontana dürissima, Stapf, Kew Bull. 1894, 
p. 24.] 
Gaboon (Soyaux); Cameroons (Zenker); Bangin-chari-Lac- 
Tchad. "Thomson No. 73, 1863, Old Calabar (in Herb. Kew) with 
Holland, No. 4, 1897, Itu, Cross River are referred to this species 
provisionally. 
Wood very hard (Soyaux, Herb. Kew). 
A tree 30-70 ft. high (Fl. Trop. Afr. Le. 
Conopharyagia pachysiphon, Stapf; Fl. Trop. Afr. IV. Sect. 1, 
p. 145. [Tabernaemontana pachysiphon, Stapf, Kew Bull. 
1894, p. 22.] 
Vernac. names.—Dodo (Lagos, Oloke-Meji, Dodd); Ibu or 
Ubu (Benin, Dennett); *Kpokpoka (Lagos, Gurney). : 
