445 
Lagos, Ibadan, Oloke-Meji, Benin, Onitsha. 
Latex used to adulterate that of good rubber eu No. 146, 
1901, Herb. Kew ; Thompson, Col. Rep. Misc. No. 51, 1908, p. 39). 
Fibre used for making cloth, of which there is a *sample i in the Kew 
Museum called * Dodo Cloth, " Lagos (Gurney, Mus. Kew). 
Found as a small tree about 10 ft. high, Oloke-Meji (Dodd, 
Herb. Kew), fine foliage, flowers white and very fragrant, Onitsha 
(Barter, Herb. Kew). 
The Conopharyngias in common with other Apocynaceous 
plants ar hate a milky juice, coagulating to an inferior substance 
more or less sticky, sometimes used as bird-lime, and to adulterate 
good class rubbers, though one species C. stenosiphon, Stapf, Fl. 
Trop. Afr. l.c. p. 147, is stated to yield sparingly a very good 
rubber. C. Holstu, Stapf, le. p. 146, of East Africa and 
Uganda, is said to possess very hard wood. C. crassa, Stapf, FI 
Trop. Afr. Lc. p. 144, has been mentioned as a rubber plant (see 
Morris Journ. Soc. Arts, xlvi. 1898, p. 778) and cultivated unsuc- 
cessfully as such in Cey rlon (see Warburg, Pl. Caoutch. (1902) 
p. 208); it yields a sticky latex, and the wood is described as 
yellowish-white, of fine grain, and density 0-302-0-636 (Chevalier, 
Bois Cote d'Ivoire, in Les Vág. Util. L'Afriq. Trop. Franc. Fasc. 
v. p. 121). 
VoacanGa, Thouars. 
Voacanga africana, Stapf; Fl. Trop. Afr. IV. Sect. 1, p. 157. 
—De Wildeman, Etudes Fl. Bangala, p. 125, f. 48. 
c. names.—[Igbo (Benin), Giwini (Yoruba), Dodo 
(Lagos, Foster]; Dodo—the so-called Male of—(Ibadan, Punch). 
Lagos, Adiabo (Old Calabar); Ibadan, Abeokuta, Benin, in 
S. Provinces, Nigeria; Abinsi, Nupe, Lokoja, in N. Provinces, 
Nigeria. Extends from Sierra Leone to the Cameroons: 
Its latex, which will not itself coagulate, is used for adul- 
terating that of good rubber, Ibadan (Punch, Herb. Kew). 
Found » a shrub, 5-10 ft., n wer (Foster, Barter, 
Millen, Herb LEE a low bush, of Mt. Patti, Lokoja 
(E Elliott, Herb. w), flowers iiu. puo (Barter), in fruit 
[Jan. 6th, DIT sea front Axim (Chipp, Herb. Kew). 
HOLARRHENA, R.Br. 
Holarrhena africana, A.DC.; Fl. Trop. Afr. IV. Sect. 1, p. 164. 
Vernac. name.—Jawki or Yawki (Sierra Leone, Scott Elliot). 
Sierra Leone (Scott Elliot); French Guinea, Togo (Schlechter). 
Fluff [or so-called feathers] of the seed used for stuffing x ee 
Sierra Leone (Scott Elliot, No. 4469, Herb. Kew; Col. Rep. 
No. 3, 1893, p. 29). 
A shrub or small tree. There are no specimens from Nigeria, 
but the species is mentioned here as ha up e iae ME 
the followi .v.) occurring in Lagos 
pp. reed steer (Col. Rep. PUE No. 51, 1908, p. 39) 
