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os L : : y ; 
Is. 21d. to 1s. 3d. and in pute 1915, ls. 34d. per Ib., * Gold 
being approximately 
the same (Rayner and Co.’s W. £ AR Prod. Rep., Nigerian 
RET 
id Trade ou. Feb. 2nd, 1915—12,571 Ib. value £444 for 
month of January). The local price of “ Silk Rubber ” in Lagos 
(1895) was 10d. to 1s. 2d. per Ib. (Kew Bull. 1895, p. 246). The 
Mamu Government Reserves and e adan Native State 
Reserves (tapped in 1912) sold SAT (Jan. 1914) was 3s. 10d. pe 
lb. eee Ib. at £658 7s. 10d. see Col. Rep. Ann. No. 782, 191 
p. 13) and from plantation EE trees in dud (tapped 1910); 
sold in London (March, 1911) from 5s. 6d. 6s. 6d. per Ib. 
(Thompson and Foster, Rep. Benin City Coramercial Pl. 1912, 
p. 7, about 1000 Ib. sold). 
It is not possible to give the exact amount of the rubber obtained 
from this tree, exported from the Colony, but the total amount of 
rubber exported from Lagos amounted to 25,181 lb. value £950 
= . per Ib.] in 1914 (Nig. Customs and Trade Journ. Jan. 2, 
1915, p. 13) and more than seven times this amount—175,454 lb. 
value "E9811 [ =13-4d. per ]b.] in 1913 (l.c.) in which year the 
total imports from the Seria and Protectorate of Southern Nigeria 
into the United King amounted to 875,800 Ib. value 
£86,035 [=23-5d. per XE (Trade of Unit. Kingdom, i. 1914, 
p. 185). The rubber would consist principally of that from the 
to dur consideration, Landolphia owariensis and Clitandra 
there is no doubt that the extracts from F. african na, other 
Landolphias, Clitandras, Carpodinus, etc., see | throughout 
this order are too often included in the general retu 
The floss from the seed has been found on ee i consist 
of 14-7 per cent. moisture, 3-7 per cent. ash, and 56-4 per cent. 
cellulose; reported on as of poor quality and not worth more than 
ld. per Ib. on the London market (Johnson, ah. Bot. Gdns. 
