: 509 
Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin, 1909, App. xxii. p. 36, f. 13; Engl. 
& Drude, Veg. Erde, ix. p. 715, f. 616 
Vernac. names Ex a, (Uw et, M. ahead): Akoko (Lagos, Mac- 
Leod, Hislop); Akoko (Ebute Metta, M illen); [Akoko (Yoruba), 
Ikhimi (Benin) T decere Sasanenasa or Sasanemasa (Ashanti, 
Chipp); Aviangti (Gold Coast, Easmon); Kindee or Brochea 
(Sierra Leone, nin Oldfield); Qruime (Island of St. Thomas; 
elwitsch); Mofanie (French Guinea, Farmar). 
Widely spread un Sierra Leone to the Congo. 
Used for fever in Sierra Leone (Oldfield, Mus. Kew; Moloney, 
For. W. Afr. p. 397, Newbouldia sp.) in the treatment of dysentery, 
Gold Coast (Col. Rep. Misc. No. 1, 1891, p. 58). Leaves, in decoc 
tion used for pee cure of p eyes by the natives of Uwet, S. 
Nigeria (McLe Herb. w). Bark used me DAT as a 
stomachic, Aburi, "Gold Coast Pd ohnson, Herb. 
tree of vigorous habit, sometimes shrub-like 10-40 ft. high. 
Cultivated to mark boundaries, S. Nigeria (Thompson, List of For. 
Trees, S. Ni ig. 1910, p. 7). Grows freely and may be propagated by 
l, Herb. 
Kew); Atire employed to inks fences, Ivory Coast (Chevalier 
Bull. Soc. Nat. d'Accl. France, 1912, p. 138); found in open mon- 
soon forest, Ashanti (Chipp, Herb. Ker): in fruit September, 
French Guinea (Farmar, Herb. Kew), a small tree flowering and 
fruiting in Februar y at ‘Old Calabar. 
Ref.—“ Newbouldia laevis in the treatment of ny Tee: 
Easmon, in Col. Rep. Misc. No. 1, 1891, pp. 54-5 
; MARKHAMIA, Seem. 
Markhamia tomentosa, A. Schum.; Fl. Trop. Afr. IV. Sect. 2, 
528. 
i Vernac. names.—lwe (Lagos, MacGregor, Dawodu); Akoko 
ih ies dde 
Senegambia to the Camero 
Said n be used snoaitinally, igs (MacGregor, Herb. Kew). A 
tree 30 ft. high. 
Var. gracilis, Sprague, has been recorded from Nupe (Barter, 
No. 1310, Herb. Kew). 
The wood Markhamia gorig Sac mpra en pee 
Baker) Fl. Trop. Afr. iv. Sect. ‘ Lusambya " of 
pes is said by Mahon (Herb. Kev} to + one of the finest of 
local timbers 
SPATHODEA, Beauv 
. Spathodea campanulata, Beauv.; Fl. Trop. Air, IV. Sect. 2, p. 529. 
1ll.—Pal. de Beauv. Fl. Oware & Benin, tt. 27, 28; Geel, Sert. 
e Op 5. 11853 
dii. , Ds 263, E. 2A; 
Engl. & Drude, "Veg «E ix. P 636, f. 546 (d. y Gard. Chron. 
(habit). 
