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-edible ; the bark pounded to a fine paste is smeared by the 

 natives over their doors and baskets to stop cracks ; timber 

 white and exceedingly durable, makes excellent yokes for oxen, 

 Rhodesia (Swynnerton, Herb. Kew, and Journ. Linn. Soc. xl. 

 1911, p. 190) ; wood celebrated for its durabihty and resistance 

 to termites (Burtt Davy, Kew Bull. 1908, p. 154). 



A tree 20-40 ft. high with a dense widely spreading head. 

 A tree about 20 ft, in open grassy laterite plateaux, or a tall 

 tree by river sides and in wet places, Sierra Leone (Scott Elhot, 

 Herb. Kew^ ; a small tree, roadside farms or in 



Herb 



Savannah 

 stems pricklj 



Coast (Johnson, Herb. Kew) ; a small to medium sized tree 

 30-40 ft. Rhodesia (Swynnerton, I.e.) ; a middlesized tree, 



Ke 



a small tree, Aboh (Barter, Herb. Kew) ; a small dry zone tree, 

 Yoruba (Foster, .Nig. Trees & PL p. CI). 



Ref, — " On the Utilisation of an Indigenous African Silk- 

 worm {AnapJie infracia in Uganda," Gowdey, Bull. Entomolc 

 ical Research, iii. part 3, pp, 227-342, Nov. 1912, pp. 269-274 



o 



covering cultivation of the trees pp, 271-273. "Vers a Soie 



Sauvages d'Afrique," IVIichel, in Bull. Agric. du Congo Beige, iii, 



1912, pp. 581-588. '' Bruhlia micrantha, Eine Futterpflanze 



fiir Afrikanische Seidenraupen/* Engler, in Notizblatt Bot. 



Oart. Berhn, v, Jan. 1913, pp, 291-293. " African Wild Silk/' 



in BuU. Imp. Inst. xiii. 1915, pp. 105-110 ; xiv. 1916, pp. 167-180, 



Bridelia seleroneura. Mull, Arg, ; Fl. Trop. Afr. VI. Sect. 1, 



p. 614. 



Nupe, Onitsha (Barter), Yola (Shaw, Dalziel), Lokoja. 

 Roots used in medicine, Yola (Shaw, No. 61, Herb. Kevy). 

 A tree up to 40 ft. high. 



Oldfieldia, Benth. 



Oldfieldia africana, Benth. & Hook. ; Fl. Trop. Afr. VI. 

 Sect. 1, p. 625, 



IlL — Hook, Kew Journ. Bot. ii. (1850) t. 6; Laslett, 

 Timber & Timber Trees, f. 27 (log as put upon the market). 



Vernac, names. — Tortoza, Pulai Pawi (Sierra Leone, Univin) 

 — African Oak or Teak. 



Sierra Leone (Oldfield, Mann, Welwitsch, Kirk, Vogel, Unwin 

 & Smythe, Herb. Kew); Ivory Coast (Chevalier, No. 16250, 

 Herb, Kew). There appears to be no record supported by speci- 



mens of this tree occurring in Nigeria. Thompson (List For. 



Trees, S. Nig. 1910, p. 9) states that it is " common in Sierra 

 Leone, very rare in S. Nigeria." 



Wood used for all strong work and one of the best. Sierra 

 Leone (Scott Elhot, Col. Rep. Misc. No. 3, 1893, p. 35). Used 

 for boat-building, S. Nigeria (Thompson, I.e.). African Oak or 

 Teak was formerly imported into this country from Sierra Leone 

 where in 1853, Welwitsch reported vast forests on the North 



