582 



Fruit has a pleasant flavour somewhat resembhng that of a 

 medlar (Barter, Mus. Kew). 

 A tree up to 60 ft. high. 



Uapaca Staudtii, Pax. Fh Trop. Afr. VI. Sect. 1, p. 638. 



Vernac. names. — Akun (Yoruba, Thompsoii, Sanhey) ; Bosambi 



(Cameroons, Jentsch). 



Oni, Southern Province, Nigeria (Sankey, No. 14, 1916, Herb. 



Kew) and in the Cameroons. 



Wood, hard, red (I.e.); even-grained, easily worked, ]^lanes 

 and saws well, a good general purpose timber and very durable 

 (List, Empire Timb. Exhib. London, 1920, p. 274), The output 

 (73,032 cubic ft.) of sinking timber reported in 1919 included 

 this species and '' Ekld " {Lophira), chiefly (Thompson, Ann. 

 Rep. For. Adm. Nigeria, for 1919, S. Prov. p. 10). 



A tree 35-90 ft. hiofh. with Manerrove-hke roots : found in 



swamps 



mpire Timb 



-Re/.— " Bosambi- f/a^aca Staudtii,^^ in " Der Urwald Came- 

 roons" (Tropenpflanzer, xii. Beihefte), Jentsch, March, 1911, 

 pp. 160-161. 



Phyllanthus, Linn. 



Phyllanthus amarus, Sch. & Thonn. ; FL Trop. Afr, VI. 



Sect. 1, p. 717. 



Vernac. name, — Dobisowo (Lagos, Dawodu). 



Lagos, Old Calabar, &c, in Nigeria ; Gold Coast, Liberia, 

 Togoland, Ivory Coast in West Africa and extending to the 

 Mozambique district on the East. 



Whole plant included in Agbo {see p. 50), Lagos (Dawodu, 

 Herb. Kew). 



A small plant about 1 ft. high ; a sandbinder Axim (Chipp, 

 Herb. Kew). 



Phyllanthus discoideus, MiilL Arg. ; FL Trop. Afr. VI. Sect. 1, 



p. 707. 



Vernac, names, — Opepiah (Gold Coast, Brent) ; Sagga (Sierra 

 Leone, Mann) ; Mutete, Caretete or Caletete (Golungo Alto, 



Wehoitsch). 



Nupe, Lagos, and \\idely distributed in Tropical Africa. 

 Wood hard, used for shingles, Gold Coast (Brent, No. 408, 



1913, Herb. Kew) ; wood white ; excellent ; Golungo Alto 

 (Hiern, Cat. Welw. Afr. PL i. p. 961). 



A tree 30-50 ft, high ; Gossweiler — (on specimens Nos. 4579, 

 4692 & 4677 — Cazenzo, in Herb. Kew) gives 7 metres high 

 and rarely more than 30 cm. in diam. deciduous just before 

 flowering, a deciduous t>ree 60 ft. high branched from the base 

 and a deciduous tree 15 metres high, | metre in diam. wood 

 red brown, A tree 30 ft. Nupe (Barter, Herb. Kew), circum- 

 ference 7 ft. River Bagroo (Mann, Mus. Kew). 



