590 



^ 1 



r 



RICI:^fODENDRON, Miill/Arg. 



i 



. Ricinodendron aiiicmum, Miill. Arg.; Fl. Trop. Afr VI 



Sect. 1, p. 745. 



/ZZ.— Hook, Ic. PI. t. 1300; Engl. & Praiiti, Pfl^n. iii. pt 5, 

 f. 54 c-d ; Ann. Inst. Col. Marseille, 1898, p. 42, f , S (seeds, 

 B. Hevdelotii); Sim, For. Fl. «& For. Res. Port. E. Afr. t. 71 

 {Barrettia umbrosa) ; Engl. & Drude, Veg. Erde,. ix. p. 70Q, 

 f. 599 {R. Heudelotii) ; Pax, in Engl. Pflanzenr. iv. Euphorb.— 

 Cluytieae, p. 47, f. 16, p. 48, f. 17 E {R. Heudelotii). ,. . -. 



wawe^.— [Erimado (Yoruba) Okwen (Benin) Foster]^ 

 Ookwe (Benin, Unwin) ; [Nsasana (S. Nigeria) ; Okwen (Benin) ; 

 Erimado or Erinmado (Yoruba); Asoma (Gold Coast, Owama 

 OT Awama (Gold Coast) ; Thompson] ; Awomah (Gold Coasts 

 Brent); Okao Koodo (Gold Coast, Johnson); Asoma (Gold 

 Coast, Armitage) ; Kishongo or Kisongo (Uganda, Dawe) ; Issan- 

 gmla (Gaboon, Klaine); Mungnella (Cazengo, Gossweiler, Wel- 



nac 



witsch) ; 



Heck- 



Old Calabar (WilHams, No. 6, Herb. Kew) ; Oban (Talbot 

 No 2333, Herb. Kew); Benin (Unwin, No. 43) and Lagos 

 (Schlechter, Herb. Kew) in Nigeria ; fomid also in Sierra Leone, 

 Gold Coast, Cameroons, Gaboon, Uganda and East Africa. 



cr 



yield an oil which could be 



a 



Tung Oil " (Col. Rep. Ann. No. 583, 1908 (for 1907), S. Nigeria, 

 ij. 37) and also found by a firm of varnish makers to be inter- 

 mediate between "Tung Oil" {Aleurites Fordii, cordata) and 



Linseed {Lmwn usitatissimum) . Superior to the latter for 

 •certain purposes. A consignment of one ton of kernels for trial 

 on a commercial scale was suggested in 1908, the price anticipated 

 being £10, c.i.f. in London (Col. Rep. Ann. No. 630, 1909 (for 

 1908) S. Nigeria, p. 39 ; see also " Results of the Examination of 



Okwen Seeds, Ricinodendron Heudelotii," in Govt. Gaz. 

 S.^ig. Mar. 3rd, 1909, Suppl. p. 7). It may be mentioned that 



xung or Wood oil" kernels are rarely imported and in 

 1909 the oil was quoted at from 25s. 6<^.-26s. per cwt. spot and 

 for arrival 27s. Sd. c.i.f. (Chem. & Druggist, May 22nd, 1909, 

 p. 808) and in 1913 oil of " Hankow description " was being sold 

 in Hamburg at m. 60| ci.L (I.e. June 28th, 1913, p. 980). 



The natives of the Semliki and Unyoro forests of Uganda eat 



the seeds after boihng (Dawe, Rep. Bot. Miss. Uganda, 1906, 

 p. 56). 



• Wood used by the natives above' mentioned for making- 

 doors of their huts (Dawe, I.e.) for the 



making bowls to hold the dyes for dyeing u.....^ ..^i,, ,,, ouuuitriA 

 Nigeria (Thompson, List For. Trees, S. Nig. 1910, p. 9) where it. 

 is also much used by the native as a fuel wood (Foster, Nig. 

 Trees & PI. p. 60) ; used for carving musical string instruments 

 ;in Cazengo, Angola (Gossweiler, Herb. Kew), for making stooK 

 and tom-toms, Aburi, Gold Coast (Johnson, Herb. & Mus^ 

 Kew). Suggested because of its lightness— 12 lb. per cubic ft' 



same 



