596 



Imp 



The bark is said to contain 22 per cent, of Tannin ; used in Japan ; 

 but on account of the red colouring matter associated with it, 



market 



Kong 



been found not to contain enough tannin to make it suitable for 



Imp 



may 



cultiva- 



tion would seem to be comparatively easy ; planting recom- 

 mended 25-30 ft. apart in protected situations up to 2600 ft. 

 above sea-level and the tree is said to bear at the end of the 

 second year (Kew Bull. 1917, p. 341). 



Ref. — '' Aleurites moluccana,'' in Diet. Econ. Prod. India, 



Watt, i. 1889, pp. 163-164. '' Aleurites moluccana from tlie 



Journ. [41 xviii. 1904, p. 681. Ahurites 



Cameroons/' Pharm 



moluccana, The Candle Nut, Abbey Yates, in Agric. Ledger, 



No. 4, 1907, pp. 25-33. '' Aleurites triloba;' in Comm. Prod. 



India, Watt, p. 47. " Candle Nuts {Aleurites triloba)^' Bull. 



44-45 



Walnut 



Kew Bull. 1917, pp. 340-341. '' Candlenut (Kekuna) 



4i 



Lumban 



May 1917, pp. 300-302. 



March 



Manniofhyton, Miiil. Arg 



iTi 



Manniophyton africanum. Mall. Arg.; Fl. Trop. Afr. VI. 



Sect. 1, p. 818. 



//?.— Hook, Ic. PI. it. 1267, 1268. 



^ 



Vernac. names .—Casso or Gasso, N'Kam, Ekoum (Congo, 

 HecJcel) ; Losa, N'kosa (Belgian Congo, Malvaux) ; Congo glon- 

 congo (St. Thomas, Welwitsch). 



Old Calabar River (Mann, No. 2308, Herb. Kew) Oban 

 (Talbot, No. 180, Herb. Brit. Mus. & 614, Herb. Kew) and com- 

 mon in West Africa from Sierra Leone to the Cameroons 



tending 



Losa " or " Nkosa " is 



with fibrous 



matter 



bark attaining a length from 30-80 ft. ; 20 kg. of green stems 

 yielding 2 kg. of bark giving 350 grams of dry fibre. The liana 

 is cut in pieces 2-2i ft. in length, the fibres are short and tear 



y are scraped with a knife to free them from all 

 and placed in the sun to dry ; the prepared fibre is 

 used for making ropes and hunting and fishing nets — stronger 

 and more durable than those of the " Akonge " {Triumfetta 

 semitriloba), in the Belgian Congo (BuU. Agric. Congo Beige, iii. 

 1912, seq. Bull. Bur. Agric. Intellig. Rome, 1912, p. 266). In 

 connection with bark sent from the Belgian Congo (1917) it 

 was stated that " unless a good strong clean fibre can be pre- 

 pared by retting it seems unUkely that the material would be 

 of any value in Europe (Bull. Imp. Inst. 1917, p. 491). The 



