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kernels of '' Casso " or " Gasso " from the province of Likoala, 

 French Congo, are reported to yield about 50 per cent, of oil 

 suggested for use in paint manufacture (Bull. Imp. Inst, 1911, 

 p. 159). A var. fulvum, Hutchinson (Fl. Trop. Afr. I.e. p. 819) 

 is recorded from the Lower Congo and Angola and the above 

 notes may also apply to this. 



Ref. — " Nkosa {M anniojphyton ajricamtm)^^^ in Bull. Agric- 

 Congo Beige, iii. 1912, p. 620 with illustration — extraction of the 



fibre, f. 434. '' Nkose or Kossa {Manniophyton africanum),^^ 



in The Rubber Industry, 1914, advt, "The Belgian Conge/" 



pp. 13-14. " Manniophyton africannm " in " Fibres from the 



Belgian Congo," Bull, Imp. Inst. xv. 1917, pp. 491-492. 



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Caperonia, St. Hil. 

 Caperonia palustris, >S/. HiL ; FL Trop. Afr. VI. Sect, i; 



p. 832. 



Vernac. name. — Fourou (Bambara, Prain)* 



Lagos, River Benue, Garua in Nigeria, Cameroons, and found 

 in other parts of Tropical Africa including French - Guinea, 

 Mozambique District, East Africa, &c. also in South Africa, 

 Madagascar, and South America. 



The Bozos use the fibre of this plant to make fishing hnes 

 (FL Trop. Afr, l.c.^. 



An annua nlant 2-3 ft. hi>h 



Manihot, Adans. 

 Manihot dichotoma* lUe : Fl. Trop. Afr 



Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berhn^ 

 Pflanzenr. Eunhorb.-Adri- 



7ZZ,— Hook. Ic, PI, tt. 2876, 2877 ; 

 V, No. 4lA, f. 1a-b; Pax in Engl. 

 aneae, p. 83, f. 11, a-b, f. 15, F-H. 



Vernac. names. — Jequie or Jequie Mani9oba (Brazil, Ule). 



Cultivated in Tropical Africa, Ceylon, Singapore, West Indies 

 and various Botanical and Agricultural Stations from seeds 

 sent out from Kew about 1908 ; native. of Brazil (Bahia). 



A tree 10-14 ft. high ; grown as a rubber plant ; for general 

 particulars see the following species and piauhyensis. The seeds 

 germinate especially easily, an advantage over the other species 

 (Kew Bull. 1908, p. 68). ^ 



i?e/,^'' Jequie Maniyoba and Its Allies,'' Kew Bull. 1908, 

 pp. 59-68 and in The India Rubber Journ, March 9th,. 1908, 



pp. 261-263. '' Jequie Manigobas," Kew Bull. 1910, pp. 204- 



206. " The Jequie Manigoba Rubber Tree," Thomson, in 



The Indian Forester, xxxvi. Jan, & Feb. 1910, pp. 1-9; reprint 



in ''Tropical Agriculturist," xxxiv. May 1910, pp. 393-397. 



The Jequie Manitoba Rubber Tree," in Agric. News, Barbados^ 

 ix. 1910, p, 211. " The New Manihots," in The Whole Art of 



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