618 



(W 



Museum at Kew 



A tree, 60-80 ft., before branching, base sometimes buttressed, 

 deciduous for a short time during the dry season, common in 

 the Yoruba forests (Barter, I.e.) ; 40-60 ft. Agaie, N. Nigeria, 

 seldom growdng beyond edge of forest along stream, flowering in 

 February (Yates, No. 20, Herb. Kew) ; 15-30 metres, Gaboon 

 (Klaine,' Herb. Kew) ; a tree growing in the Mamu Reserve 

 measured 24 ft. sirth at 10 ft. from the ground, height 



Mamu 



found 



in the older forests. Gold Coast (Col. Rep. Msc. No. 66, 1910, 



ovinces 



the tree is grown for marking the boundaries between the 

 different farms and villages (Ann. Rep. Forestry Dept. S. Nig. 

 1911, p. 3). In 1905 plantations of the tree were in course of 



development 



(see p. 41 of this 



w-ork) and in the vicinity of the railway, Lagos (Col. Rep. Ann. 

 No. 507, 1906 (for 1905) p. 25) and in general o\dng to the 

 increasing demand for local purposes it was considered advisable 

 to increase the planting (Col. Rep. Misc. No. 51, 1908 (for 1906) 

 p. 21). In the Oloke-Meji forest— quarter ending Sept. 1907, 

 1400 plants were put out (Farquhar, Govt. Gaz. S. Nig. April loth, 

 1908, p. 5) 16,710 seedlings are reported to have been put out in 

 1908 (Col. Rep. Ann. No. 630, 1909 (for 1908) p. 14) and 8000 

 in 1910, when in the Mamu Reserve, 2438 were planted out 

 (Col. Rep. Ann. No. 695, 1911 (for 1910) p. 11) and the railway 

 plantation (W. Prov.) was extended by 12 acres containing 8000 

 seedUngs (I.e. p. 12). 



i^e/. — "Report on the Railway Iroko {Chlorophora excelsa) 

 Plantation" Unwin, in Govt. Gaz. S. Nigeria, Suppl. No. 47, 

 June 1st, 1910, pp. 1-3. " Iroko," in Report on the Afforesta- 

 tion of Togo, Unwin, pp. 37-38 (Waterlow & Sons, Ltd. London, 

 1912).—" Chlorophora excelsa," Dixon, in The Sci. Proc. Roy. 

 Dublin Soc. xv. Dec. 1918, p. 469; description of wood (Daw^e. 

 No. 151. Uffanda. 1905. Mus. KewV 



Ficus, Linn. 



■ J 



Reus Anomani, Hutchinson; Fl. Trop. Afr. VI. Sect. 2, 



p. 157. 



Vernac. name.— Anomani (Gold Coast, Armitage). 



Cameroon 



lime 



Gold Coast 



(Armitage, Report, Rubber Trees and Vines, End. in Letter 



Kew 



An epiphyte ; common everywhere (I.e.). 



Reus asperifoUa, Miq. ; Fl. Trop. Afr. VI. Sect. 2 



7W.— Hooker, London Journ. Bot. vii. 1848, t. 1£ 

 Vernac. name.— Epin or Epindo (Yoruba, Foster). 



