626 



Var. Caillei, A. Chev. Fl. Trop. Afr. I.e. p. 161. 



7Z^.— Warburg & De Wildeman, Mens Fl. Congo, t. 25 {F. 

 monbuttensis) . 



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Vernac. name. — Awaiyo (Hausa, Lamb). 



Owerri District, S, Nigeria, Ankpa, N. Nigeria, and in the 

 Belgian Congo. 



Believed to yield balata in Bassa (Lamb, Herb, Kew). 



A tree about 30 ft. hia:h, Owerri, where it is very common 

 (Sheriff, Herb. Kew). 



Fleus exasperata, Vahl.\ Fl. Trop. Afr. VI. Sect. 2, p. no. 



III. — Hooker, Lond. Journ. Bot. vii. (1848) t. 14c; Warburg, 

 in Ann. Mus, Congo, vi. (1904) t. 7, f, Ic {F, piinctifera); 

 Warburg & De Wildeman, Ficus FL Congo, i. t. 7 {F, pimctifera) ; 

 Sim, For. Fl. & For. Res. Port. E. Afr. t. 87 {F. silicea) ; t. 95, 

 LC {F.scabra), 



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Vernac. names, — XJmfubu or Miifubu (Gazaland, Sivynnerton) \ 

 Mtabo, Mutaba, Barowre (Port. E. Africa, Sim) ; Msasa or 



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Ursusa (Zanzibar, KirJ:); Hasihraf (Arabia, Barbey); Mukemyu 

 (Uganda^ Dawe) ; Lixa (the leaves), Lima (the tree) (Golungo 

 Alto, Welwitsch). 



. . Lagos, Bonny, in S. Provinces, Nigeria, and in Upper 

 Guinea' from Senegambia to Fernando' Po, and the Cameroons ; 

 also in Lower Guinea, Belgian Congo, Uganda, East Africa 

 and Arabia. 



Leaves used as sand-paper by the natives for wood-w^ork and 

 icalabashes, Ebute Metta (Millen, Herb. Kew) ; used to polish 

 calabashes, Abeokuta (Rowland, Herb. Kew), for polishing 

 wood-work Botamba Island, Sierra Leone and Zanzibar (Kirk 

 Herb. & Mus. Kew), used as sand-paper by the natives of Samu 

 Country, Sierra Leone (Scott Elliot, Herb. Kew), Gold Coast 

 (Chipp, Herb. Kew), Angola (Hiern, Cat. Welw. Afr. PL i. 

 p. 1011), Chinnda Forest, Gazaland (Swynnerton, Journ. Linn, 

 Soc. xl. 1911, p. 205) and by the M'Chopes, Port. E, Africa to 

 polish assegais, assegai-handles, spoons, walking-sticks, &c, (Sim, 

 For. Fl. & For. Res. Port. E. Afr. p. 102). 



A report on leaves from Zanzibar, made to Kew by 

 Mr. Robson J. Scott (8, Wliitefriars Street, London) in 1885, 

 was that '' they could not compete with glass paper at 24 sheets 

 for Qd. which has a uniform and durable surface — ^glass paper 

 -abrades tJie surface of wood, the leaves only polish it; if you 

 rub one upon the surface of a coin you will see how fine the 

 cutting particles must be, they are silex I presume; even for 

 metal I think that far better materials exist," 



A tree, 60-70 ft. high, Victoria Nyanza (Dawe, Rep. Bot. 

 Miss. Uganda, 1906 p. 57), 20 ft. high, Ebute Metta (Millen, 

 Lc), often a shrub 1-2 metres, occasionally 6-10 metres high 

 Port, E. Africa (Sim, I.e.); frequently grown in avenues for 

 purposes of shade, Golungo Alto (Hiern, I.e.). 



May be propagated by stout cuttings. 



