(539 



Sources, Cultivation and Preparation, Brown, pp. 212-226 



(John Mujray, London, 1914). -" Castilloa elastica,'' in Rubber 



Cultivation in Trinidad and Tobago : Report of the Special 

 Committee of the Board of Agriculture, pp. 116-123; reprint 

 from Bull. Dept. Agric. Trinidad and Tobago, xvi. 1917, 



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AxTiARis, Lesch. 



Antiaris africana, Engl; Fl. Trop. Afr. VI. Sect. 2, p. 223. 



Ill— Engl & Drude, Veg, Erde, ix. p. 780, f. 660 B. 



Vernac, names .—B.oko bokun (Nupe, Yates); Oro (Lagos, 

 Moloney, Thompson, Foster, Punch, Dodd) ; Chenchen (Ashanti, 

 Chipp); Chen-Chen, Ofu, Ohonton (Gold Coast, Thomjjson); 

 Ako, Akede, Bofi, Mbopon (Ivory Coast, Courtet). 



Lagos, Ibadan, Nupe, Yola in Nigeria ; also known from Sierra 



Timber 



Dahomey 



used for making canoes, Gold 

 Coast (Johnson, Herb.' Kew) ; white and soft, density 0-362- 

 0*408, used for joinery work, Ivory Coast (Courtet, L'Agric. 

 prat, pays chauds, x. 1, 1910, p. 463); timber useless, Ibadan 

 Forest Reserve (Punch, Herb. Kew) ; light coloured, soft and of 

 little value ; weight about 21 lb. per cubic ft. (Foster, Nig. 

 Trees & PL p. 63). The bast fibres are beaten out to form a 

 native cloth, Gold Coast (Thompson, Col. Rep. Misc. No. 66, 

 1910, p. 198). Latex used as a rubber adulterant, Ashanti 

 (Chipp, Herb. Kew) : mixed with that of " Ire '' [Fimtnmia 

 elastica, p. 453]; but will not coagulate by itself and spoils good 

 rubber, Ibadan (Punch, I.e.). 



Tree, 20 ft, high, Nupe (Barter, Herb. Kew), about 50 ft. 

 high, with smooth white bark, fruit red, Oloke Meji (Dodd, 

 Herb. Kew) ; large, spreading, elm-like, generally destitute of 

 leaves in December, fruit turning from green to reddish, Nujie 

 (Yates, Herb. Kew) ; flowers in January at wliich time the tree 

 is leafless (Foster, I.e.) ; trees have been observed on the Gold 

 Coast described as enornious, pyramidal (Johnson) and large 

 (Thompson, Chipp) and 35-40 metres high, trunk 0-90 m- 

 1 m. 30 in diameter, with buttresses upwards of 2 metres, Ivory 

 Coast (Courtet, I.e.). 



In reference to the use of the bark for making native cloth 

 and the wood for canoes on the Gold Coast, Dawe (Rep. Bot. 

 Miss. Uganda, 1906, pp. -5, 32, 57), describes a striking tree 

 (believed to be ^. usambarensis Engl,- — native name '' Kirundo ") 

 in Uganda upwards of 150 ft. high the bark of wliich affords a 

 whitish cloth used by the natives, but considered inferior to the 

 Ficus-bark cloths : trunks made into beer-vats. 



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Treculia, Decne. 



Treculia africana, Decne ; FL Trop. Afr 



III — Ami. Sc, Nat. Paris. Series 3. viii 



Bot. Mag. t 



598G; Hook. Ic, PL t. 2353 {T. affona); Engl. Monogr. Afr 



