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Landolphia, consisting of climbing shrubs, with stems 4 to 6 
inches in diameter dividing above into numerous branches, and 
m an 
m plants, a very importan bber industry was started at 
the A 
industry in La d suggesting “the adoption of meas 
having for their object the addition of one more to the industries 
of the colony." The result of this was not immediate t. 
: ly apparen 
But in 1894 the present Governor of Lagos, Sir Gilbert T. Carter, 
K.C.M.G., issued the following notice, as appears from the Report 
TA te Botanic Station for the quarter ending the 30th June, 
Following this came the announcement that a new rubber-yield- 
ing plant had been discovered in the colony of Lagos, and that it 
was a large tree abundantly distributed in the interior forests. 
In the report on the Botanic Station at Lagos for the quarter 
ending 3lst December, 1894, the Curator states: The rubber 
industry of the colony is rapidly extending. Large quantities are 
be submitted to the authorities at Kew for a report. The native 
name of the tree is “Ire,” Mr. Millen adds, “It may prove very 
valuable to the colony.” 
In April 1895, Captain Denton, C.M.G., the Acting-Governor, 
communicated some specimens to Kew with the following 
emarks :— 
a valuable article of export, and there appears to be every chance 
of the quantity produced increasing. I obtained these specimens 
m the district between Ilogbero and llaso, where I saw the pro- 
cess of procuring the juice from the tree in course of progress. 
The Irai tree, at the base, is between 3 and 4 feet in cireumference 
