MAHOGANY PRODUCTS OF WEST AFRICA 73 
dark-brown colour and rather coarse grain, and with the 
native name of Owowe attached, he botanically iden- 
tifies as Albizzia sp. (natural order Leguminosae), 
describing it as similar to East India Walnut. Whether 
the first-named wood is a mahogany or not, it is 
impossible—after the wood is stained a mahogany 
colour and polished—for the keenest expert to dis- 
tinguish it from an ordinary piece of African mahogany. 
