FORESTRY OF WEST AFRICA. 



Gomme " moyens grabeaiix',' for drugs, confectionery, 

 ordinary dressing, sticking labels, envelopes, &c. 

 Gomme " menus grabeaux" for drugs, confectionery, 

 ordinary dressing, sticking labels, envelopes, ink, &c. 

 Gomme fabriqiie, used a great deal in a Russian 

 industry for dressings of tissues, wool, and cotton. 

 Gomme (Jialf white) "grabeaux tries" for drugs, phar- 

 macy, confectionery and distillery. Gomme friable 

 blancJie, for drugs, pharmacy, confectionery and distil- 

 lery. Gomme friable blotide, for drugs, pharmacy, con- 

 fectionery and distillery, Gomme petite fabriqiie, for 

 ordinary dressing of cotton tissues, sticking. Gomme 

 poiissiire, for ordinary dressing, impressions on ordi- 

 nary tissues, ink and blacking. Gomme " marrons et 

 bois," for sticking, ink and blacking. Gomme " boules 

 naturelles" for drugs, pharmacy, dressing the silks 

 from Lyons. Gomme bdelliiivt, for pharmacy. 



According to Messrs. Guillemin, Perrottet & Le- 

 prieur, the Acacia Verek is found (so far) generally over 

 Senegambia, but most abundantly to the north of the 

 right bank of the River Senegal, where exist the 

 forests, historically known, yielding gum, traversed 

 each year by the Moors (Braknas, Darmankos, &c.) 

 for the collection of this commodity. This rich 

 harvest used generally to fall into the hands of the 

 English commercial houses at Portendic before that 

 port was given over to the French in 1857. In the 

 time of Adanson, towards the middle of the i8th 

 century, the quantity of gum sold at the different 



