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FORESTRY OF WEST AFRICA. 



XII. 



As regards the Settlements on the Gambia, and of 

 Sierra Leone, the cola nut (seed of the Cola amminata. 

 Order Sterculiacem) plays a very important part and 

 an increasing game, as the following statistics of 

 Imports into former and Exports from latter Settle- 

 ment will show (pp. 158 and 160) : — 



Cola Import to the Gambia. 



The cola nut has not been grown in the Gambia, so 

 that the foregoing statistics represent, it may be said, 

 the entire trade in this seed within and beyond those 

 Settlements. 



