FORESTRY OF WEST AFRICA. 



resorted to in Gambia and other parts of West 

 Africa ; the baobab grows in wild and weird 

 luxuriance ; and the few shipments of its fibre that 

 have been effected from the former satisfactorily- 

 rewarded, in a monetary sense, the exporters. 



There are also the so-called Aloes of West Africa, 

 of the order Amarylledaceae, among which are 

 mentioned as recorded, according to the ' Flora 

 Nigritiana,' " the Hcemaiithus multiflorus, Mart, and 

 Nodd, from Sierra Leone ; H. cruentatus, Schum 

 and Thonn, from Guinea, very probably the same 

 species ; Crinum purpurascens, Herb, from Fernando 

 Po; C. Broussoneti, Herb, and C. disticJmm, Herb, 

 from Sierra Leone ; C. petiolatum spectabile. Herb, 

 from St. Thomas ; Amaryllis nivea and A. trigona, 

 Schum and Thonn, from Guinea, both evidently 

 Crina, and possibly the same as some of Herbert's 

 species ; and lastly, Gethyllis pilosa, Schum and 

 Thonn, which from the description must be a Cur- 

 culigo, or some allied plant." 



Then in the fibre-yielding DracEnas and Aloes 

 (Liliaces) there is a grand field for development. 

 According to the 'Flora Nigritiana,' the published 

 West Tropical African species are — Urginea Sene- 

 galensis, Kunth, Senegal ; Chlorophytum inornatuin, 

 Ker, and C. orchidastrinn, Lindl., Sierra Leone ; 

 Allhim Guineense, Schum and Thonn, Ornithogatum 

 ensifolmni, Schum and Thonn, Aloe picta, Thunb. 

 and Sanseviera Guineensis, Willd., all from Guinea. 



