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falls to the ground ; it is then collected by the negro 

 women and children, who resort to the woods for that 

 purpose. The gum is also obtained by stripping the 

 dead or unsound bark from the wood, the more 

 decayed portions of which are commonly saturated 

 with the gummy substance. This woody resinous 

 secretion is used for a variety of purposes, but chiefly 

 as a perfume by the native females of Sierra Leone, 

 who triturate the gum with lime manufactured from 

 sea-shells between two purposely adapted stones, and 

 when reduced to a fine powder they rub their bodies 

 with it. It is also used occasionally for fumigating 

 houses in sickness. — 'Pharmaceutical Journal,' vol. xiv., 

 i8S5, PP- 402-3. Kew Museum. 

 Distribution : Upper Guinea. 



Ogea Gum (Yoruba name), {Daniellia sp.). Tree 

 nearly allied to D. thurifera, Bennett. — From material 

 collected by Captain Moloney on the Gold Coast, 

 the tree affording this substance is believed to be a 

 new species of Daniellia, but until further specimens 

 have been received the specific name cannot be 

 determined. The gum exudes from orifices in the 

 trunk caused by the boring of a grub. Ogea is used 

 by the natives for fires and for light, and when 

 powdered, as a body perfume by the women. Some 

 excellent specimens of the gum, and a transverse 

 section of the stem of the tree, shewing the borings 

 of the grub, from Lagos, are exhibited in the Kew 



