FORESTRY OF WEST AFRICA. 343- 



tanning. — ' Catalogue des Produits des Colonies Fran- 

 gaises, Exposition Universelle de 1867,' p. 83, &c. 



Distribution : Upper Guinea, North Central, Nile 

 Land, Lower Guinea. 



Gonakie {Acacia Adaiisonii, Guill. et Perr.). — Tree, 

 thirty to forty feet high. Wood veiy fine, hard, and 

 durable ; suitable for naval construction : for knees, 

 planking for decks, futtocks, &c. The astringent 

 fruits are used in tanning. The gum from this tree is 

 used by the Moors in dysentery, and the pods, bark 

 and leaves are employed by the Negroes in scorbutic 

 affections and ophthalmia. — 'Catalogue des Produits 

 des Colonies Frangaises, Exposition Universelle de 

 1867,' pp. 44, 102 ; ' Flora Senegambia,' Guillemin et 

 Perrottet. 



Distribution : Upper Guinea. 



Acacia albida, Delile. — Large tree. It affords a 

 gum similar to gum arable. — Kew Museum. 



Distribution : Upper Guinea, Nile Land, Lower 

 Guinea, Mozambique District. 



Gum Arabic, Babool of India, Neb Neb (Yoloff) 

 {Acacia arabica, Willd.). — Moderate-sized or large 

 tree. In India the wood is used for wheels, agri- 

 cultural implements, railway-sleepers, fuel, &c., and 

 on the Nile for boat-building. The bark is a most 

 powerful astringent, and is employed by the Negroes 

 of Senegambia in dysentery ; it is also used in dyeing 



