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of the coast, though of these the greater part are yet un- 

 pubUshed. 



Many of the Trees, thePahns, and several other remark- iw 

 able plants, which characterise the landscape, as Adansonia, 

 Bombax pentandrum, Anthocleista, Musanga of the natives 

 (the genus related to Cecropia,) Mmis Guineensis, Haphia 

 vinifera and Pandanus Candelabrum, appear to be very 

 general along the whole extent of coast. 



Stercidia acuminata} the seed of which is the Cola, men- 

 tioned in the earliest accounts of Congo, exists, and is 

 equally valued, in Guinea and Sierra Leone, and, what is 

 remarkable, has the same name in every part of the west 

 coast. 



The Ordeal Tree noticed in Professor Smith's journal 

 under the name of Cassa, and in Captain Tuckey's narra- 

 tive erroneously called a species of Cassia, if not absolutely 

 the same plant as the Bed Water Tree of Sierra Leone,' 

 and as it is said also of the Gold Coast, belongs at least to 

 the same genus. 



A species of the Cream Fruit, mentioned by Professor 

 Afzelius,^ remarkable in affording a wholesome and pleasant 

 saccharine fluid, used by the natives of Sierra Leone even 

 to quench their thirst, though the plant belongs to Apoci- 

 nese, a family so generally deleterious, was also met with. 



The 8arcoceplialus of the same author,* which is proba- 

 bly what he has noticed under the name of the country-fig 

 of Sierra Leone,^ was found, and seems to be not uncom- 

 mon, on the banks of the Congo. 



Anona Senegalensis, whose fruit, though smaller than 

 that of the cultivated species of the genus, has, according 

 to Mr. Lockhart, a flavour superior to any of them, was 

 everywhere observed, especially above Embomma, and 

 appears to be a very general plant along the whole extent 

 of coast. 



And Chrysohalanus Icaco, or a species very nearly 

 related to it, which is equally common from Senegal to 



' Be Beauvois. Flore d'Oteare, 1, p. 41, t. 24. 



^ Winterbottom' s Sierra Leone, 1, p. 129. 



' Sierra Leone Report for 1794, p. 173, n. 47. 



* In Herb. Banks. ' Op. cit. p. 171, n. 33. 



