XXV.] IROKO. 307 



Mention may also be made of Iroko, a very valuable 

 and handsome building and cabinet wood, with characters 

 like Satin-wood or wavy Maple, and yielded by Chloro- 

 phora excelsa in Yoruba land, West Africa.* 



* Kew Bulletin, 1891, p. 42. For further details conqerning African trees, the 

 reader may consult Reports of the Colonial and Indian Exhibition — Report on 

 the Natal Forests, H. G. Fourcade, Maritzburg, 1889, and Report of the 

 Colonial Botanist to the Cape (1866). 



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