82 WEST AFRICAN FORESTS AND FORESTRY 
Brimstone has a fruit not unlike coffee, and bears seeds plentifully ; 
it should therefore not be difficult to raise seedlings for making planta- 
tions. The trees grown from stool-shoots do not appear to attain 
nearly such a large size as those grown from seedlings in the forest. 
2. Chlorophora excelsa (Rock Elm, African Oak) is a common 
tree which is cut for local use. The heartwood, which rapidly darkens 
from a light-yellow brown colour to a dark old-oak brown colour 
on exposure to air, is very durable for inside or outside work. Though 
white ants attacks and destroy the sapwood, they make little or no 
progress in properly seasoned heartwood. Locally it realises 10s. 
per 100 feet. It is plentiful, and has a distinct tendency to spread 
into old farms, where the seedlings have more light to develop than 
in the forest. 
3. Iyawey (Red Cedar, or Isganwe) is also a common tree which is 
cut for local use. It is a large and straight-growing tree, and attains a 
girth of about 10 feet. Owing to the wood being comparatively soft, 
easy to saw and of a nice red colour, it fetches 12s. per 100 feet, which 
is more than is obtained for several other local timbers. 
4, Oldfieldia Africana (Black Oak, Beechwood) is cut for local 
use, for sale as planks at 24d. per foot, and uprights and beams at 
3s. per cubic foot. One of the chief uses of this timber is for the 
keelsons of the locally made sea-going boats. Owing to the diffi- 
culty of the local sawyers in handling heavy logs on the raised wooden 
pit-saw framework on which the logs are sawn, only comparatively 
small trees are felled, and consequently there is more waste, and under- 
sized trees are prematurely sacrificed owing to the poor methods of 
the local sawyers. Less timber, especially heartwood, is thus 
obtained. 
5. Parinarium sp. (White Oak) is a moderately common 
tree. It attains a good height and a girth of 12 feet. It has large 
root flanges reaching about 10 feet up the bole. Although a some- 
what hard wood, it is used locally either as planks and posts or as 
beams and logs. It is said to be durable, and is worth 2s. per cubic 
foot when sawn. 
6. Afzelia Africana (Mahogany, Kontah) is a medium-sized tree 
which is not very prevalent in the forest, but is much more so outside 
in the open forest country. The timber, which is hard, has an open 
grain with a good yellow-brown colour, not unlike Iroko. It is very 
durable, and used as planks and logs. In the plank it is sold at 6d. 
per superficial foot, and in the log at 3s. 6d. per cubic foot. This is 
considered one of the best local woods, partly owing to its grain being 
-somewhat similar to mahogany. Seedlings appear in old farms where 
there are but few grasshoppers. Otherwise trees grown in a nursery 
are attacked by these insects, as well as by rodents of different kinds. 
7. Daniella Ogea (Blue Bessie) is sold as planks at 3d. per super- 
