THE FORESTS OF WESTERN AFRICA 
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Forests are in addition named after the locality, such as Benin 
Forests, Oban Forests, Ondo Forests. 
Again, yet another nomen- 
clature is after the kind of tree represented, such as Evergreen Forest, 
where all the trees are evergreen all the year round; for instance, 
Calabar Forests, Ondo, South Benin. 
The mixed forests and intermediate forests, where the trees are 
both evergreen and deciduous, growing side by side, such as Olokemeji 
Forests, Benin Forests, Obubra Forests, and Bende Forests. 
Thus 
summarising the Nigerian Forests, we get the following formations : 
1. Nigerian Swamp = ate 
2. Evergreen Forests 
. Freshwater Swamp Forests 
3. Mixed Deciduous, intermediate 
Forests 
. Fringing Forests aa 
4. Canopied Deciduous Forests 
(sometimes termed dense 
Savannah Forests) 
5. Open Deciduous Forests ws 
6. Tree Savannah Orchard Forest 
7. Treeless Savannah i... a 
Evergreen: Mangrove, type tree. 
Lophira procera, Parinarium. 
Cynometra mitragyne. 
Triplochiton, Iroko, Chlorophora 
excelsa. 
Mixed, deciduous really. 
Olokemeji: Berlinia, Afzelia. 
Paradaniella Oliverii, Ugenia Owa- 
riensis, Terminalia Togoensis. 
Lophira alata, Shea butter, Acacia ; 
Iwu, Oyo, Ndeh. 
Grass, a few stunted bushes of 
Acacia Isoberlinia, North 
Ogoja. 
