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WEST AFRICAN FORESTS AND FORESTRY 
V. WESTERN CIRCLE, NIGERIA. 
EBUTTEMETTA GARDENS. 
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Large Teak Tree (Tectona grandis), about sixteen years old, Ebuttemetta 
Gardens 
Large Para (Hevea Brosiliensis), Ebuttemetta Gardeis, age about aicteon 
years z ‘ . j . ‘ ‘ ° . ‘ 
VI. WESTERN CIRCLE, NIGERIA. 
OLOKEMEJI ARBORETUM AND Rartway PLANTATION aND Two 
Srupies or CAPSULES. 
The Chief Conservator of Forests’ House, with five-year-old Albizzia 
Lebbek standing beside it . 
Three capsules of Mahogany (Khaya grandis Ivoriensis and Punchid), 
from banks of Owena River a 
Capsules of three species of Entandrophregma : EB. macrophyllum, the 
largest; ZH. utilis, the next in size; and Z. cylindricum, the smallest 
Cedrela odorata, seven years old, with Forest Office in pais ais 
Olokemeji . 
Cedrela odorata, Gigar-box Cedar, girth 5 Foot; twelve years old, Oloke- 
meji Arboretum . 3 . . 
Teak (Tectona grandis), ten sears old, Olokemeji Arborstim - 
Teak, six years old, Olokemeji Arboretum . 
Khaya Senegalensis, five years old, from dead obtained by H. N. 
Thompson, Esq., in Shaki District . 
Mature Iroko Tree (Chlorophora excelsa), over 12 fest in girth i in 1911, 
since cut down and used for building the Chief Conservator of 
Forests’ house . ‘i ‘ : : j : : . : 
VII. NORTHERN PROVINCES, NIGERIA. 
Marsh or “‘ fadama, ”’ with islets of foliage, Benué overflow near Yola 
The Lower Niger in flood : : 
Fringing Forest on River Benué, in the rainy season 
A Baobab (Adansonia digitata) 
Giginya or ‘“‘ Fan Palm ” ee fabelifr var. Bihiopum), with: water: 
lilies (Nympheacee) . 
VIII. WESTERN CIRCLE, OLOKEMEJI ARBORETUM. 
Mahogany (Khaya grandis), 64 years old, showing bent leader, sis di to 
previous one being eaten out by the leading-shoot borer . 
1909 Mahogany (Khaya grandis and K. Punchii) Plantation after six 
years’ growth, near road to Chief Conservator’s ae Olokemeji 
Arboretum . i 
The largest Mahogany (Khaya Punchit), seven — ld, Olokemesi 
Arboretum, in the Forest Reserve ‘ 
Corner of the 1908 Teak Plantation, Olokemeji Arboretum, showing 
it at the end of the dry season, March 1915, Captain Owens 
Cedrela odorata, Cigar-box Cedar, three years old (seen elas), 
R. E. Dennett, Esq. . 
Corner tree of the 1908 Teak Plantation, “with H. N. Thompson, Esq, ¢9 
1911. 
Shea Butter Tree (Bidpraapermian Parkii), standing near the ‘Conservator 
of Forests’ house, June 1915, after being Bale from fire eight 
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