56 WEST AFRICAN FORESTS AND FORESTRY 
This is a very lofty tree, with a bole of 40 feet and girth 
of 12 feet. It has not been tried as timber away from the 
locality, but should be valuable as an export, having a pretty 
grain, full of medullary rays. The local value is 3d. to 6d. 
per lineal foot. It is fairly common in the forest, but very 
plentiful outside, as it shoots up from the stump when cut 
down. Naturally, the wood from such trees is not so good as 
from seedlings. 
Rhizophora racemosa.* Mangrove. Dingi (Mendi). 
This is a small tree of the swamps which is found very 
useful for poles and firewood. It fetches a high price from 
the bakers—£1 10s. to £1 15s. a cord. The bark contains 
18 per cent. of tannin. 
Combretacez. 
Anogeissus.* fF 
A chewstick with a black heart. It will kill out Lalong grass. 
Laguncularia racemosa.* 
This is a shrub which grows in the mangrove swamps. 
It yields a second-rate tannin bark. 
Terminalia scutifera.* + 
A large straight, tall-boled tree, yielding a useful timber 
to shipwrights. 
Terminalia sp.* Bagi (Mendi). 
A very large tree, even taller than 7. superba, and the 
timber is yellower. The tree is gnarled and much branched 
near the sea-shore. The wood is much used for canoes. Dye 
and a yellow wash for sore feet are obtained from the bark. 
Terminalia superba.* Kojagei (Mendi). 
A very large tree of 150 feet or more. The timber is soft 
and white, used for indoor work, but it is much attacked by 
borers. 
Myrtacee. 
Eugenia calophylloides.* 
A small tree. 
Melastomacee. 
Memecylon, ci. M. spathulandra.t 
It is a small tree growing in the swamps near Bureh town. 
Araliacee. 
Cussonia Djalonensis. 
A medium-sized to large tree growing in the savannah 
forests. It has a thick grey, rough bark. 
