58 WEST AFRICAN FORESTS AND FORESTRY 
Loganiacee. 
Anthocleista nobilis.* Pongoi-hei (Mendi). 
This is a larger species than the A. parviflora; it is not 
armed. The root is used as a medicine. The wood is soft 
and useless. 
Anthocleista parviflora.* Pongoi-hini (Mendi). 
In English sometimes called Cabbage Palm. This species 
reaches scarcely over 30 feet in height; it is armed with strong, 
twin-set spines. The wood is soft and useless. 7 
Apocynacee. 
Funtumia elastica.* African Rubber Tree. Emarr (Timani) ; Buboi 
(Mendi). 
This tree grows to a height of 50 feet. It is rare in Sierra 
Leone, but has been found in Kagnari, Nimmini and Loma 
Mountains. It yields a good rubber. 
Funtumia Africana.* Rubber. Buboi (Mendi). 
This species grows to a height of 70 feet. It yields an 
abundant latex of no commercial value. 
Polydoa Elliotii. Boxwood. K’Palen (Timani); Kofee or Kofei 
(Mendi). 
It is a small tree with greenish pimply bark. The wood 
is very hard, like boxwood, and is used to make hair combs 
and hoe handles. Medicine is made from the bark. 
Alstonia Congensis.* | Kauwi (Mendi). 
A large, tall tree with a straight stem, found in the penin- 
sular forests. 
Landolphia Owariensis jenje.* Common Rubber Vine. Huwi 
Djenjei (Mendi). 
The export of this rubber was at one time very profitable, 
but the natives overtapped the tree, and even dug up the 
roots to extract the rubber. The fruit of this species is 
edible. 
Landolphia Heudelotii.* 
This is a climber 40 feet in height, and one of the most 
valuable of the Landolphias, found in many parts; but it is the 
characteristic vegetation of the dry interior of Senegambia 
and the Upper Niger. 
Landolphia leonensis.* Nali (Mendi). 
A climber reaching the tops of the highest trees. The 
fruit is 3} inches in diameter. The pulp around the seed is 
edible. The latex is used as bird-lime, but yields no rubber, 
and cannot even be used as an adulterant. 
Callichilia subsessilis.* 
It is a shrub or small tree having a handsome flower. 
