LIBERIA 77 
Cola acuminata. Cola. 
Much like the Poplar in appearance. The wood is used 
in ship-building, house-building and furniture. The oily, edible 
Cola Nut is in great demand. 
Cola digitata. 
The oily seeds much used in medicine. 
Heritiera utilis. 
The timber hard and useful for various purposes, the bark 
in tanning. Fruit woody. 
Dilleniacez. 
Tetracera potatoria. Water Tree. 
A small, hairy tree growing on the dry and sunny parts 
of the coast savannahs. It yields a profuse amount of water 
from the stems; hence its name. 
Tetracera @rocarpa. 
Very similar to the above. Used as a medicine by the 
natives. 
Tetracera Dinklaget. 
Similar to the other Tetracera species. 
Tetracera sp. White Cedar. 
Reaches a girth of 10 or 12 feet. Wood soft and grain 
too open for export. 
Ochnacez. 
Lophira procera. African Oak or Red Ironwood. 
This tree yields oil-bearing seeds. The wood is hard and 
heavy, of a reddish brown. Sold as African Oak. The wood 
is also used in charcoal-making. 
Guttiferz. 
Pentadesma. Butter or Tallow Tree. 
A tall, slender tree growing by the streams. Wood light 
in colour, useful in various ways. Also found in Sierra 
Leone. 
Garcinia kola. Bitter Cola. 
A large but slow-growing tree, with a hard, prettily grained 
wood, rather uncommon. 
Garcinia sp. % Mahogany. 
The wood sometimes sold as mahogany. 
Garcinia sp. Chew-stick. 
The smaller roots are used as chew-sticks, but taking these 
in the drastic method in which it is done generally means death 
to the tree. It is found on summits of the mountains. 
