94 WEST AFRICAN FORESTS AND FORESTRY 
Calamus Barteri. 
Scandent palm. 
Calamus deerratus. (West) Uwatia and Oyea (Ash.) (Ashanti). 
The common rattan ; marshes. 
Cocos nucifera. Kube (Fanti); Kukwi (Ashanti); Ajui (Aowin) ; 
Eue (Quitta) ; Eavune (Krepi) ; Hukwi (Axim). 
Cocoanut, found in the vicinity of villages on the coast, 
. sometimes inland. 
Fan Palm or Doum. Ago (general West Coast). 
Wood provides beams for building; fruit edible; leaves 
for thatching ; and a strong wine is made from the stem. 
Pheniz reclinata, or Wild Date Palm. Euchresia (Fanti) ; Mileishia 
(Apollonian) ; Mileishia (Aowin) ; Aeyedi (Quitta) ; Iedi (Krepi). 
A small date palm ; grows on the sea-shore. Fruit edible. 
The terminal buds are cooked as a vegetable. A wine is made 
from the stem. 
Liliacez. 
Sansevierta. 
Small tree, fibre-yielding. 
Dracena arborea. 
40 feet in height. 
Dracena Mannii. 
30 fect in height. Yields a light-coloured dye. 
Dracena surculosa. 
Ulmacee. 
Trema affinis. 
A small tree. 
Trema Africana. 
Small tree of secondary forest. 
Meracee. 
Ficus sp. Shedua or Abonsandua (Twi); Mousandua or Okitsi- 
wanfu (Fanti); Shedua (Ashanti); Adowa (Apollonian) ; 
Adowa and Dupain (Aowin) ; Kapro (Grunchi); Aiu (Krepi) , 
Kingkanga (Hausa). 
Some Ficus are tapped for rubber, others fruited. This 
species is a large, smooth-barked tree. 
Ficus platyphylla. 
Fruit edible, cf. Vogelii, and in great demand. 
Ficus Vogelit. 
Medium-sized tree. Latex extracted by tapping. A good 
shade tree. 
