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Landolphia Owariensis. Pau (Twi) ; Kwantama (Wassaw) ; Opaina 
(Fanti); Jama (Ashanti); Kwantama (general West Coast) ; 
Amale (Apollonian); Faia (Aowin); Danko (Hausa); Jah- 
danko (Accra). 
Two kinds of rubber obtained: ‘‘root-rubber,” after 
crushing the bark and stems and washing out the rubber, 
or “‘ white-ball,” by tapping and scoring, and coagulating the 
latex as it exudes by lime-juice rubbed on the bark. It is 
valued at 1s. 9d. to 2s. a pound, the root-rubber at ls. 6d. a 
pound. 
Landolphia florida. 
A quantity of milky juice which becomes a pasty mass, 
but has no market value. 
Landolphia Droogmansiana. 
Good rubber obtained when growing in dry ground, worth- 
less when in swampy ground. 
Landolphia Senegalensis. 
Landolphia Thompsonii. 
Widely spread in the fringing forests ; does not yield good 
rubber, only a pasty mass from the latex. 
Landolphia scandens. 
No yield of rubber. 
Landolphia Klaine. 
Inferior rubber. 
Carpodinus hirsuta. Alibida (Hausa). 
Very robust and hairy (hence its name). Found in mixed 
forest belts. It yields a flake or paste rubber, extracted by 
tapping and coagulated by boiling. 
Clitandra elastica. Beckindanko (Hausa). 
Yields a good rubber, sold at ls. 3d. or 1s. 6d. a pound. 
Funtumia elastica. Fruntum(Ashanti) ; Efunmundon (Apollonian) ; 
Efunmundon (Aowin) ; Puni (Krepi). 
The yield of this rubber-tree is called the Lagos or Silk 
rubber. Found in the evergreen rain forests. Very little 
inferior to Para rubber. The amount procured from F. elastica 
is less than Para rubber. 
Funtumia Africana. 
Spurious rubber-tree; though in appearance very much 
like F. elastica, the leaves are coarser and pods longer. The 
latex, when coagulated, forms a sticky mass like birdlime, 
sometimes used for adulterating other latices. 
Alstonia Congensis. Niamidua (Twi); Sindra (Ashanti) ; Nimeri- 
baka (Apollonian). 
Wood rather soft ; only fit for inside building or toy-making. 
It grows best in the swamp country. A fairly large tree, slightly 
