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Avicennia Africana. 
One of the tallest trees in the mangrove association, yielding 
a workable wood, medicine and tannin. 
Clerodendron splendens. 
A shrubby tree. 
Bignoniacee. 
Spathodea campanulata. Osisiru (Ashanti). 
A medium-sized tree, found in the fringing forests. 
Provides a useful timber, medicine, and from the seeds an 
article of food. Large yellow trumpet-shaped flowers. 
Dolichandrone lutea. 
A tree of about 30 feet in height. 
Kigelia pinnata. 
The fruit has a thick rind and is edible. Timber and drugs 
obtained from it. Sometimes called Sausage Tree, from the 
sausage-shaped fruits which hang down a long stalk. A small 
tree. 
Newbouldia levis. Sasanemasa (Ashanti). 
An evergreen tree, from 30 to 40 feet in height. Pink 
trumpet-shaped flowers. The natives use it as a boundary 
tree. 
Acanthacee. 
Acantha montana. 
A shrubby tree having medicinal properties. 
Rubiacez. 
Mitragyne macrophylla. Baya (Twi); Yar-yar, or Ya-ya (general 
West Coast); Baya (Aowin): 
A large tree growing in the fresh-water swamps. Timber 
good. 
Sarcocephalus esculentus. Kusia (Twi); Ekusawa (Fanti); Kishia 
(general West Coast); Baya (Aowin). 
Good timber, used locally. Wood of a golden yellow colour, 
very ornamental, hard and durable, easily worked. 
Sarcocephalus Russegeri. Osupawa (Fanti). 
The Russegeri grows in the savannah forests. 
Gardenia tenuifolia. 
Fruit edible. A bushy, ornamental tree. 
Urophyllum hirtellum. 
A shrubby tree. Dyes obtained from it. 
Randia genipefiora. 
A small tree having fine trumpet-shaped flowers. 
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