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the rainfall rises to 55 inches per year. Near the summit of the 
station hill the soil is poor, but excellent on the lower slopes. 
The climatic conditions of Pfandu, a substation to Misahéhe, are 
unfavourable, and labour is less obtainable. The road between these 
two stations passes through very poor dry-zone forest, but on entering 
the Misahéhe mountainous region we came upon a fine evergreen 
forest. The most common trees noticed were Khaya Klainti, Mahogany, 
Iroko and Terminalia superba, the shingle-wood tree, also Triplo- 
chiton, Sterculia cordifolia, Carapa procera, Piptadenia Africana, 
Pentaclethra macrophylla, Detarium Guineensis, Brachystegia spice- 
formis, Berlinia acuminata, Afrormosia laxiflora, Satinwood, Alstonia 
Congensis, Ricinodendron Africanum and Eriodendron Nigericum. 
The mahoganies of this district were remarkably fine trees, mostly 
over 10 feet in girth. 
A written permit, costing 3s. per tree, has to be obtained for 
cutting trees, and also permission from the Commissioner, before 
forest land may be cleared. 
The high rainfall of Misahéhe, which is 62 inches per year, produces 
a very moist atmosphere. 
After a visit of three days to the Misahéhe Station, I left for 
Palime, the terminus of the Lome Railway. On the way down the 
mountain, the contrast between the eastern and western slopes was 
very noticeable, a deciduous forest covering the eastern slope and 
an evergreen forest the western. For the first 10 miles from Palime 
on the way to Lome, mahoganies, oil palms and other trees abounded, 
but gradually gave way to the same drier type of forest as that seen 
on the Nuatja railway-line. 
This condition of vegetation continued until Lome was reached, 
a distance of 75 miles. 
II. THe Forest DEPARTMENT PLANTATIONS. 
During 1907 there was a Forestry Conference in Berlin with regard 
to the afforestation of the Colony of Togo (which is wooded only to 
the extent of 1 per cent.), with the result that the area of Haho-Baloé 
was first chosen, and the plantation started at the junction of the 
rivers. 
A fringing mixed forest on each bank of the river was left untouched, 
as they formed a fire protection for the plantation. Pseudocedrelas, 
Pterocarpus erinaceus, Butyrospermum Parkii and Terminalia were 
the most common trees found in the open forest between the 
rivers. 
The altitude of this area above sea-level is about 480 feet. It 
slopes slightly from north to south and is triangular in shape. 
Seedlings were first tried, but did not survive the first season, 
