140 WEST AFRICAN FORESTS AND FORESTRY 
cork-like and deeply corrugated, the wood brownish and very 
hard. Height, 35 ft. 
Combretum Kerstingit. Alembole (Tschandjo). 
Hard, greyish-brown wood, used for firewood. 
Terminalia dictyoneura. Ssua (Tschandjo). 
Terminalia macroptera. Ssua dau (Tschandjo). 
These two Terminalia both have a beautiful glossy brown 
wood, useful for many purposes. Both are about 48} feet in. 
height. 
Terminalia Baumannii. Opiti (Atakpame). 
A beautiful prairie tree, the wood not yet tried. 
Terminalia superba. 
Terminalia Togoensis. 
Pieleopsis Kerstingii. Ssissina (Tschandjo). 
A fair-sized tree in the Bassari savannah. The natives say 
it has neither flowers nor fruit, but this naturally cannot be 
the case. 
Anogeissus leiocarpus. Tsetse or Echéché (Ewe); Kodelia 
(Tschandjo) ; Anyi (Anago); Ogo (Akposso) ; Kanna (Asante) ; 
Kakanla (Kratschi) ; Chlehé (F5). 
A tree 974 feet high, growing on the river banks and on the 
moist savannahs, very widespread. The fruit is much like 
that of our alder. The wood very hard, proof against attacks 
of the termites, with a black heartwood like ebony, and used 
as such. The most valuable wood of the Colony. 
Myrtacee. 
Syzygium Guineense. Tschapéa (Tschandjo). 
A fair-sized tree on the shore slopes. A white, easily-worked 
wood. Used by the natives for making tools, images of their 
gods, chairs, etc. In some parts for building purposes. 
Araliacee. 
Cussonia Bartert. Fegblo (Ewe); Kongolu (Tschandjo); Indoa- 
baka (Mangu); Digo (Anago); Obbd (Akposso); Bénugt 
(Misahéhe) ; Gotti (F6). 
A characteristic tree of the Baobab savannahs near Misahéhe. 
The wood is spongy and cannot be worked, but the ashes are 
of use in making a blue dye. 
Umbellifere. 
Peucedanum araliaceum, var. fraxinifolium. Lando (Tschandjo). 
A tree under medium height, of the pasture lands. The 
bark of the young shoots is used for squirts and syringes The 
wood is easy to cut. 
