212 WEST AFRICAN FORESTS AND FORESTRY 
Trichilia retusa, Oliv. 
A large timber tree with tall, straight stems, found in the Benué 
region. The flowers are white, appearing about January, in axillary 
racemes or below the leaves ; the leaflets are generally five or three, 
with wide, shallow indentation at the tip. 
Odina Barterit (Anacardiacer). Faru. 
A fair-sized deciduous tree of the savannah forests, with pinnate 
pubescent leaves and inconspicuous flowers in pendulous, clustered 
racemes. It yields a sort of resin, and the small fruits, tipped with 
four sharp points, are eaten by birds. 
? Spondias sp. Danya. 
A very common tree of the drier savannah forests, very abundant 
in the North; it has light foliage of pinnate leaves with small 
leaflets and a yellow, very pleasantly flavoured fruit, with a tough rind 
like that of the mango. The fruits litter the ground in the months 
of May and June. The wood is very hard and used for making a heavy 
kind of basin known as akushi. 
Anogeissus leiocarpus, G. et P. (Combretacex). Marike. 
This is one of the “‘ Chew-sticks ” of Yoruba, and while occurring 
in fringing forests and evergreen patches, it is very common in the open 
savannah regions, but probably does not extend beyond the northern 
boundary. It may be 50 feet in height, and possesses light, graceful 
foliage, pale bark and small yellowish flowers in globose heads, forming 
tiny dry two-winged fruits. It affords an inferior gum and is much 
used medicinally. 
Terminalia sp., near 7’. macroptera, G. et P. Baushe. 
A fairly large tree, 40 feet or more in height, with the oval winged 
and embossed fruits of the genus, along with its congeners, e.g. 7’. 
Elliotit, Engl. and Diels, T. Bawmanii, Engl. and Diels, etc., very 
abundant and typical of the savannahs of Northern Nigeria. Bows 
and sticks are made from the roots. 
Terminalia macroptera, G. et P. Kandari. 
A smaller tree with much broader leaves, typical of open park- 
like formations. 
Combretum spp. 
Several arborescent species of Combretum are truly characteristic 
of the open and bush savannahs, and are well represented even in the 
northern parts, where, however, in some districts, they are replaced 
by Acacias. They are practically all gum-bearing; the flowers are 
small and yellowish in axillary spikes, but the genus is generally 
