234 WEST AFRICAN FORESTS AND FORESTRY 
8TH CLass TREES. 
Minimum girth limit, 12 inches. 
Fees—On trees over 24 inches in girth, 6d. per tree. 
On trees 12 to 24 inches in girth, 3d. per tree. 
Rhizophora racemosa. Red Mangrove. Egba (Yoruba). 
Rhizophora mangle. Red Mangrove. 
Avicennia Africana: White Mangrove. Ofun (Yoruba). 
For the purposes of this schedule, the girths must be measured 
at a vertical distance of 4 feet 6 inches from the ground at the foot 
of the tree, or in the case of buttressed trees at the place where the 
highest buttress merges into the stem. 
SCHEDULE B 
PROTECTED MINOR FOREST PRODUCE 
Ist Cuass. 
Fee, 15s.; Royalty, 5s.; Total, 203. per permit. 
Rubber—taken from wild rubber-yielding trees and vines. 
2np Cass. 
Fee, 7s. 6d.; Royalty, 2s. 6d.; Total, 10s. per permit. 
Bamboo poles—taken from the midribs of the Tombo palm (Raphia 
vinifera) or other species of Raphia. Piassava fibre from the stem 
and midribs (leaf stalks) of the Raphia and other species of palms. 
And in the Northern Provinces : 
Poles, gofas, etc., not to exceed 6 inches in diameter, taken from 
Isoberlinia sp., Anogeissus leiocarpus, Ormosia laxiflora, Lophira alata 
or Pterocarpus erinaceus. ° 
3RD CLASS. 
Fee, 48. 6d.; Royalty, 1s. 6d.; Total, 6s. per permit. 
Chew-sticks—or native tooth-brushes taken from the roots of 
the Iyin tree (Anogeissus letocarpus). 
Native sponges—made from the bast fibres of various species 
of vines and lianes. 
Pandanus fibre (from the screw pine) and the leaf stalk of all 
species of Phrynium, taken for the manufacture of mats. 
Gum copal. 
Gum arabic—and other gums procured from Acacias, 
