246 WEST AFRICAN FORESTS AND FORESTRY 
Both this and the former species are propagated very easily 
by cuttings. In fact, it is possible to take the end of a branch 
complete with the leaves and put it in the ground, when it 
will grow. It likes a comparatively deep moist soil, though 
it will stand any amount of drought without actually dying. 
It stands pruning well and grows moderately rapidly. 
It is useful for making live fences. 
Native Use.—Both Yorubas and Benis use the tree for 
boundaries, simply sticking cuttings in wherever it is wished 
to mark a place. “ Ju-ju’’ places are also marked in this way. 
The leaves are used medicinally in Benin. 
Dracena Perottetii. Boundary tree. Ope, Kanakan (Yoruba). 
Found in the Mamu Forest. 
Dracena sp. Boundary tree. Oro Igbo (Yoruba); Uruaro 
(Benin). 
A common Dracena found in the Benin and Abeokuta 
provinces of Nigeria. It is often used for making fences to 
farms and boundaries for village or farm land, and for marking 
special ‘‘ Ju-ju’”’ places. The Benin people state that it has 
more latex than the other species of this genus. 
Marantacez. 
Clinogyne, syn. Donax cusputata. Yoruba Soft Cane. Toto (Y.). 
It is found in the Abeokuta province of Nigeria. It is 
a small soft cane which grows gregariously in groups from a 
quarter to half an acre in extent in the Olokemeji Reserve, to 
a height of about 5 feet, and has large, alternating, very fine 
parallel-veined leaves. Inflorescence, raceme or panicle-like 
bracts, deciduous. Some species yield starch or fibre. Toto is 
found quite abundantly in the middle of the Olokemeji Reserve. 
It is used for mat-making, and considered most valuable. 
Orchidacez. 
Polystachya sp. (Lindl.). Eme-ela (Yoruba). 
It is found in the Olokemeji Reserve in the Abeokuta 
province of Nigeria. 
Polystachya odorata. Afoma (Yoruba). 
This is a parasitic plant, very similar to mistletoe, which 
attacks many kinds of trees and has recently been found on 
the six-year-old teak at Mamu and Olokemeji, in the Abeokuta 
province of Nigeria. 
Ulmacee., 
Celtis solenostigma. Hard Celtis (large). Ita (Yoruba); Ita, 
Uta (Ikale); Ohianamemme, Ohia (Benin); Omoin, Itako, 
Ita gangan (Egba). 
