278 WEST AFRICAN FORESTS AND FORESTRY 
Silvicultural Characteristics.—It bears a good deal of shade. 
It reproduces almost every year plentiful mature seed ; grows 
fast, but not so rapidly as the cotton-tree, Ricinodendron 
and others. It is sometimes distinctly gregarious, as, for in- 
stance, south-west of Benin City. 
European Use.—It has not been exported, but the P.W.D. 
have used it for verandah-posts and planks. It has been much 
admired for the good colour of the wood and the streaky grain. 
Native Use.—By the Benin people it is not considered a 
good wood, but the gum is sometimes used. 
Daniellia ogea. Gum Copal. Ogea (Yoruba); Ogea (Benin) ; 
Udeni (Ibo, Owerri) ; Mpanju, Ikpanya, Akpanya (Efik). Also 
known as D. oblonga and Cyanothyrsus ogea, but now called 
D. ogea. 
This tree is found growing in the heavy-rain intermediary 
forest of Benin, Ondo country and Mamu Reserve. It is a very 
fine tree with straight rounded bole, often reaching a height 
of 120 feet before the first branch. The bark is light grey 
and slightly ringed. The flowers blue and not very noticeable. 
Timber.—Of no commercial value, as it is soft and rots 
quickly. 
Uses.—A good gum copal is obtained from it, the best in 
the ground, after the tree has rotted. It is used for varnish 
making ; worth 30s. to 60s. a hundredweight. 
Daniellia Fosteri. Gum Copal. Oguja or Ogea (Yoruba). 
Found near Olokemeji and Ijebu-Ode. It yields a third- 
quality resin according to Holland in The Useful Plants of 
Nigeria. 
Daniellia Punchit (Kew). Gum Copal. Ajia (Yoruba). 
Daniellia caudata. Benin Gum Copal. Mogbara, Ashuwole (Yoru- 
ba); Ogea (Benin); Agbara (Ikale.) 
It is found in the Ondo, Benin and Ogoja provinces of 
Nigeria. The bole is the straightest and most cylindrical of 
any of the African forest trees. It often attains a height 
of over 100 feet before the first branches are reached. The 
cylindrical shape is further enhanced by the few quite concentric 
rings on the bark, horizontally arranged round the trunk of 
the tree. The bark is otherwise quite smooth and of a silvery- 
green or light-green colour ; for the size of the tree it is very 
thin, and the tree may reach a girth of 25 feet, and the bark 
then is usually only 4 to ? inch thick. The slash is yellowish- 
white ; the sapwood is white and scarcely distinguishable from 
the heartwood, which gradually takes a pinkish tinge when 
it is dry. The flowers are blue and not unlike those of the 
fuchsia, and the tree is easily seen at the end of the dry season 
