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used to any extent for local use. It deserves a further trial 
both as an export wood and as a wood for local floor-boards. 
Its qualities are far from properly known. 
Among the natives it is used as firewood. 
Albizzia sp. Walnut. Ayinre Ayinre, Ayinretta (Yoruba); Ikpa- 
wudu, Owawelugu (Benin). 
It is a large tree, up to 6 feet in girth. It has rather 
narrower pinne, but of similar round shape to A. Brownit. 
It is a common tree of the mixed deciduous forests in 
the Abeokuta, Ibadan, Ondo, Benin, Onitsha, Owerri and 
Ogoja provinces of Nigeria. 
The root spurns are very small. The bark gets rougher 
than that of A. Brownii in old age, the crown is longer and more 
feathery, and the leaves appear to be more of a silvery green. 
The sapwood is white and the heartwood is of a yellowish- 
brown colour, tending to become a light brown when exposed 
to the air. It is comparatively soft; is not termite-proof. It 
is easy to work, planing and sawing well, and taking nails 
easily and splitting fairly well. It is, however, less durable 
than A. Brownit or fastigata. When split and dried it is more 
durable than when cut up in the ordinary way. The wood 
hardens very considerably on exposure to the sun. 
It is a light-loving, fast-growing tree. It scarcely protects 
the soil, but the leaf fall enriches it. Natural regeneration 
appears to be good. It tends to spread with the increase of 
farms, more especially on the poorer laterite soils. A few 
plantations have been made with this tree. The volume of 
produce per acre is less than in the case of A. Brownit, but 
apparently greater than any of the others. It is less rapidly 
growing than A. Brownii, but faster than the others. 
The timber has not been used for export, and it is doubtful 
if it would repay the cost. Locally it has been used for planks, 
but it is not liked so much as that of A. Brownii or fastigata. 
By the local people it is used for firewood, and occasionally 
for building temporary houses. 
Anglocalyx ramiflorus (Taub). Ekiyawa (Benin). 
It is a large tree, attaining a girth of 8 feet, but the trunk 
is not over-long in proportion. It is a shade-bearing, soil- 
protecting and soil-improving tree. The bark is a dark olive- 
green and smooth. It is found in the Benin province of Nigeria. 
Natural regeneration appears to be poor. The wood is yellow- 
ish-brown and floats when quite dry. The timber was valued 
at nothing in 1906 and stated to be a whitewood in the Liver- 
pool market. 
Native Use.—None. 
