THE NIGERIAN TIMBER TREES 875 
Eugenia Owariensis. Isinren (Yoruba). 
This tree is found in the dry-zone forests—a spreading 
tree which flowers in February. 
It yields timber, edible fruits and medicaments. 
Melastomacez. 
Memecylon sp., nr. Barterii. 
It is found in the Olokemeji Reserve in the Abeokuta 
province of Nigeria. 
Araliacee. 
Cussonia Nigerica (Hutch.). Elephant Sugar-cane. Sigo (Yoruba). 
This is an evenly and rather deeply fissured small tree of 
the dry-zone forest, which has in the main only a great tuft 
of large digitate leaves at the top of the stem. It is occasionally 
branched, when it gives an appearance of bearing all the leaves 
at the end of the stem. It is fairly common in the Olokemeji 
Forest Reserve of the Abeokuta province. This tree is one 
of the few digitate-leaved trees of the dry zone, and is certainly 
one with the largest ; it is a fire-resisting tree. The natives 
occasionally use the stem for house and verandah posts. 
Umbelliferz. 
Heptapleura Mannii. Found in the Oban Reserve. 
Sapotacez. 
Mimusops multinervis. Emido or Sleeper Wood. Ako Emido 
(Yoruba) ; Aganokwi (Benin). 
This species is found in the Abeokuta and Oyo provinces 
of Nigeria; it is most common, and, in fact, forms almost 
half the crop in the belt of forest just on the south side of the 
railway four to six miles east and west of Olokemeji Station. 
The most distinguishing feature of this tree is the grey, thick, 
deeply-fissured bark. With its comparatively short bole and 
stout, crooked branches, it is not unlike an oak. It reaches 
a height of about 80 feet and a girth of about 15 feet. The 
root spurns are practically non-existent. The trunk tapers 
off quite abruptly after each series of branches. The crown 
is rather long and sometimes almost pear-shaped. The foliage 
is dense, and, for the size of the tree, the leaves are small. 
The flowers are small and white and conspicuous. The fruit 
is a small round nut, about half an inch in diameter. The 
leaves are a very dark green colour, but on the upper surface 
are often shiny. 
