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It deserves a further trial as a. pattern-wood, comparatively 
large quantities being available. Locally it has not been 
sawn up for planks. 
In Calabar the timber is used for stools, which are carved 
out of large solid blocks of this wood in one piece, without 
a joint. 
Native Use.—In the Benin country the timber is used for 
doors and the roots for medicine. 
The box of the musical instrument Asologun, a kind of 
zither, is made of this wood in the Yoruba country. The latex 
is used for mixing with real rubber latex of the Anyo or Fun- 
tumia elastica tree. 
Voacanga Africana (Stapf.). Cloth Shrub. Dodo, Giwini (Yoru- 
ba); Igbo (Benin). 
It is a common shrub-like tree in the Ogoja, Onitsha, Benin, 
Warri, Ondo, Ibadan and Abeokuta provinces of Nigeria. The 
tree is usually noticeable from its white wax-like, trumpet- 
shaped flowers, which have a very fragrant scent, and which 
very rapidly wither when cut. The bark is thin and extremely 
fibrous and hard to break, so much so that the natives of the 
Asaba district make grass-like fibre out of it and mix it with 
a silk fibre to make a very durable kind of cloth, which the 
natives wear. It grows in waste places and requires light. 
It sprouts well from the stump. 
Conopharyngia durissima. 
This tree is found in the Western Provinces. It is of a 
similar size to C. pachysiphon, and the timber is just as 
durable. 
Conopharyngia pachysiphon. False Boxwood. Dodo? (Yoruba) ; 
Ibbu (Benin). 
It is a common tree in the Calabar, Warri, Benin and Ondo 
provinces of Nigeria. A small tree, attaining a girth of only 
4 feet, with a large leaf, bearing large spherical-shaped fruits 
in pairs. The large creamy-white, strongly scented flowers 
are conspicuous to both sight and scent. The bark, even in 
its younger stages, is covered with small yellow lenticels. The 
wood is hard and yellow in colour, and there is no difference 
between sapwood and heartwood. The latex has sometimes 
been used as an adulterant for rubber. It is a shade-bearer, 
and is found at the border of the evergreen and mixed deciduous 
forests. 
The natives of the Benin country use the roots for medicinal 
purposes. 
Farquharia elliptica. Onanisankianmon (Benin). 
This is a member of the new genus of Farquharia found by 
