416 WEST AFRICAN FORESTS AND FORESTRY 
the Tiko plain, are the following: Mahogany, Khaya Klainei, Long- 
capsuled Unscented Mahogany, HEntandrophragma Condollei, Scented 
Mahogany, Entandrophragma utilis, Cedar, Guarea sp., Red Ironwood, 
Lophira procera, Canarium Schweinfurthii, Brown Ebony, Diospyros 
sp., Terminalia, Scutifera, Afzelia pachyloba, Berlinia sp., two kinds 
of Camwood, Walnut, Lovoa Klaineana, Pterocarpus tinctorius, as 
well as the valuable orange-coloured wood of Sarcocephalus sambucinus 
and Mahogany-like species of Guttifere and Uapaca Staudtii. 
Some of the “stands” of this timber, and especially on the hill 
slopes of the Cameroon Mountains, are very thick and dense, more 
especially near Debundscha, with its annual rainfall of 423 inches. 
One of the most interesting and unique stands on the mountain- 
side is that of tree-fern, about 30 feet high, as an undergrowth, and 
heavy mahogany, Entandrophragma Rederi, and Ongekea Kamerunensis, 
chiefly at an altitude of 3,500 to 4,000 feet, also quite untouched except 
in the neighbourhood of Buea. 
Only the smallest part of all this area, and in fact only that on 
the bank of the Meme, had been at all operated upon before the war, 
and the forests on the banks of the Akwayefe were quite untouched. 
All the higher slopes and the northern sides of the Cameroon Moun- 
tains, and beyond as far as Mount Gonistan, were also quite unused. 
All through this part the villages are comparatively few and far 
between, and even in those parts where they are closer together, the 
population in each is very small, and the forest growth is so thick 
that they make little impression upon it. Added to that, the chief 
crop grown by the natives is the cacao-yam, for which only compara- 
tively small areas are necessary, and in many cases this is grown in 
small spaces in the shade of giant forest trees. Also, all through this 
area only comparatively small patches, compared to the whole, have 
been cleared and planted with cacao. Again, the area occupied by 
the European-owned cacao and rubber plantations is very small, 
and chiefly found near Victoria and a little both westward and east- 
ward at the base of the Cameroon Mountain (Mount Fako). 
Turning now to the Mungo River region, we have in some ways 
an even more valuable forest area. Here, indeed, one German firm 
had actually made a felling over an area of nearly one square mile 
and had sold nearly all the timber’ in Germany. 
Amongst the more prevalent species found are the following : 
Bush Oak, Chlorophora excelsa, Black Ebony, Diospyros Gilgiana, Pear- 
wood, Mimusops Djave (which is found in immense specimens on the 
edge of the Kumba road), Inoi Nut, Poga oleosa, with its light-reddish 
wood with wide medullary rays; African Greenheart, Cylicodiscus 
Gabunensis, a magnificent tree; Shinglewood, Scented Mahogany, 
Guarea glomerulata, Brown Teak, Brachystegia cynometroides, Long- 
capsuled Mahogany, Entandrophragma Condollei, the Oil Bean, Penta- 
