“The natives make furniture [from the timber], and especially UE ae 
boats of great solidity. ‘The bark is greyish brown, deeply cracked, of 
an infusion and decoction. The tree is known to the negroes [of 
Senegam bia] as Caz/, and to the m residents as Cail- Cedra 
The exact distribution of Kha eat is evidently not well 
known, According to the Flora of Tropical Africa it is abundant 
near Cape Verde and on the Gambia, but a is not recorded as existing 
cou on the West Coast. A form “ mn sparse inflorescence, 
hite Nile, and it is supposed to ides been met with by Dr. Meller TE 
* fruiting or flowering specimens shall have been matched doubt must — 
“attach to the above stations in Eastern Africa.” Quite recently à — 
sample of gum coilected at Fanimah, Sierra Leone, by Mr. Alldridge, 
Travelling Commissioner, has been identified at Kew as yielded by this 
tree. Mr. Alldridge, in a letter dated Sulymah, 2nd May 1890, 
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mall tin containing a sample of gum which has been pte in oo 
from Fanimah. It is stated to be plentiful. I noticed the 
when I was only able to get a very small sample. I haye now, - 
fortunately, succeeded in obtaining the present sample, which I trust - 
will be sufficient for experimental purposes and to report upon. 
Although the gum proved of no value the observation respecting the 
trees yielding it has shown that Khaya senegalensis ex 
further (about 500 miles) down the coast than was at first $ 
and it is probable that it may be found still further down. The West 
African mahogany now in the English market comes s from Assinee, a 3 
river on the western boundary of Gold Coast Colony and Ashanti. No — 
specimens, as yet, of the leaves and fruit have been received from sh 
locality, but Mesers. Godfrey S. Saunders & Co. have been good enough - 
to furnish the following information respecting the timber. 
à [No. 1.] ; et 
Messrs, Goprrey S. Saunpers & Co. to Rovat Garpens, KEW. - 
5, New London Epi London, E.C., 
Dear Sin, 18th Ma 
Many tents for your note and the sample of Gambia mahogany, 
ae 208.1 ust come in. i Qt 
lan te fest several imports of mahogany from Assinee E a 
denm on the West Coast of Africa), but they strike me as being iie 
different wood, being softer, lighter, and although good useful v o 
not, I fancy, so good as your specimen, though yours seems a tri e too 
han 
This Assinee wood comes forward in well squared oe enerally eu 
about 14 feet long, and a lot of 27 logs, weighing 43 tons last in, 
from 24 to 40 inches in diameter at the larger end. é a € 
I think it would be quite worth while for your rien à in 
sample 25 logs, hewn as square as us 14 feet and upward 
* The gum was of a dark colour and of little strength. Messrs. 
RUM Orc Ds 
of Mincing Lane, report that “a consignment wou nd not haa — foflicient : 
to cover freight and charges." 
