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pumpkins, water melon, pine-apple, pigeon pea, maize, millet, 
cacao, cashew oe Pie sugar cane, butter and tallow tree, 
tamarind, fig-tree, hog-plum, country plum, country grapes, 
sorrel, *“ caleelo = epe ach) mammee apple, cainito, bumelia, 
and icaco or pige lum, (from the West Indies), country 
ica 
cherries, bread fruit, vem otk cola, castor oil, “ cassia of the 
cane,” indigo, cotton, silk c 
“Some account of the D and introduced fruits of Sierra 
Leone" was published by Mr. Joseph Sabine, F.R.S., from 
information obtained from Mr. George Don, A.L.S., in the 
Transactions of the Horticultural Society (vol. v. , 1824, pp. 439- 
466). This gives a very uU wid account of the principal 
plants yielding edible fruits in West Africa, with 
excellent ced plate of the Negro Peach (Sarcocephalus 
esculent tus). There are also notes on the Butter and Tallow vom 
Serena ENG and the Kola (Cola acuminata). Of t 
common pine-apples, even in 1824, it is stated that “they are s 
abundant in the woods as to obstruct the passage through them 
every direction ; they grow vigorously and bear fruit abundantly.” 
The other - fruits already introduced and — in Sierra 
pee in 24 were bananas, uae 8, cocoa-nuts, papaw, 
oranges, lemons, limes, cashew, rose-apple, tamarind, melons, and 
tomatos. 
A small but interesting collection of the economic plants from 
Sierra Leone was presented to Kew by Mr. G. H. Garrett, a 
travelling commissioner, in 1891. In 1892 Mr. G. F. Scott- 
Elliot, F.L.S., who was attached as botanist to the Delimitation 
Commission of the Anglo-French frontier, forwarded to Kew 
500 species of dried benc in excellent condition, and also seeds 
of various kinds (K. B., 1892, p. 72). In the following Jon (1893) 
Mr. Scott-Elliot and Miss Catharine A. Raisin prepared Reports 
on the Botany and Geology of Sierra Leone (Colonial Reports, 
ACETUM No. 3, Sierra Leone, 1893. See also K. B., 1893, 
p. 167-169). "To the former is attached a useful list and index of 
native nam 
“The | Botanical results of the Sierra Leone Boundary Com- 
ission " formed the subject of a paper contributed by Mr. Scott- 
Elliot to the Linnean Society (Journ. Linn. Soc. xxx., pp. 64- 
Plants supposed to belong toa species of Coffea raised from 
seeds collected by Mr. Scott-Elliot in Sierra Leone were distributed 
from Kew in 1893. On further examination, these plants having 
developed spines, which Cofea never has, were believed to belong 
either to saat of Randia or Canthium (K. B., 
One of th interesting of the economic plant 
ce = the apra or pet coffee ( Capea. kee ylla) 
which, though discovered about a century ago by / 
not e be until 1834, and was AS introduced into this Fin eho 
until sixty years afterwards (1894). js was figured in the 
Botanical Magazine (t. 7475), and described more recently in the 
Kew Bulletin (1896, pp. 189-191). This coffee has been widely 
distributed from Kew. It has lately flowered in the West Indies, 
and is there regarded as likely to prove ope for cultivation in 
- lowlands where the Arabian coffee will not gro 
ano her promising economie plant in Sierra [oaie] is the native 
