239 



Les Veg. Utiles de L'Afrique Trop. Fran?, fasc. iii. " Recherches but 

 les bois de differentes especes de Legumineuses Africains," Chevalier, 

 Perrot et Gerard, pp. 88-90 "Ebony from the East Africa Pro- 

 tectorate," in Bull. Imp. Inst. vii. 1909, pp. 269-270. 



PTEROCARPUS, Linn. 



Pterocarpus erinaceus, Poir. ; Fl. Trop. Afr. II. p. 239. 



///.—Lam. Encycl. t. 602, f. 4 ; Gray, Western Africa, t. D (P. 

 africanus) ; Guillem, Perr. Rich. Fl. Senegamb. t. 54 ; Woodville, 

 Med. Bot. v. t. 12 ; Ralph, Ic. Carp. t. 28, f. 9 (Echinodiscus erinaceus); 

 Vidal, Fl. For. Filip. t. 40 B ; Engl. & Prantl, Pflan. iii. pt. 3, f. 126 

 J (Pod J size) ; Ann. Inst. Col. Marseille, 1902, p. 97, f. 5 (tree in 

 French Soudan) ; Sim. For. Fl. and For. Res. Port. E. Afr. t. 59. 



Vernac. names. — Apepe (Oloke-Meji, Punch) Apepe or Ara 

 (S. Nigeria, Foster) ; Ado Isehin (Lagos, Rowland) ; Magiji (Ilausa, 

 Dudgeon) ; Zanchi (Zungeru, Elliott) ; Kaino (Mandingo, Dudgeon) ; 

 Ngillasonde or Mutete (Pungo Andongo, Welwitsch) ; Mirahondi or 

 Munhaneca (Huilla, Welwitsch) ; Ibel (Pahoin, De Wildeman) ; 

 Onigo (Gaboon, De Wildeman) ; N'Goula (Gaboon, Chevalier) ; Kari 

 (W. xlfrica, Gray) ; [Thondo (Ironga, Lorenco Marques) ; Imbilo 

 (Echuabo, Quelimane) ; Moqombire-bire (Swahili) ; Shuiaan (Swazi), 



Sim]. African Rosewood ; West African Rosewood ; Senegal 



Rosewood ; Gambian Rosewood ; Santal Rouge d'Afrique ; African 

 Kino ; Gambian Kino. 



Lagos ; Oloke-Meji ; Nupe ; Zaria, Zungeru ; Bassa ; Borgu and 

 widely distributed in Tropical Africa. 



The wood is very valuable, used in cabinet work, and turnery 

 (De Wildeman, PI. Util. Congo, Art. xxvi. (1904) pp. 371, 378 ; 

 Moloney, For. W. Afr. p. 324 ; Spon's Encycl. p. 1668 ; Cat. Prod. 

 Col. Frany. Exp. Univ. 1867, p. 44), by the natives in Angola for 

 making war clubs (Hiern. Cat. Welw. Afr. PI. i. p. 280) ; on the East 

 Coast of Africa for paddles, oars, &c. ; also suitable for naval 

 construction, planking, &c. (Moloney, I.e.) ; well adapted to various 

 domestic uses, agricultural implements, &c. (Hiern, I.e.), and suitable 

 for every local purpose (Sim, For. Fl. & For. Res. Port. E. Afr. p. 118). 



It is very durable, hard and fine-grained, dark red in colour ; 

 weighs 50 to 55 lbs. per cubic foot (Sim, I.e.). A specimen in the 

 Kew Museum has a specific gravity of 0*9181 = 57 lbs. per cubic foot. 

 Sim (I.e.) states that the wood is ant-proof, not liable to warp or crack. 



A " Gum Kino " is obtained from this tree, obtained by making 

 incisions in the wood ; the juice at first is of a very pale red colour 

 and very liquid, but it soon coagulates, turning to a deep blood-red 

 colour (Gray, West. Africa, p. 396, P. africanus). In Angola the 

 resin is called " Sangue do Drago " (Hiern. Cat. Welw. Afr. PI. i. 

 p. 280) ; and is imported into Portugal under this name (Heckel, 

 Ann. Inst. Col. Marseille, vi. 1899, p. 85), also into England in small 

 quantities for medicinal purposes — used as an astringent. African 

 Kino is the same in solubility and chemical characters as that of Indian 

 Kino (P. Marsupium) (Fllickiger & Hanbury, Pharmacog. p. 198), 

 officially recognized in the British Pharmacopoeia. 



The kino is used by the natives of Angola in the treatment of 

 wounds (Hiern, I.e.) ; as an astringent medicine, and for various 

 medicinal purposes (Moloney, I.e.) (Heckel, I.e.) ; it is one of the 

 few important products of Bassa (Col. Rep. Ann. No. 516, J 907 (for 

 1905-06) p. 84\ 



