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exterior rotundate, 4 lin. diameter, interior broadly elliptic, 5 J lin. 

 long, 2^ lin. broad ; normal petals 3, oblong orbicular, reduced petals 

 2, minute, lanceolate, filaments densely pubescent in the lower half. 

 Pod oblong falcate, compressed, 2-J in. long, 1£ in. broad. Seed 

 solitary, attached by a long f unicle, laterally near the apex of the 

 pod. 



111. — Thompson, Col. Rep. Misc. No. 66, 1910, t. 15 (Cyanothyrsus 

 Ogea). 



Vernac. names.— Ogea (Lagos Milleri) ; Ahedua or Ehyedua;? (Twi, 

 Gold Coast, Thompson, I.e. p. 196) ; Asiadua ? (Gold Coast ; Thomp- 

 son). 



Lagos (Millen, No. 191, Herb. Kew). 



Furnishes Ogea Copal from Ijebu, Lagos ; plentiful in the interior 

 (Millen I.e.). 



Daniellia Punchii, Grail) in Kew Bull. 1912, ined. 



Large tree. Branchlets and leaf rachis straw-coloured. Leaflets 

 elliptic-oblong, acuminate, obliquely rounded at the base, 5-5^ in. 

 long, 2^ to almost %\ in. broad, glabrous on both surfaces, main nerves 

 about 7 on each side, conspicuous above, prominent beneath ; petiolule 

 short. Branches of inflorescence rufo-tomentellous. 



Resembling D. oblonga in flowers, but leaflets much larger. 



Vernac. name. — Ujia (Ibadan, Punch). 



Ibadan Forest Reserve (Punch, No. 115, Herb. Kew). 



Yields a resin, the native name signifying " large tree yielding 

 resin" (I.e.). 



Daniellia similis, Craib in Kew Bull. 1912, ined. 



All parts, except the inflorescence, glabrous. Leaflets in 8 pairs, 

 oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, obliquely and broadly cuneate 

 at the base, 2^-4 in. long, |-1^ in. broad, glabrous on both surfaces, 

 shining above, main nerves numerous sub-prominent on both sur- 

 faces. Branches of inflorescence tomentellous. 



Readily distinguished from D. Ogea by its more numerous nerves 

 which are not so prominent. 



Represented in the Kew Herbarium by a specimen from the Gold 

 Coast only (Dudgeon, No. 5 ; communicated by the Imperial Institute, 

 March, 1909). 



Vernac. names.— Ogea (Gold Coast, Dudgeon). — Gold Coast Gum 

 Copal tree. 



The " Gum Copal " of the Gold Coast is described as a purely forest 

 product found chiefly in Ashanti— an exudation from wounds on the 

 stems, roots, and branches of aged trees, which on exposure becomes 

 hard and brittle, and when buried in the soil for a long time semi- 

 fossilised (Ann. Rep. Agric. Gold Coast, 1909 (for 1908) p. 11). 



The exports were valued in 1906 at £2216, and in 1907 at £5134 ; 

 in 1908 it was valued at 51s. 6d. to 71s. 4<7. per cwt. (Col. Rep. 

 Misc. No. 63, 1909, p. 171, under Gold Coast or Accra Copal, Cyano- 

 thyrsus Ogea). 



The flowers of D. caudata, D. Fosteri, D. Punchii, and D. similis 

 are similar in detail of structure to those of D. Ogea and D. oblonga. 



Daniellia thurifera, Benn. non Oliver. 



Leaflets about 7 pairs, oblong, acuminate, obliquely cuneate to 

 truncate at the base, 4^ to 8 in. long, 3 in. broad, chartaceons glabrous, 

 main nerves numerous, conspicuous on both surfaces, petiolules 



