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plant raised at Kew in 1894 flowered in 1907, when about 15 ft. 

 high (Kew Bull. 1909, p. 342). A young tree has also flowered in 

 Dominica (Rep. Bot. St. Dominica, 1907-08, p. 2). 



Ref. — " Baikiaea insignis" in Kew Bull. 1909, p. 342. Agric. 



News, Barbados, 1909, p. 405. Baikiaea insignis, Harms, in 



Notizblatt, App. xxi. No. 2, 1911, pp. 51-54. 



Detarium, Juss. 



Detarium seuegalense, Gmelin ; Fl. Trop. Afr. II. p. 313. 



III. — Guillem. Perr. Rich. Fl. Senegamb. t. 59 (D. inicrocarpum) ; 

 Ralph, Ic. Carp. t. 11. p. 5 ; Heckel & Schlagdenhauffen, Journ. 

 Pharm. et de Chimie, 1890, (Reprint) ft. 1-7 ; Engl. & Prantl, 

 Pflan. iii. pt. 3, f. 77 D-F ; Volkens, Notizblatt, App. xxii. No. 1, 

 1909, p. 13, f. 5 ; Engler & Drude, Veg. Erde, ix. f . 662 (after 

 Volkens). 



Vernac. names. — Tawra (Hausa, Barter) ; Ogbogbo (N. Nigeria, 

 Dudgeon) ; Beligbele (Sierra Leone, Scott Elliot) ; Dita (Gambia, 

 Brown Lester) ; Dattock (Gambia, O'Connor, Moloney) ; [Detarr 

 (Yoloff) ; Manbode (Mandingo) Moloney'] ; Bediwonua (Gold Coast, 

 Evans). — Tallow Tree. 



Oshun River Reserve ; Nupe ; Zungeru ; Kabba ; Banks of Guarara, 

 N. Nigeria ; and widely distributed in W. Africa. 



Fruit edible (Barter & Scott Elliot, Herb. Kew), although there are 

 two varieties — the edible one sweet, and a bitter variety which is 

 regarded as poisonous. The mealy mesocarp, when cooked, is not 

 unpleasant, with a slight flavour of gingerbread ; beaten into a pulp 

 it is made into a kind of comfit. The kernel has at times the odour 

 of Tonquin bean, and a taste of hydrocyanic acid (Barter Mus. Kew). 

 According to Dr. Baikie the seeds are beaten into a cake for feeding 

 cattle in Nupe (Moloney, For. W. Afr. p. 336). 



The young shoots boiled and mixed with " faringi " are used for 

 the cure of fever in Sierra Leone (Scott Elliot, Herb. Kew). 



The wood, has been exported from Nigeria to Liverpool under the 

 name of " African Mahogany " (Thompson, Col. Rep. Misc. No. 51, 

 1908, p. 26) ; suitable for naval construction, carpentry work and 

 fancy turning (Moloney, I.e.) 



It forms a magnificent and lofty tree in S. Nigeria, confined to the 

 evergreen forests and is somewhat uncommon (Thompson, I.e.) ; a 

 small tree in dry rocky soil Nupe and common on hills near Jebba 

 (Barter, Herb. Kew) ; growing on the roadside near Kabba (Elliott, 

 I.e.) and common in open bush, Zungeru (Dalziel, I.e.), extremely 

 abundant in localities where the subsoil is rocky, but does not attain 

 very large dimensions, Gold Coast ; grows freely from seed (Thomp- 

 son, Col. Rep. Misc. No. ij6, 1910, p. 88). 



Ref. — "Detarium senegalense, in Les Vegetaux Utiles de L'Afrique 

 Trop. Franc. Chevalier, Perrot et Gerard, iii. pp. 97-102 (Challamel, 



Paris, 1907. " Sur les deux varietes de Detarium senegalense" 



Heckel & Schlagdenhauffen, in Journ. de Pharmacie et de Chimie 

 1890, (Reprint) pp. 1-16 (Marpon & Flammarion, Paris, 1890). 



COPAIFERA, Linn. 



Copaifera Guibourtiana, Benth. ; Fl. Trop. Afr. II. p. 314. 

 III. — Pharm. Journ. [1] xvi. 1857, p. 370 (Guibourtia copaUi/srae), 

 . Vernac. name. — Kobo (Sierra Leone, Moloney). 



