300 



Commerce, Stone, pp. 7-1-75. " Albizzia Lebbek," in Les Vegetaux 



Utiles de L'Afrique Trop. Franc. Chevalier, Perrot et Gerard, iii. 

 pp. 70-72. 



Albizzia rhombifolia, Benth. ; Fl. Trop. Afr. II. p. 358. 



Vernac. names. — Ayinre ogo or Ayinre Langara (Benin, Thompson) ; 

 Bekili (Golo, Sudan, Broun) ; Pranpran (Ivory Coast, Chevalier). 



W. Africa from Senegambia to Nigeria, known also from the Nile 

 region. 



A good timber used for making boats, Golo (Broun, Herb. Kew) ; 

 used for firewood in S. Nigeria (Thompson, List of For. Trees, 

 S. Nigeria, 1910, p. 4) ; suitable for joinery and carpentry work ; 

 density 0-589-0-713 (Chevalier, Les PI. Veg. Util. L'Afriq. Trop. 

 Franc. Fasc. v. 1909, pp. £77, 281). 



Occurs in the tropical rain forests of S. Nigeria and the Gold Coast 

 (Col. Rep. Misc. No. 66, 1910, p. 175). 



PlTHECOLOBIUM, Mart. 



Pithecolobium altissimum, Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. II. p. 364. 



Aboh ; Niger ; Cameroons. 



A tree 10-50 ft. high on the banks of the Nun [Niger] river, 

 (Mann, Herb. Kew). 



Pods used for dyeing and making ink, Abo (Barter, Mus. Kew). 



The wood is hard and close grained, specific gravity 0*7741 = 48 lbs. 

 per cubic foot, white when freshly cut, darkening on exposure to 

 a rich brown colour, bark greyish-brown, thin (1 lin.), finely 

 striated on the inner surface, the lines showing through in places on 

 the outside, where the rough outer bark peels off. 



Ref. — " Pithecolobium altissimum" in Einige Nutzholzer Kameruns, 

 Harms, Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin, App. xxi. No. 2, 1911, pp. 14-15. 



Enterolobium, Mart. 



Enterolobium Saman, Prain, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, lxvi. p. 252. 



[Pithecolobium Saman, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. iii. 

 p. 216.] 



A large tree, up to 60 ft. high ; branches spreading. Leaves 

 pinnate, 4-6 in. long, pubescent ; Pinnae 2-6 pairs, 2-3 in. long ; 

 leaflets 2-8 pairs, ovate-oblong or sub-orbiculate, somewhat coriaceous, 

 pubescent on the underside, the larger ones 1| in. long. Flowers in 

 dense heads ; Calyx funnel-shaped ; Corolla funnel-shaped, pink, 

 silky -villose. Pods about 7 in. long, | in. wide, 2 lin. thick, firm, 

 straight, indehiscent, snapping readily between each seed, mesocarp 

 spongy, hardening as the pod dries. Seeds about 20 in each pod ; 

 hard, shining, dark brown, with an areole well defined on both sides, 

 ellipsoidal, major axis \ in., minor axes \ in. and §- in. 



III. — Jacq. Fragm. Bot. t. 9 {Mimosa Saman) ; Ralph, Ic. Carp. t. 

 2, f. 4 ; Preuss, Exped. Cent, und Siidamer. p. 341 (habit) ; Trop. 

 Agric. Ceylon, 1905, p. 161 {Inga Saman, habit, well grown) ; 

 p. 162, (habit, effects of bad treatment) ; West India Comm. Circ. 

 xx. 1905, p. 148 (habit, of branching) ; Gard. Chron. 3rd Sept. 1910, 

 p. 176, f. 69 ; Queensland Agric. Journ. xxv. 1910, t. 20 (habit), 

 p. 244 (from an old engraving) ; Macmillan, Trop. Gard. PI. pp. 

 371, 372 (habit). 



Vernac. names.— Tamia-caspi (Peru, Spruce) ; Zamang (Venezuela, 

 Sajford). — Deers Vanilla (Peru, Spruce), Saman, Guango, Rain Tree, 

 Monkey Pod. 



