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cup-shaped ; disc hairy. Fruit 2-winged, shortly stalked, 2-J- in. 

 long, | in. broad, slightly emarginate at the tip, slightly attenuate at 

 the base, covered with tomentum similar to that on the branches. 



III.— Engl. Monogr. Afr. Pflan. Combretaceae (1900) t. 5, f. b. 



Vernac. name. — Idi (Lagos, Foster) ; Idi (Yoruba, Thompson). 



Lagos (Foster, No. 29, 1906, Herb. Kew). 



The timber is used for canoes (Bot. Ent. in W. Afr. 1889-1901, 

 p. 66, "Idi") and for making house posts; the bark medicinally, 

 and the roots medicinally, and as " chew sticks "in S. Nigeria 

 (Thompson, List of For. Trees, S. Nig. 1910, p. 10). 



Terminalia sp. 



Vernac. names. — Opepe or Ep^pe (Yoruba, Punch). — Brimstone 

 Wood. 



Ibadan Forest Reserve (Punch, No. 122, 1901, Herb. Kew). 



Used as planks and for canoes ; a tree likely to furnish timber 

 suitable for the home markets (Kew Bull. 1908, p. 193). 



Common in the mixed forests of the Central and Western Provinces 

 of S. Nigeria (I.e.). 



CONOCARPUS, Gaertn. 



Conocarpus erectus, Jacq. ; Fl. Trop. Afr. II. p. 417. 



III. — Jacq. Icon. Select. Stirp. Am. t. 52 ; Commelin, Hort. Med. 

 Amstel. PI. t. 115 ; Sloane, Voy. Jamaica, ii. t. 161, f. 2 ; Catesby, 

 Nat. Hist. Carolina, Florida, and Bahama Is. ii. t. 33, f. 1 ; Lam. 

 Encycl. t. 126 ; Desc. Ant. vi. t. 399 ; Nuttall, N. Amer. Sylva, i. t. 

 33 ; Sargent, Silva, N. America, v. t. 202 ; Ann. Inst. Col. Marseille, 

 ix. 1902, t. 2. 



Vernac. names. — Zaragova (B. Honduras, Bull. Imp. Inst. 1907, 

 p. 345). — Button Wood, Manglier gris. 



Bonny River, and throughout the swamp regions of West Africa. 

 Common in the swampy coasts of Tropical America. 



The bark (from British Honduras) has been found to contain 18*7 

 per cent, of tannin, and though too poor for export it is excellent 

 material for tanning purposes locally, and yields a better leather than 

 the red mangrove (Rhizophora Mangle) (Bull. Imp. Inst. I.e.). 



The wood is useful for posts and piles, said to be lasting both in 

 and out of the ground and in salt water (West Indian Bull. ix. 1909, 

 p. 301) ; weight 62 lbs. per cubic foot (Curtiss, Mus. Kew). Catesby 

 (I.e. p. 33) states that, " being small I know of no meckanik use they 

 are put to, but for burning it is esteemed the best wood in these 

 latitudes " (Carolina, Florida, Bahama Is. &c). 



Anogeissus, Wall. 



Anogeissus leiocarpus, Guilt, et Perr. ; Fl. Trop. Afr. II. p. 418. 



III. — Guillem. Perr. Rich. Fl. Senegamb. t. 65 ; Tropenpfl. 

 (Beihefte), Oct. 1906, p. 255 (habit) ; Engl. & Drude, Veg. Erde, ix. 

 t. 43 (habit, from Tropenpfl. I.e.). 



Vernac names. — Ayin (Yoruba, Thompson, Foster) ; Marike 

 (Hausa, Dalziel) ; Kojoli (Fufulde, Dalziel) ; Murke (Gorgoram, 

 Elliott) ; Murke (Guarara River, Elliott) ; Echeche (Togo, Tropenpfl. 

 I.e.) ; Silug or Sahaba (Arabic, Muriel) ; Khai (Hameg, Muriel). — 

 Chewstick. 



Lagos, Oloke Meji, Zungeru, Yola. Widely distributed in West 

 Africa, extending to Abyssinia and Central Africa. 



