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panicle. Flowers many in each capitulum, tomentose, the lower 

 receptacle fusiform, the upper funnel-shaped. Fruits small, pubes- 

 cent, wings square at the top, tapering at the base, body of fruit very 

 narrow, projecting at the top beyond the wings. 



III.— Engl. Monogr. Afr. Pflan. Gombretaceae (1899) t. 20d. 



Vernac. name. — Ogan (Lagos, MacGregor). 



Oloke Meji (Foster, No. 130, Herb. Kew) ; Lagos (MacGregor, No. 

 209, Herb. Kew) ; Abeokuta (Irving, No. 81, Herb. Kew). 



Used medicinally in Lagos (MacGregor, I.e.). 



QUISQUA.LIS, Linn. 



Quisqualis indica, Linn. : Fl. Trop. Afr. II. p. 435. 



III. — Pal. de Beauv, Fl. Ow. Ben. i. t. 35 ( Q. ebracteata) ; Bot. 

 Mag. t, 2033 ; Bot. Reg. (1820-21), t. 492 ; Geel, Sert. Bot, iv. ; Rchb. 

 Icon. Bot. Exot. t. 233 ; Maund, Bot, Anist. ii. t. 73 ; Wight, Illust, 

 t. 92 ; Spach Suites (Hist. Nat. des Vegetaux) t, 32, f. 1 ; Rev. Hort. 

 1858, f . 38 ; Vidal, Fl. For. Filip. t: 48 D (fl. & fr.) ; Engl. Monogr. 

 Afr. Pflan. Gombretaceae (1900) p. 6, f . 3. 



Vernac names. — Ogan funfum (Lagos, Foster) ; Bamtaki (Hausa, 

 Engler) ; She-Keun-tsze (China, Hanbury). 



The Rangoon creeper. 



Lagos ; Abeokuta ; Old Calabar ; Lokoja ; Guarara River. Found 

 also in the Cameroons and Gaboon. Cultivated throughout India. 



Seeds used as an anthelmintic in the Moluccas and roasted, as a 

 cure for diarrhoea in China, and a decoction of the leaves for 

 flatulency (Diet. Econ. Prod. India). 



The wood is soft, porous and of little or no value. A portion of 

 stem in the Museum at Kew, grown in the Botanic Gardens, Calcutta, 

 is only 5 in. in diameter, although described as being 42 years old. 



MYRTACEAE. 



Eucalyptus, L'Her. 



Trees, native of Australia, Tasmania, and to a smaller extent of 

 New Guinea and the Indian Archipelago. Cultivated in most of our 

 Colonial Dependencies in the Tropics, in the United States, Cali- 

 fornia, Algeria and other countries bordering the Mediterranean. 



Various species have been tried in the Botanic Stations of 

 Nigeria as also in other parts of W. Africa since about 1874, when 

 seeds were sent out from Kew. Further consignments of seed were 

 sent out in 1879 to Lagos, the Gold Coast, Sierra Leone and the 

 Gambia, including the species Globulus, amygdalina, obliqua, 

 luxurians, and some Queensland species. In 1881 Moloney reported 

 that some of the plants raised from this collection in Lagos were 

 then 23 ft. high, and 2^ in. in diameter, and Rowland in July of the 

 same year records E. acmenoides, E. resinifera, and E. Baileyana as 

 doing remarkably well in Lagos {see Mem. on the Attempts to Culti- 

 vate the Eucalyptus in W. Afr. Colonies, in Bot. Ent. in W. Africa, 

 1889-1901, p. 128 ; Moloney, For. W. Afr. pp. 224-230.) 



Eucalyptus citriodora was favourably mentioned by McNair at 

 Ebute Metta in 1889, a number of plants having been raised from 

 seeds sent out from Kew in 1888 (Report, Bot. St. Ebute Metta, 

 30th June, 1888-1889, though Millen (Report, 31st Dec. 1891) 

 records but one plant of this species in a permanent place there in 

 1891. Two young trees were doing well in the Botanic Garden at 



