146 



October ; subject, during growth, to injury by white ants, and its 

 leaves to attacks by insects of the genus Batocera (Dalziel, I.e.). 



Ref.— U Melia Azedarach," in Diet. Econ. Prod. India, Watt, v. 

 pt. 1, 1891, pp. 221-223.—" Melia Azedarach," in The American 

 Woods, Hough, v. No. 105, pp. 28-29, with sections— transverse, 

 radial, and tangential — of the wood (published by the Author, 

 Lowville, New York, 1894).— ' k Melia Azedarach," in Manual of 

 Indian Timbers, Gamble, pp. 144-145 (Sampson, Low, Marston & 

 Co., Ltd., London, 1902). — " Melia Azedarach on Lilas des Falls," 

 in PI. Util. Congo, Art. vii. pp. 42-49. — " A Propos du Melia Aze- 

 darach," I.e. Art. xxx. pp. 486-488. — " Melia Azedarach," in Der 

 Tropenpflanzer, 1904, pp. 578-580. 



Guarea Thompsonii, Sprague & Hutchinson, in Kew Bull. 1906, 

 p. 245. 



A tree. Branchlets glabrous below, minutely puberulous above, 

 J in. in diameter or more. Leaves pinnate, 1^ ft. long or more, 

 glabrous ; leaflets shortly stalked, oblong or obovate oblong, more 

 rarely oblanceolate, 4-8 in. long, 2-3 in. broad, obtuse or very 

 shortly acuminate at the apex, rounded or obtusely cuneate at the 

 base, chartaceous ; veins and veinlets inconspicuous on the upper 

 surface, slightly raised on the lower ; lateral nerves 11-14 on each 

 side of the midrib. Panicles axillary, borne several together 

 towards the ends of the branchlets, pyramidal, 6 in. to 1 ft. long ; 

 rhachis puberulous. Flowers over ^ in. long. Calyx cupular, 

 hardly toothed. Petals 5 or 6, imbricate, oblong. Staminal tube 

 slightly swollen about the middle, terminated by 10-15 small 

 lobes ; anthers 10-15, inserted inside the tube a little below its 

 apex. Ovary oblong, hairy, 4-5-celled, ovules 2 in each cell ; 

 style glabrous ; stigma peltate. 



Benin. 



Cedar ; Benin Mahogany. 



Wood exported to Europe under the trade names given above. 



The species of Guarea are found in the moist evergreen forests 

 (Thompson, Col. Rep. Misc. No. 51, 1908, p. 24). 



TKICHILIA, P. Brown. 



Trichilia emetica, Vahl. ; Fl. Trop. Afr. I. p. 335. 



III. — Bertoloni, Misc. Bot. ix. t. 2 (Mafureira oleifera) ; Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. xxix. t. 20 ; Wood, Nat. PI. i. t. 80 ; Sim, For. Fl. 

 Cape Col. t, 27 ; Sim, For. Fl. Port. E. Afr. 1. 15. 



Vernac. names. — Mafoureira ; Baf ureira (Portuguese Mozam- 

 bique, Ficalho) ; Tsikiri (Mozambique, Johnson) ; Elcaja (Arabia, 

 Ficalho) ; Guimbi (Engoche, Tala Mngongo, Ficalho) ; Mahura 

 (Kalahari, S.E. Africa, Burchell) ; Mafura (Inhambane, Kirk) ; 

 Pao Cachique (Golungo Alto, Welwitsch) ; Motsakiri (S.W. Trop. 

 Africa, Baines) ; Esschenhout (Dutch, in Pondoland and Natal, 

 Sim) ; Um-Kuhlu (Kafir, Sim, Wood). — Cape Mahogany ; Manubi 

 Mahogany ; Natal Mahogany. 



Kontagora, Borgu, N. Nigeria, and widely distributed in Tropical 

 Africa, from Senegambia through Abyssinia to Mozambique. 



