438 MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
K. Butter-tree^ ce, che or shea.^ — Mungo Park describes 
this tree under the latter name of shea and shea- 
toulou. M. CailH^ met with it all over Senegambia 
as far as Djenne. The ned4 and the che are the most 
common trees. Samples of this vegetable butter were 
sent to France by M. de Beaufort^ and M. Vauquelin 
was commissioned by the Academy of Sciences^ to 
analyse it. This tree would be a most valuable ac- 
quisition in our colonies. 
We owe to M. Cailli^ the knowledge of a second 
vegetable butter called taman-toulou, preferable, he 
thinks, to the former. It is derived from a second 
tree, which appears to be different. Its name, or that 
of the fruit, is taman. The word toulou means butter 
or a fat substance in Mandingo. The oil palm-tree 
renders nearly the same service to the inhabitants 
as the foregoing, 
L. Colat-nut.^ThQ fruit known to Europeans by this 
name is very common in the interior of Africa, as 
well as on the banks of the Rio-Nunez. The Man- 
dingo name is ourou. According to M. Caillie this 
is the same fruit with that called gour by Major 
Denham : but, in reading the work entitled Narra- 
tive of Travels and Discoveries in Northern and Cen- 
tral Africa, he, London, 1826, I found this name 
neither in the description, nor in the annotations 
added to this important work by the learned botanist,^ 
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