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upright stick placed in the ground of the apartment ; they afford 
a brilHant Mght, and the resin, when burning, emits a grateful 
odour. 
The Odica, from which they make a kind of chocolate, is a very ~ 
high and large tree, bearing an acuminate shining leaf. The nuts, 
which are white, are contained in a round pod with a bulb at the 
end, twice as large as a man's fist, green without, and yellow 
within ; the parts surrounding the nuts are squeezed into water, 
which they sweeten like honey. The kernels are strung and smoke 
dried, and then beat in water into large masses, having the appear- 
ance of coarse chocolate, but the flavour of a rank gross gravy. 
It might be more palatable otherwise prepared. 
The vegetable butter (which certainly belongs to the natural 
order Sapotece) brought to the Ashantee mark^, is here well known 
by the name of Onoongoo : it is a large tree, and the nuts are 
enclosed in a round red pod, containing from four to six : the 
flower is also red, from description. My servant, a native of 
Booroom, called the tree Kirrimkoon, and the butter Incoom ; the 
Ashantees call the latter Sarradee; in Mallowa the tree is called 
Timkeea. The nut is first boiled, and the oil or butter afterwards 
expressed ; in Booroom and Mallowa it is skimmed from the sur- 
face. It tasted quite as good as fresh butter before any salt is 
added, and we relished the meat fried in it exceedingly. Being 
the rainy season I could neither get a sight of the flower or the pod 
of this or the odica, but 1 procured the nuts and produce of both. 
The curious may compare this butter with the specimen of the 
Ashantee grease. Before I understood them to be distinct trees, I 
concluded the odica and the butter both to be the produce of the 
cacao-nut, but the butter answers closely to Mr. Park's description 
of the shea-tolu, though the tree did not resemble the American oak. 
The Kolla nut grows on one of those trees which are supposed 
