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of the coast, tlioiigli of tliesc the greater part are yet un- published.

Many of the Trees, thePahus, and several other remark- .ic? able plants, which characterise the landscape, as Adansonia, BombcLv pentcnidricm, AiithoclcUta^ MamiKja of the natives (the genus related to Cecro})ia,) Elms Galncon^ls, Uajjlua vlnifera and Pandanm Candrlahnun, appear to be very fjeneral alouG: the whole extent of coast.

Sterculia acuminata} the seed of which is the Cola, men- tioned in the earliest accounts of Congo, exists, and is equally valued, in Guinea and Sierra Leone, and, what is remarkable, has the same name in every part of the west coast.

The Ordeal Tree noticed in Professor Smithes journal under the name of Cassa, and in Captain Tuckey's narra- tive erroneously called a species of Cassia, if not absolutely the same plant as the Bed Waler Tree of Sierra Leone,^ and as it is said also of the Gold Coast, belongs at least to the same o-enus.

A species of the Cream Fruit, mentioned by Professor Afzelius,^ remarkable in affording a wholesome and pleasant saccharine fluid, used by the natives of Sierra Leone even to quench their thirst, though the plant belongs to Apoci- nea3, a family so generally deleterious, Avas also met with.

The Sarcocej^halus of the same author,^ which is ])roba- bly what he has noticed under the name of the country-tig of Sierra Leone,^ was found, and seems to be not uncom- mon, on the banks of the Congo.

Anona Senegal eiisis, whose fruit, though smaller than that of the cultivated species of the genus, has, according to Mr. Lockhart, a flavour superior to any of them, was everywhere observed, especially al)ove Embomma, and appears to be a very general plant along the whole extent of coast.

And C/rrj/sobalanus Icaco, or a species very nearly I'elated to it, which is equally common from Senegal to

^ /> Beauvois. Flore cVOware, 1, jt. 41, /. 24.

- Winterbotiom's Sirrra IjCohc, 1, p. 129.

^ Sierra Leone Report for 1794, ^j. 173, n. 47.

^ In Herb. Banks. ' Op. cit. p. 171, «. 33.

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