TREES OF SIERRA LEONE p. S. S AV ILL B.So. JED FOX B.Sc., MF
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<strong>TREES</strong> <strong>OF</strong> <strong>SIERRA</strong> <strong>LEONE</strong><br />
by<br />
p. S. S A V <strong>ILL</strong> B.<strong>So</strong>.<br />
J. E. D. <strong>FOX</strong> B.<strong>Sc</strong>., M. F.
CONTENTS Page<br />
INTRODUCTION • • ·. ·. 1<br />
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 3<br />
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CHAPl'ER I 4<br />
Geography 4<br />
Topography 4<br />
Drainage ·. ·. ·. ·. ·. 4<br />
Geology ·. ·. ·.<br />
5<br />
<strong>So</strong>ils ·. ·. 5<br />
Climate 5<br />
Population 7<br />
CHAPl'ER II. Vegetation 8<br />
CHAPl'ER Ill. Exploitation and Regeneration 15<br />
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CHAPl'ER IV. Keys 17<br />
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CHAPl'ER V. Description of families in alphabetical order<br />
Anacardiaceae<br />
*Annonaceae<br />
36<br />
40<br />
Apocynaceae ·. ·. 46<br />
·. ·. ·. ·.<br />
Avicenniaceae 51<br />
• Bignoniaceae 52<br />
Bombacaceae ·. ·. • • ·. ·. ·. 55<br />
* Boraginaceae ·. ·.<br />
59<br />
Burseraceae • •<br />
•<br />
·. 61<br />
Caesalpiniaceae • • ·. ·.<br />
64<br />
Capparidaceae ·. ·. ·. ·. ·. 97<br />
Chailletiaceae ·.<br />
98<br />
* Combretaceae 99<br />
Ebenaceae ·. ·. ·. ·.<br />
105<br />
Erythroxylaceae 108<br />
Euphorbiaceae ·. ·.<br />
110<br />
Flacourtiaceae ·.<br />
128<br />
• Guttiferae ·. ·. 130<br />
Humiriaceae 136<br />
Hypericaceae ·. 138<br />
Icacinaceae 140<br />
Irvingiaceae 141<br />
Ixonanthaceae 144<br />
Lauraceae ·. ·"<br />
·. 145<br />
Lecythidaceae 146<br />
Loganiaceae 148<br />
Medusandraceae 150<br />
Melastomataceae ·. 151<br />
* Meliaceae 152<br />
Melianthaceae 164<br />
* Mimosaceae 165<br />
Moraceae 186<br />
Myristioaeeae ·.<br />
194<br />
Myrtaceae ·. ·. ·. 197<br />
Ochnaceae ·.<br />
198<br />
Octoknemataceae 201<br />
Olacaceae ·. ·. ·. ·. 202<br />
* Papilionaceae 205<br />
Passifloraceae ·.<br />
209<br />
• Rhamnaceae ·. ·. ·. ·. 210<br />
*Rhizophoraceae 212<br />
* Rosaceae ·. ·. ·. ·.<br />
215<br />
* Rubiaceae ·. ·. ·. ·. ·. ·. 221<br />
Rutaceae 229<br />
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CONTENTS Page<br />
Samydaceae 232<br />
Sapindaceae 233<br />
Sapotaceae 236<br />
<strong>Sc</strong>ytopetalaceae 247<br />
Simaroubaceae 248<br />
Sterculiaceae ·.<br />
251<br />
Tiliaceae •• 264<br />
Ulmaceae •• • • ·. .. 265<br />
Verbenaceae • • ·. ·.<br />
267<br />
Violaceae 268<br />
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·. ·.<br />
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• ·. ·. ·. 0 ·.<br />
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APPENDIX. Details of two enumeration surveys 269<br />
REFERENCES .. 272<br />
INDEXES <strong>OF</strong> VERNACULAR NAMES: 273<br />
Botanical-Vernacular o. ·. • • 273<br />
Mende •• ·. ·. • • 283<br />
Temne •• ·. 290<br />
Kisi 293<br />
Kono ·. ·. 296<br />
Koranko 299<br />
Sherbro ·. 301<br />
Loko 302<br />
Creole ·. .. • • 303<br />
·. ·.<br />
INDEX <strong>OF</strong> SCIENTIFIC, TRADE AND COMMON ENGLISH NAMES 304<br />
MAP IN REAR POCKET.<br />
• The accounts of families marked with an asterisk were prepared<br />
by J.E.D. Fox, the others were prepared by P.S. Savill.<br />
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INTRODUCTION<br />
The la.st publication to deal specifically with the flora of<br />
Sierra Leone was C.E. Lane Pool's "Trees, Shrubs, Herbs and<br />
Climbers of Sierra Leone". It was written fifty years ago and has<br />
been out of print for a long time. A growing need has been felt<br />
in recent years for a general handbook on the trees of the country<br />
for use by Forestry Division staff and for teaching purposes.<br />
Several West African countries have similar works containing much<br />
information relevant to Sierra Leone, but the country has its own<br />
particular forest flora not adequately described elsewhere; in<br />
addition some of the floras are in French, a language not widely<br />
understood in Sierra Leone. This book has been written in an<br />
attempt to provide an appreciable amount of information specifio<br />
to Sierra Leone.<br />
The field work which forms the basis for the book was undertaken<br />
between 1962 and 1966 when the authors were employed by the<br />
Sierra Leone Government as Forest Officers. This includes the<br />
field descriptions and observations on growth and silviculture, to<br />
which has been added such information as it was possible to obtain<br />
from Forestry Division records. Literature is quoted for most of<br />
the botanical descriptions, timber properties and a few of the<br />
local uses.<br />
<strong>ILL</strong>USTRATIONS<br />
The line drawings were made by J.E.D. Fox in the field from<br />
freshly collected material, run down with the keys in the Flora of<br />
West Tropical Africa, second edition. Photographs were taken with<br />
fine grained llford HP3 film.<br />
VERNACULAR AND TBADE NAMES<br />
Vernacular names are based mainly on F.C. Deighton's<br />
''Vernacular Botanical Vocabulary", the standard work on the<br />
subject in Sierra Leone. Deighton's lists of Mende, Kisi, Kono<br />
and Koranko names have been added to, and corrected to some<br />
extent. Creole, Temne, Sherbro and Loko names are also given but<br />
these are almost unchanged. Names of trees in the other languages<br />
spoken in Sierra Leone (Vai, Susu, Yalunka, Krim, Mandingo, FUla,<br />
Limba and Gola) are omitted as they have such limited application.<br />
The main productive forests lie in Mende country and this is the<br />
most important language for the forester. Notes on the pronounciation<br />
of characters used in the vernacular alphabets are given in<br />
the preface to Deighton's book.<br />
The trade names included are, with a few exceptions, the<br />
British Standard names prepared under the authority of the U.K.<br />
Timber Industry Standards Committee.<br />
ENUMERATIONS<br />
Frequencies of trees given for various forests are based on<br />
the results of enumeration surveys made since 1947. The data are<br />
presented as the number of stems per 100 acres for various girth<br />
classes so that comparisons between one forest and another can be<br />
made at a glance; the figures are rounded to the nearest whole<br />
number. The areas actually enumerated, from which these figures<br />
are produced are as follows:<br />
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Forest<br />
Acres<br />
enumerated<br />
Bojene Hills 128<br />
Colony 40<br />
Dodo Hills 715<br />
Gola North, East Wepe Block 262<br />
Lower Makpoi Block 100 •<br />
Golama North 189<br />
Kambui Hills, Gengelu Block 100 •<br />
Neaboi Block 100 •<br />
Plateau Block 634<br />
Waanje Block 100 •<br />
Lalay 50<br />
Malal Hills 80<br />
Nyagoi 66<br />
Tonkoli, A.S.F. Section 65<br />
Balea Section 127<br />
Falima Section 98<br />
Farewa Section 91<br />
Gbangbaria Section 317<br />
Kindea Section 96<br />
L.S.F. Section 121<br />
North Section 189<br />
North-West Section 110<br />
Worombaria Section 37<br />
• Details of 100 acres extracted from enumeration<br />
data of more extensive areas.<br />
In the text tables, the symbol •• mea.n.s that trees of<br />
the girth class in question were ignored in the enumeration;<br />
it should not be confUsed with the number 0 which indicates<br />
that no trees of that girth class were present in the area<br />
enumerated.<br />
NOMENCLACTURE AND BOTANICAL TERMS<br />
The botanical nomenclacture, with very few exceptions,<br />
follows that used in the second edition of the Flora of West<br />
Tropical Africa. Synonyms are given only where revisions in the<br />
names of important species have been made since its publication.<br />
Definitions of the botanical terms used in this book can be<br />
found in the glossary to the Flora of West Tropical Africa,<br />
volume 1, part 1, page 17.<br />
ABBREVIATIONS<br />
C.A.I. Current annual increment<br />
er Creole<br />
F.F.C .1. La Flore Forestiere de la Cote d'Ivoire<br />
F.W.T.A. Flora of West Tropical Africa.<br />
a.re. Hoppus cubic foot (= 1.27 true cubic feet)<br />
Ki Kisi<br />
Ko Kono<br />
Kor Koranko<br />
Lo Loko<br />
M.A.I. Mean annual increment<br />
Me Mende<br />
P.A.I. Periodic annual increment<br />
Sh Sherbro<br />
Te Temne<br />
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS<br />
The field work for this publication could not have been<br />
undertaken without a great deal of help from other people and for<br />
this we should like to record our thanks to those members of the<br />
Forestry Division Staff, servants and others in Sierra Leone who<br />
so willingly co-operated. They are too many to name individually<br />
but we should like to mention in particular our tree-spotter,<br />
Brima Musa, whose unrivalled knowledge of the forest proved<br />
invaluable, and S.K. Samai who collected and sent us herbarium<br />
material while we were working on the manuscript in the United<br />
Kingdom. We are indebted to the Chief Conservator of Forests,<br />
J. S. Sawyerr for his help and encouragement.<br />
For permission to quote from the Flora of West Tropical<br />
Africa, our thanks are due to the Director of the Royal Botanic<br />
Gardens, Kew and the Crown Agents.<br />
The Professor of Forestry, Oxford and the Director of the<br />
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew very kindly made available the<br />
faoilities of their libraries and herbaria; we are grateful for<br />
this and for the advice so freely given by their staffs.<br />
Thanks are also due to the Timber Research and Development<br />
Association for permission to quote from "Timbers of West Africa"<br />
for the more important timber species, and to the Dean of Forestry,<br />
Yale University for permission to quote from "Evergreen Forests of<br />
Liberia" for some of the minor species.<br />
Dr. C. J. Taylor and Dr. A. G. Voorhoeve kindly checked parts<br />
of the manuscript and permitted us to quote from their publioations<br />
on the trees of Ghana and Liberia, respectively.<br />
We are most grateful to Professor D. Arnott of the Department<br />
of Oriental and West African Languages at London University who<br />
arranged for some of the vernacular lists to be cheoked for<br />
oonsistenoy in spelling.<br />
Miss M. Managh and Mrs. R. Brion are to be thanked for typing<br />
the manusoript.<br />
Finally, we thank the Governments of Sierra Leone and the<br />
United Kingdom who have financed this work.<br />
Omagh,<br />
Co. Tyrone.<br />
15th November, 1967.<br />
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P.S.S.<br />
J.E.D.F.
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Sierra Leone SWAMP<br />
CLOSED FOREST \', c<br />
Vegetation 5 0 , 30<br />
MIL£S S<strong>AV</strong>ANNAH 'f./OODlA<br />
10 10 20 , ..... I<br />
FOREST RESf:RVES<br />
Figure 3. "Reproduced by permission of the Director of Lands<br />
and Surveys of Sierra Leone".<br />
.,<br />
' ..
and the Kangari Hills. The Sewa and its tributaries rise in the<br />
Loma Mountains and Tingi Hills and also drain much of Tonkoli, the<br />
Tama Forest and the west of the Nimini Hills. The Moa drains the<br />
east of Tingi Hills, the east of Nimini Hills, the Gori Hills and<br />
Lhei Hills and part of Gola West. The Mano River drains the<br />
remainder of the Gola Forests.<br />
GEOLOGY<br />
Approximately two-thirds of the country is granite, including<br />
ninety per cent of the high plateau area where large protruding<br />
inselbergs are common. <strong>Sc</strong>attered through the granite are narrow<br />
strips of metamorphic rocks known locally as the Kambui schists<br />
which occur as steep hilly outcrops. The major one runs from the<br />
Kangari Hills towards Lake <strong>So</strong>nfon; similar outcrops occur as the<br />
Kambui, Nimini and Gori Hills. Most of the important metal ores<br />
such as gold, iron and chromite are found in these schists. A<br />
narrow tongue of granite mixed with metamorphic rock known as the<br />
Marampa schists runs north-west from Sumbuya to the Guinea border<br />
at Kukuna. A belt of crystalline schists and gneisses, about<br />
twenty miles wide, runs from the south-east corner of the country<br />
to Kambia, this is known as the Kasila series. The Marampa schists<br />
are separated from the main granite mass by a belt of shales,<br />
conglomerates and other minor volcanic rocks known collectively as<br />
the Rokel River series. This belt stretches from near Sumbuya<br />
through Batkanu to the Guinea border; the rocks are predominately<br />
quick weathering. The coastal strip extending to twenty miles<br />
inland consists principally of recent sediments and is composed of<br />
beds of sand and clay. The hills of the Western Area are unique<br />
in composition and consist of a complex of basic igneous rocks,<br />
gabbros, niorites etc.<br />
SOILS Fig.1.<br />
<strong>So</strong>ils derived from the granite are generally young and are<br />
associated with hilly topography. They are usually free draining<br />
sands and gravels with a varYing proportion of lateritic gravel.<br />
The soils derived from the schists are characterised by<br />
lateritic and gravel pans which are the results of prolonged<br />
weathering, and exist mainly on ridges occupied by forest reserves.<br />
The soils derived from the crystalline schists are of relatively<br />
low fertility particularly where laterite is most abundant, and<br />
Lophira savanna is the predominant vegetation.<br />
<strong>So</strong>ils of the Rokel River series vary according to parent<br />
rock material, but a characteristic feature is the presence of a<br />
layer of ground water laterite which, on higher land has been<br />
exposed by erosion. The sand and silt fractions of the soil are<br />
largely deposited in the hollows. Such soils like other highly<br />
weathered soils are infertile, although not totally incapable of<br />
production.<br />
<strong>So</strong>ils of the coastal strip are often practically pure sand,<br />
though in the central and northern parts they contain a proportion<br />
of finer material and are relatively more fertile. These soils<br />
are deep, but not as free draining as would be expected, possibly<br />
owing to loss of structure by over cultivation.<br />
CLIMATE<br />
GENERAL<br />
Sierra Leone in common with its neighbours on the west coast<br />
of Africa experiences two pronounced seasons, a rainy season from<br />
May to October and a dry season from November to April. The onset<br />
and cessation of the rains are due to the movement of the Inter<br />
Tropical front and are accompanied by frequent thunderstorms with<br />
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torrential showers. July, August and September are the months of<br />
heaviest rainfall, when some rain falls nearly every day, and there<br />
are often periods of two or three days of continuous rain. The<br />
sky is usually cloudy though periods of two or three days with no<br />
rain are also not uncommon. Most of the rainfall is concentrated<br />
into short periods of very heavy rain. As the season falls off<br />
the rainfall becomes more regular and usually falls in the late<br />
afternoon or night. Towards the end of October the rain is small<br />
in amount, but for a period of up to two weeks, the night sky is<br />
alive with lightning and thunder claps fill the air.<br />
At the end of the rainy season Sierra Leone often experiences<br />
up to two weeks or more of the harmattan wind; this usually occurs<br />
during the period from the middle of December to the middle of<br />
January. This cold dry wind is accompanied by clear night skies<br />
which depress the night temperatures and gives rise to early<br />
morning mists and haze. Haze often occurs throughout January and<br />
February. The harmattan is very variable in duration both from<br />
year to year and from place to place. Very little rain falls in<br />
January and February but rather more in March and April. Most dry<br />
season rain falls at night and is of limited value for crops as it<br />
is rapidly lost to the atmosphere through the action of the sun.<br />
Thunderstorms are again frequent for a period of up to two weeks<br />
in May and thereafter the rain becomes more frequent and more<br />
prolonged.<br />
Agricultural crops are usually sown at this time. Plantation<br />
trees are put out rather later, towards the end of June or beginning<br />
of JUly when daily rain is certain. The rains of Sierra<br />
Leone are not subject to failure though dates of onset and<br />
cessation vary from year to year, as does the total fall and its<br />
chronological distribution.<br />
TEMPERATURE<br />
There is very little variation in mean temperature, which is<br />
around 800F. all the year. Mean monthly temperatures are lowest<br />
in August and highest in March and April (74-780F. and 78-840F.<br />
respectively). Mean monthly values for minimum temperatures are<br />
70o-750F. of the year but fall to 650-680F. for most during<br />
January at inland stations and reach their highest values, 72 0 <br />
75°F. during April or May. Mean monthly maximum tempera.tures go<br />
up to 96°F. in March at inland fairly low lying stations, but do<br />
not exceed 90 0 on the coast.<br />
SUNSHINE<br />
Cloud is more frequent during the rainy season and<br />
consequently the number of hours of sunshine is lowest during<br />
August. Even in August the average length of daily sunshine is<br />
around two hours. February has the most sunshine, averaging<br />
seven to eight hours per day.<br />
HUllIDITY<br />
The climate of Sierra Leone is often spoken of as humid.<br />
Relative humidity measured in the early morning (0900 hours), as<br />
mean monthly values, varies from seventy-seven per cent (at<br />
Musaia in April) to ninety-seven per cent (at Njala from July to<br />
September). Early morning relative humidity is lowest at most<br />
stations in April and highest in August. Relative humidity<br />
measured in the mid afternoon (1500 hours) is more variable.<br />
Mean monthly values are highest (74-90 per cent) at all stations<br />
in August, with a marked decrease from the coast to inland<br />
stations. They reach their lowest values (30-71 per cent) in<br />
February with a similar decrease from the coast to inland stations.<br />
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RAINFALL Fig. 2.<br />
Annual rainfall varies from over 200 inches in the Freetown<br />
area to eighty inches in the extreme north of the country. Three<br />
rainfall belts are usually distinguished: a coastal strip five to<br />
twenty miles wide receiving 125 inches and above: the area of<br />
country between this coastal strip and a line between the Kuru<br />
Hills in the north-west and Segbwema in the east, running in a<br />
north-west to south-east direction, which has 100-125 inches, and<br />
the area to the east of that line which receives less than 100<br />
inohes. Total annual rainfall varies from year to year quite<br />
considerably and to some extent from place to place. Most of this<br />
variation is due to heavier or lighter falls than average during<br />
one or more of the months from July to September.<br />
Histograms of mean monthly rainfall are given in fig. 2.<br />
Heaviest monthly falls are often in July near the coast, in<br />
August in the north and in September in the east of the country.<br />
Januar,y is universally the month with least rain. There are no<br />
significant exceptions to the general pattern of climate as seen<br />
through rainfall, only differences of degree. Thus stations to the<br />
east of the central rainfall belt tend to have more rain in the dry<br />
season months compared with stations to the north-west of that bel;t,<br />
whose total annual rainfall is similar. This is sometimes con- .<br />
sidered to be an important factor influencing the distribution of<br />
high forest.<br />
R>PULATION<br />
The population in 1963 according to a census was approximately<br />
2.18 million, or a mean popUlation density of seventy-six per<br />
square mile. Over the country there is considerable range in the<br />
population density, from twenty-seven persons per square mile in<br />
Koinadugu District, mostly savanna country in the north-east and<br />
including the very sparsely populated Loma Mountains, to over 100<br />
per square mile in Port Lako, Kambia and Bo districts. In terms<br />
of regions the Eastern Province is the most populous, apart from<br />
the Freetown area, with ninety persons per square mile.<br />
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In the semi-deciduous forests the effect of the harmattan is<br />
greatero Relative humidity is lower in the dry season and there<br />
are four months with only two inches of rain.<br />
Two principal types are recognised:<br />
(i) Tonkoli type. This type is found only in Tonkoli<br />
Forest Reserve which extends to the northern limit of the high<br />
forest zone. The forest is thought to be relatively young and is<br />
characterised by an abundance of the following species:<br />
Antiaris africana<br />
Chlorophora regia<br />
Parinari excelsa<br />
Parkia bicolor<br />
Piptadeniastrum africanum<br />
Pycnanthus angolensis<br />
Terminalia ivorensis<br />
(ii) Kasewe type. The second type of semi-deciduous forest<br />
is found in the central south-western part of the country including<br />
Kasewe, Moyamba and Singamba Forest Reserves. The most important<br />
characteristic species is Nesogordonia papaverifera. The following<br />
are also abundant:<br />
Brachystegia leonensis<br />
Bridelia grandis<br />
Cordia platythyrsa<br />
Piptadeniastrum africanum<br />
Terminalia ivorensis<br />
SERAL COMMUNITIES IN THE HIGH FOREST ZONE<br />
The present distribution of vegetation owes much to agricultural<br />
aotivity. Extensive bush fallow farming, mainly for upland<br />
rice, has resulted in a patchwork of woody bush whioh depends on<br />
its age and the fertility of its soil for height and speoifio<br />
oontent. All over the oountry the forms of bush are known by<br />
their age and condition in terms of suitability for farming.<br />
In this seotion the ways in which farm bush can revert to<br />
high forest are desoribed first, and then the ways in whioh it can<br />
be changed to more or less permanent and unproductive savanna.<br />
(i) Development of farm bush to high forest<br />
Early farming in Sierra Leone oonsisted of felling patohes of<br />
forest whioh were seldom more than ten aores in extent. The out<br />
vegetation was subsequently burnt, then the ground was cultivated<br />
and the crop sown. After the harvest at the end of the next rainy<br />
season, the farm was usually abandoned.<br />
Today there is praotically no natural forest available for<br />
farming, in faot there is a negligible amount of farm bush with a<br />
twenty-year fallow, and very little with a fallow more than<br />
fifteen years. It is well known that land bearing tropical forest<br />
more often than not loses its fertility rapidly when it has been<br />
cleared for agrioulture. The forest largely depends for its<br />
growth upon the rapid decomposition of org&Pic matter which it<br />
returns to the soil, supplemented by supplies obtained by tree<br />
roots from the mineral soil at oonsiderable depths.<br />
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When the forest is cleared this cycle is broken, but the<br />
farmer has overcome the difficulties associated with loss of<br />
fertility, by the use of the bush fallow which not only restores<br />
fertility but also reduces weed growth. Provided that the fallow<br />
does not fall below a limit, which varies with soil and climatic<br />
conditions, shifting cultivation can be continued with safety; in<br />
most upland areas a fallow of eight to ten years appears to be<br />
required to produce reasonably good rice crops.<br />
Where the fallow has been kept at a satisfactory level to<br />
maintain fertility the following changes in vegetation take place<br />
after a farm is abandoned:<br />
First many herbaceous plants, climbers, shrubs and small<br />
trees invade the area. The razor grass, <strong>Sc</strong>eleria barteri, is<br />
often common in the early stages and makes access difficult; small<br />
trees include:<br />
Albizia zygia<br />
Anthocleista spp.<br />
Canthium<br />
Cleistopholis patens<br />
Elaeis<br />
Funtumia spp.<br />
Harungana<br />
HOlarrhena<br />
Morinda<br />
Ochthocosmus<br />
Phyllanthus<br />
Ricinocendron<br />
Samanea<br />
Trema<br />
Xylopia spp.<br />
In many cases the species listed above form more or less pure<br />
stands which may develop into forty-feet high bush.<br />
If the farm were made in high forest the first stage may be<br />
a pure pole crop of Musanga. A few relic trees of the original<br />
forest are usually present, especially those with particUlarly<br />
hard wood such as Klainedoxa, for the farmers do not destroy all<br />
of them.<br />
The Malal Hills Forest Reserve is an example of an area in<br />
this stage of development.<br />
The second stage is a pole crop of potentially larger trees,<br />
mainly light demanders such as:<br />
Amphimas<br />
Bombax<br />
Bridelia<br />
Ceiba<br />
Chlorophora<br />
Fagara<br />
Nauclea<br />
Pycnanthus<br />
Terminalia<br />
The young secondary forest has now been formed and is easily<br />
recognised by the fairly uniform structure, the preponderance of<br />
light demanders and normally the presence of oil palms.<br />
The final stage results from the unequal growth rates and<br />
potentialities of the various species; for example Ricinodendron<br />
and Bridelia die out quite early and new species, especially shade<br />
bearers are recruited. Eventually a heterogeneous mixture that is<br />
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typical of high forest is brought about. It is more of less<br />
similar to primary forest according to its age.<br />
(ii) Derivation of Savanna<br />
Demands for food and cash crops are causing increasing demands<br />
on the land. There are now few chiefdoms with any appreciable area<br />
of unreserved bush which is more than ten years old, and in many<br />
parts the fallow period is below five years. Shortening the<br />
fallow period causes a loss in productivity which has to be made<br />
up by a corresponding increase in the area oultivated, and thus<br />
the position is aggravated.<br />
As the fallow period decreases the tree speoies ohange and<br />
there is an inorease in the number of oil palms and herbaoeous<br />
plants. In the southern part of the country steady degeneration<br />
of the bush generally ooours, but in the drier north and on the<br />
Rokel sands there is a rapid invasion of grass. In faot it is<br />
said that an appreciable area whioh now bears savanna has been<br />
covered with bush within living memory.<br />
The ohange from bush to grass results in a deterioration of<br />
farming oonditions, particularly where the savanna is burnt<br />
annually as so often happens. When conditions of Savanna woodland<br />
or orohard bush have been aohieved oommon tree speoies include:<br />
Hannoa undulata<br />
Anisophyllea laurina<br />
Daniellia oliveri<br />
Erythrina senegalensis<br />
Parinari exolesa<br />
Parkia biglobosa<br />
Bombax oostatum<br />
Piliostigma thonningii<br />
Fterooarpus erinaoeous<br />
Synzygium guineense var. macrocarpum<br />
Terminalia albida<br />
Uapaca togoensis<br />
In areas where savanna or grassland adjoin bush, persistent<br />
annual fires, ocourring late in the dry season, oause a gradual<br />
retreat of the bush, thus the area subject to fires is progressively<br />
increased and a considerable degradation of the soil ooours.<br />
The more valuable grazing grasses suoh as Andropogon teotorum and<br />
Chasmodium caudatum. are replaced by Imperata oylindrioa and<br />
elephant grass, Pennisetum. subangustum.. In areas where Lophira<br />
savanna is found farming and fire are said to encourage its spread.<br />
When this stage is reaohed the degradation of vegetation and<br />
soil is for practioal purposes irreversible and such land oannot<br />
be used sucoessfully at present.<br />
Throughout the savanna oountry, small relics of the former<br />
forest are dotted about, either as sacred bush or patches on<br />
moister land whioh is not easily burnt, or as the gallery forests<br />
on the lower slopes of mountains. In Eastern Kono and the Loma<br />
mountains area a typical species of these relics is Triplochiton<br />
soleroxylon.<br />
The exposure of the soil by farmers at the time of the early<br />
rains, which are torrential, oauses erosion to an extent depending,<br />
among other factors, on the type of soil and the steepness of the<br />
slope. Farmers often choose to oultivate hillsides which have<br />
slopes greater than forty-five degrees and from these the soil is<br />
rapidly washed away during a single farming season. Huge boulders<br />
and rocks are exposed.<br />
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Enoroaohing savanna also oauses erosion as the trees, whose<br />
roots hold the soil, are killed. Large areas of the Loma<br />
mountains have been denuded in this way during the last ten years.<br />
INLAND FRESH-WATER SWAMP FOREST<br />
This type of forest is subjeot to periodio inundation of fresh<br />
ground. water. It is found wherever the surfaoe soil is waterlogged<br />
and where free water aocumulates on the surfaoe of the soil for<br />
some period of the year. A similar type is also found on the<br />
ridges of watersheds, such as Nimini North, where lateritic pans<br />
near the surface hold water during the rains.<br />
The most oommon species in the fresh-water swamps is Mitragyna<br />
stipulosa and in the rain forest this is usually associated with<br />
Nauolea vanderguchtii. Other less frequent speoies which are more<br />
oommonly associated with the edge of the swamp are:<br />
Cleistopholis patens<br />
Gilbertiodendron splendidum<br />
Symphonia globulifera<br />
Kaoaranga heudelotii<br />
If the period of inundation is lengthened or if the swamp is<br />
permanently waterlogged or farmed regularly, palms replaoe other<br />
tree species and the ground vegetation consists of shrubs, ferns,<br />
and other hygrophilous plants, but grasses are absent.<br />
lIANGROVE WOODLAND<br />
)(a.ngrove woodland is found in the saline tidal areas, below<br />
the high tide mark in the estuaries of the main rivers, and to<br />
some extent along the coast. The mangroves are:<br />
Avicennia afrioana<br />
Conocarpus ereotus<br />
Laguncularia racemosa<br />
Rhizophora spp.<br />
LITTORAL WOODLAND<br />
In the coastal belt, partioularly in the extreme south of the<br />
country, where the soil is practically pure sand, the climax<br />
vegetation is a type of open savanna. It occurs on sites which<br />
are very wet, often flooded during the rains, and very dry during<br />
the dry season. The trees are widely spaced, singly, or in groups,<br />
and are stunted. Between them the ground is covered by a turf of<br />
short grasses. The vegetation is under constant maritime influence.<br />
Common tree species include:<br />
Cassia mimosoides<br />
Chrysobalanus ellipticus<br />
Anthostema senegalense<br />
Napoleona vogelii<br />
Parinari macrophYlla<br />
The areas less liable to prolonged flooding are often farmed<br />
and the resulting farm bush is oharacterised by the great abundance<br />
of the olimbing shrub Habropetalum dawei, a plant which is unique<br />
to this particular part of Sierra Leone.<br />
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The lower lying sites liable to prolonged waterlogging or<br />
flooding during the rains carry low crooked trees, including:<br />
Afrolicania elaeosperma<br />
Hymenocardia spp.<br />
Ochna multiflora<br />
RIVERSIDE FOREST<br />
Riverside forests are edaphic formations on river banks and<br />
are dependant upon a constant supply of soil moisture. Typical<br />
species include:<br />
Cathormion altissimum<br />
Cynometra leonensis<br />
Plagiosiphon emarginatus<br />
Myriantus spp.<br />
Pterocarpus santalinoides<br />
Uapaca heudelotii<br />
Didelotia afzelii<br />
Dialium dinklagei<br />
Gilbertiodendron bilineatum<br />
Paramacrolobium coeruleum<br />
Anthostema senegalense<br />
Napoleona vogelii<br />
Newtonia elliotii<br />
UPPER MONTANE FOREST<br />
This type of forest is seldom found at altitudes below 5,000<br />
ft. It is subjeot to mist and cloud and is evergreen. Such<br />
forest is found in small areas of the Loma mountains and Tingi<br />
Hills.<br />
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EXPLOITATION AND REGENERATION<br />
EXPLOITATION<br />
CHAPl'ER III<br />
Those high forests which are, or could be made accessible,<br />
and which are adequately stocked are exploited by two saw-mills.<br />
The larger of the two is situated at Kenema and is a state<br />
corporation; its total annual log intake is in the region of<br />
600,000 hoppus feet. The other mill is situated near Panguma and<br />
has an annual log intake of about 300,000 hoppus feet. Within the<br />
next five years it is planned to build a third mill to exploit<br />
Tonkoli and Tama reserves.<br />
The minimum acceptable stocking for exploitation is 325<br />
hoppus cubic feet per acre, and the average exploited is 415<br />
hoppus cubic feet.<br />
At least thirty common species are regUlarly felled but as<br />
many as eighty local tree names are listed as having been felled.<br />
REGENERATION<br />
Regeneration follows exploitation at about the same rate.<br />
Briefly, the method is first to decide whether the area should be<br />
regenerated naturally or artificially.<br />
(i) Natural regeneration<br />
If natural regeneration is to be done, all weed trees and<br />
defective economic trees are poisoned as soon as possible after<br />
logging. This gives rise to a dense shrub thicket, or in many<br />
instances a pole crop of young economic trees.<br />
When the thicket has grown so that access is possible by<br />
silvicultural gangs, and in any case not later than ten years<br />
after the initial poisoning, diagnostic sampling is carried out in<br />
order to determine whether to carry on with natural regeneration<br />
treatments or not. The minimum stocking required for an area to<br />
be considered worth while is ten or more trees over one foot in<br />
girth per acre.<br />
All that is usually necessary in the second treatment is<br />
poisoning weeds and defectives which exceed the smallest of the<br />
relied upon leading dominants, plus climber cutting.<br />
It is thought that the crops so treated are unlikely to need<br />
more than limited thinning before the end of the rotation. If so<br />
this is planned for about twenty to thirty years after felling.<br />
If a compartment is particularly well stocked with the more<br />
valuable species (those on list A below), then they alone are left<br />
unpoisoned in the second treatment, but in the majority of cases<br />
in the Eastern Provice trees are encouraged in natural regeneration<br />
if they appear on either of the following lists:<br />
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LIST A LIST B<br />
Brachystegia leonensis Albizia ferruginea<br />
Chlorophora regia Berlinia spp.<br />
Cordia platythyrsa Bridelia grandis<br />
Detarium senegalense Canarium schweinfurthii<br />
Didelotia idae Daniellia spp.<br />
Entandrophragma spp. Hannoa klaineana<br />
Fagara macrophylla Lophira alata<br />
Guarea cedrata Oldfieldia africana<br />
Heritiera utilis Ongokea gore<br />
Khaya spp. pycnanthus angolensis<br />
Lovoa trichiliodes Sacoglottis gabonensis<br />
Mitragyna stipulosa Terminalia superba<br />
Nauclea diderrichii Xylia evansii<br />
Nesogordonia papaverifera<br />
Piptadeniestrum africanum<br />
Terminalia ivorensis<br />
Tieghemella heckelii<br />
(ii) Artificial regeneration<br />
In most Protected Forests (which are usually low secondary<br />
forest), in savanna and increasingly in selected areas of high<br />
forest in Forest Reserves, planting is being carried out by the<br />
taungya method.<br />
The most common species planted are Terminalia ivorensis and<br />
Gmelina arborea, although many others have been tried and are still<br />
planted on a small scale. These include teak, various eucalypts,<br />
Terminalia superba, Heritiera. Cordia alliodora, Hannoa klaineana<br />
and Nauclea diderrichii. Pinus carribaea has recently shown<br />
itself to be very promising and will probably be used on a greater<br />
scale in savanna areas.<br />
Until 1965 all planting was done at close spacings which<br />
varied between 7 ft x 7 ft to 15 ft x 15 f't but recently much<br />
wider line planting methods are being introduoed with certain<br />
species in the high forest areas. Spacings of about 45 ft x 15 ft<br />
are employed.<br />
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CHAPl'ER IV<br />
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KEY<br />
The scientific classification and nomenclacture of trees is<br />
based on fertile material, and the positive determination of a<br />
species is often only possible on this basis. However, the<br />
following key for the more common large trees is based mainly on<br />
vegetative features of varying complexity, because flowers and<br />
fruits of tall trees are virtually inaccessible and in most cases<br />
only available seasonally. It is not claimed that the key will<br />
give absolutely certain determinations; results should be<br />
checked by means of descriptions and illustrations in this, and<br />
other publications. When fertile material is available the keys<br />
in the F.W.T.A. should be consulted.<br />
Before using the key, a mature leaf-bearing branch should be<br />
collected and notes made on the overall appearance and slash of<br />
the tree; in particular, more unusual characters such as the<br />
presence of stilt-roots, thorns, large buttresses or latex should<br />
be noted. The use of fallen leaves, flowers or fruit should be<br />
treated warily as it is easy to pick up material from a<br />
neighbouring tree of a different species.<br />
With only a few exceptions the key is dichotomous. Each<br />
number on the left gives the alternatives, a or b, and each<br />
alternative leads either to a new number or group, or to a<br />
determination, or sometimes another minor key in the text.<br />
KEY TO GROUPS<br />
1. a. Leaves simple 2<br />
b. Leaves compound 10<br />
2. a. Leaves opposite or whorled 3<br />
b. Leaves alternate 6<br />
a. Leaves whorled Group A<br />
b. Leaves opposite 4a.<br />
Coloured sap absent in the slash Group B<br />
b. Coloured sap or latex or gum present in the<br />
slash 5<br />
5. a. White latex present in the slash Group C<br />
b. Red or yellow sap or sticky gum present in<br />
the slash Group D<br />
6. a. Leaves palmately nerved Group E<br />
b. Leaves pinnately nerved 7<br />
a. White latex or coloured sap present in the<br />
slash Group F<br />
b. White latex or coloured sap absent in the<br />
slash 8<br />
8. a. Leaf margin not entire Group G<br />
b • Leaf margin entire 9<br />
9· a. Stilt roots present Group H<br />
b. Stilt roots absent Group I<br />
10. a. Leaves digitately compound or trifoliolate Group J<br />
b. Leaves (bi-) pinnately compound 11<br />
11. a. Leaves with two leaflets Group K<br />
b. Leaves with more than two leaflets, but not<br />
trifoliolate 12<br />
(For leaves with three leaflets see Group J)<br />
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Key - G-roup BjC/D<br />
9. a. Leaves long, obovate-oblanceolate, cuneate at the<br />
base, in tufts; branchlets often with prickles;<br />
bole sometimes with stilt roots Anthocleista spp.<br />
b. Leaves different 10<br />
10. a. Nerves inconspicuous even on the lower surface,<br />
leaves often serrate, elliptic to oblong, up to<br />
10 cm. long Cassipourea congoensis<br />
b. Nerves distinct on the lower surface 11<br />
11. a. Leaves elliptic, up to 20 om. long, coriaceous and<br />
markedly recurved, fragrant when crushed; leaves<br />
sub-opposite or alternate Beilschmiedia mannii<br />
b. Leaves oblong to obovate-elliptic, up to 20 cm.<br />
long; stipules up to 1 cm. long and 4 mm. broad,<br />
early deciduous, leaving transverse scars at the<br />
nodes Pausinystalia lane-poolei<br />
c. Leaves different; check G-roup D<br />
G-ROUP C: Leaves opposite. White latex present in the slash<br />
1. a. Leaves and branchlets verticillate; leaves 8-24 cm.<br />
long with 8-16 pairs of lateral nerves and a<br />
narrowly triangular acute tip; latex from young<br />
branchlets only Rauvolfia vomitoria<br />
b. Branchlets not verticillate 2<br />
2. a. Leaves mostly ovate-acuminate, 5-18 cm. long, with<br />
6-12 pairs of lateral nerves; slash characteristically<br />
layered; latex abundant<br />
Holarrhena floribunda<br />
b. Leaves elliptic or elliptic-oblong, acuminate,<br />
12-28 cm. long, with 6-12 pairs of lateral nerves;<br />
slash not layered; latex abundant Funtumia spp.<br />
c. Leaves different; check other Apocynaceae<br />
GROUP D: Leaves opposite. Coloured sap or gum present in the<br />
slash<br />
1. a. Leaves densely covered with stellate hairs, at least<br />
beneath 2<br />
b o Leaves not covered with stellate hairs 3<br />
2. a. Leaves ovate to ovate-elliptic; the whole tree<br />
(except the bark) covered with fine stellate hairs;<br />
sap plentiful, brilliant orange<br />
Harungana madagascariensis<br />
b. Leaves elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate, with<br />
stellate hairs beneath Vismia guineensis<br />
3. a. Leaves usually with up to twenty pairs of lateral<br />
nerves; sap clear or yellow; fruit 40 cm. long,<br />
15 cm. broad Allanblackia floribunda<br />
b. Leaves usually with more than twenty pairs of<br />
lateral nerves 4<br />
4. a. Leaves often punctate, or with resinous lines<br />
oblique to the lateral nerves; small dots of yellow<br />
latex in the slash G-arcinia spp.<br />
b. Resin ducts, if present, between the lateral nerves 5<br />
50 a. Resin ducts between the lateral nerves; leaves<br />
elliptic to obvate, 10-20 cm. long; fruit 15 cm.<br />
long, 11 cm. broad Pentadesma butyracea<br />
b. Resin ducts absent, fruit smaller 6<br />
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Key - Group DIE<br />
6. a. Tree with stilt roots; leaf oblanceolate, 5-10 cm.<br />
long Symphonia globulifera<br />
b. Tree without stilt roots; leaf oblong elliptic,<br />
15-25 cm. long Mammea africana<br />
GROUP E: Leaves simple, alternate, palmately nerved<br />
1. a. Leaves with stellate hairs, at least when young<br />
(Sterculiaceae and Tiliaceae) 2<br />
b. Leaves without stellate hairs 8<br />
2. a. Leaves palmately 5-7 lobed Tripl'Ochiton scleroxylon<br />
b. Leaves not lobed 3<br />
3. a. Leaves cordate at base 4<br />
b. Leaves not usually cordate 7<br />
4. a. Leaves 6-7 nerved at the base 5<br />
b. Leaves with five nerves at the base; fruits large,<br />
containing water and edible seeds<br />
Cola lateritia var. maclaudi<br />
5. a. Leaf margin denticulate, 15-30 cm. long, 8-15 cm.<br />
broad Mansonia altissima<br />
b. Leaf margin entire 6<br />
6. a. Leaves 10-38 cm. long and broad; tree with well<br />
developed buttresses pterygota macrocarpa<br />
b. Leaves about 20 cm. long and 15 cm. broad; hairs<br />
persistent and dense on both surfaces; a riverside<br />
tree Christiana africana<br />
7. a. Leaves with persistent hairs beneath; rounded at<br />
the base, 10-18 cm. long, 5-11 cm. broad<br />
Sterculia tragacantha<br />
b. Leaves very minutely hairy when young, up to 11 cm.<br />
long and 5 cm. broad; tree with large buttresses<br />
Nesogordonia papaverifera<br />
8. a. Leaf margin entire, leaf not lobed 9<br />
b. Leaf margin not entire and/or leaf lobed 12<br />
a. Leaves 3-6 cm. long 10<br />
b. Leaves more than 6 cm. long 11<br />
10. a. Leaves with three rather indistinct nerves from the<br />
rounded base; bark smooth; slash red and sticky;<br />
tree of Gola Forests only Didelotia idae<br />
b. Leaves obovate, with a faint pair of false nerves<br />
from the base and curved intrapetiolar stipules<br />
Erythro:xylum mannii<br />
11. a. Leaves 7-15 cm. long, 2.5-7 cm. broad, with 1-2 main<br />
longitudinal nerves on each side of midrib; young<br />
branchlets hairy AnisophYllea spp.<br />
b. Leaves broadly rounded, 10-20 cm. long, 8-15 cm.<br />
broad, with 4-5 pairs of lateral nerves, the lower<br />
pair from the base Cordia platythyrsa<br />
12. a. Leaves not lobed, dentate on the upper part only,<br />
with three nerves from the base and a pair of hairy<br />
glands at the base on the upper surface; petiole<br />
2.5-6 cm. long Discoglypremna caloneura<br />
b. Leaves lobed and/or dentate along the whole of the<br />
margin 13<br />
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Key - Group ElF<br />
13. a. Tree with white latex; leaves broadly elliptic,<br />
7-11 cm. long, cordate at base, hairs in the axilis<br />
of nerves beneath Morus mesozygia<br />
b • Tree without white latex 14<br />
14. a. Leaves usually bilobed at the apex; margin entire<br />
Piliostigma spp. or Bauhinia spp.<br />
b. Leaves ovate, not lobed, distichous, closely<br />
serrulate, hairy; a small tree of farm regrowth<br />
Trema guineensis<br />
c. Leaves very deeply lobed, (sometimes 5-7-foliolate,<br />
or simple, or shortly 3-10bed); small trees, often<br />
by water Myrianthus spp ,<br />
GROUP F: Trees with white latex or coloured sap in the<br />
slash. Leaves simple, alternate, pinnately nerved.<br />
1 0 a. Red or reddish sap in the slash 2<br />
b. White latex in the slash 3<br />
2. a. Leaves markedly distichous and drooping, up to 30 cm.<br />
long, with 20-35 pairs of lateral nerves<br />
b o<br />
pycnanthus angolensis<br />
Leaves similar but with only 6-9 pairs of slender,<br />
curved lateral nerves Coelocaryon oxycarpum<br />
3. a. Leaves cordate at the base, usually broadly elliptic<br />
or sub-orbicular 4b.<br />
Leaves cuneate or rounded at the base, elliptic to<br />
narrowly ovate 7<br />
4. a o Leaves assymetrical at the base, glabrous, with<br />
9-15 pairs of lateral nerves; stipules leaving<br />
annular scars; bole fluted; tree often of<br />
river banks Treculia africana<br />
b. Leaf and tree different 5<br />
5. Leaves scabrid, venation strongly reticulate<br />
beneath, with 6-12 pairs of lateral nerves; petiole<br />
2-12 mm. long Antiaris africana<br />
b. Leaves different 6<br />
6. a. Leaves with 6-10 pairs of lateral nerves which are<br />
sparsely covered with hairs; petiole 3-6 cm. long<br />
Chlorophora regia<br />
b. Leaves large, up to 30 cm. long, emarginate at apex;<br />
branchlets fleshy Elaeophorbia grandifolia<br />
c. Leaves different; check Fious app.<br />
7. a. Leaves oblong-elliptic, obtuse or rounded at the<br />
base, up to 15 om. long; margin toothed; a pair of<br />
sessile glands at the base Sapium aubrevillei<br />
b o Leaves different; margin not toothed 8<br />
8. a. Leaves up to 13 cm. long; elliptic with rounded<br />
margins and numerous lateral nerves spreading at<br />
right angles; leaves markedly distichous; tree<br />
common on river banks Anthostema senegalense<br />
b , Leaves different (Sapotaceae) 9<br />
9. a. Leaves hairy, sometimes densely so, at least<br />
beneath and when young 10<br />
b. Leaves glabrous, or nearly so beneath 12<br />
10. a. Nerves indistinct; leaves variable in shape, often<br />
glaucous below when mature Manilkara obovata<br />
b. Nerves prominent 11<br />
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Key - Group FIG<br />
11. a. Petiole longer than 1 cm. (ChrysophYllum) see key p.238<br />
b. Petiole up to 1 cm. long, leaves with rusty yellow<br />
hairs, dense beneath<br />
Aningeria robusta (check also Chrysophyllum)<br />
12. a. Petiole shorter than 1 cm. 13<br />
b. Petiole longer than 1 cm. 15<br />
13. a. Nerves very numerous, obscure, leaves oblong, very<br />
shortly cuneate at the base<br />
Chrysophyllum pruniforme<br />
b. Nerves up to about 25 pairs 14<br />
14. a. Leaves large, obovate, attenuated to base; subsessile<br />
fruits very large, borne on stem; tree of<br />
moist sites Omphalocarpum spp.<br />
b. Leaves smaller (not exceeding 16 cm. long),<br />
oblanceolate, narrowed from well above middle of<br />
base and there obtuse; petiole stout and hairy<br />
Afrosersalisia afzelii<br />
(check also Pachystela brevipes)<br />
15. a. Nerves prominent beneath; leaves oblanceolate,<br />
8-16 cm. long, apex elongated, 10-15 pairs of<br />
lateral nerves; petiole 1-2 cm. long, hairy<br />
Chrysophyllum subnudum<br />
b. Nerves inconspicuous beneath 16<br />
16. a. Leaves clustered in pseudo-whorls at the ends of<br />
branchlets; lanceolate-elliptic with about ten<br />
pairs of indistinct lateral nerves; short, sharp<br />
stipules present at least at end of branchlets<br />
Neolemmoniera clitandrifolia<br />
b. Leaves glabrous clustered in groups at the ends of<br />
branchlets; without stipules; lateral nerves<br />
numerous and indistinct Tieghemella heckelii<br />
c. Leaves not distinctly clustered; without stipules;<br />
lateral nerves numerous and indistinct; leaves<br />
siDcy beneath when young, often glaucous-grey when<br />
older Manilkara obovata<br />
GROUP G: Leaves simple, alternate, pinnately nerved, margins<br />
not entire. Trees without white latex or coloured sap in the<br />
slash.<br />
1 • a. Leaves cordate at the base<br />
b. Leaves not cordate at the base<br />
2<br />
3<br />
2. a. Leaves large, 12-30 cm. long, 5-14 cm. broad,<br />
markedly coriaceous and distichous, tertiary nerves<br />
prominent Homalium letestui<br />
b. Leaves up to 11 cm. long, slash with a hot pepperlike<br />
taste Drypetes spp.<br />
c. Leaves 7-16 cm. long, 4-7 cm. broad, denticulate<br />
towards apex, with a thin cottony felt beneath when<br />
young Parinari aubrevillei<br />
3. a. Leaves indistinctly 3-nerved from the base, toothed<br />
only towards the apex Discoglypremna caloneura<br />
b. Leaves not 3-nerved from the base 4<br />
4. a. Bole with spines; leaves rather variable, undulate<br />
but seldom toothed; usually auriculate at the base;<br />
small tree Macaranga barteri<br />
b. Bole without spines 5<br />
5. a. Slash with a distinct smell 6<br />
b. Slash without a distinct smell 7<br />
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Key - Group GIn<br />
6. a. Slash smelling strongly or boiled chicken; leaves<br />
rounded at the base, 6-15 cm. long, 3-5 cm. broad<br />
with a small gland on each tooth and in the axil of<br />
each nerve Maesopsis eminii<br />
b. Slash smelling similar to bitter almonds; leaves<br />
toothed in the upper third only, each with 3-4 pairs<br />
of nerves about 8 cm. long <strong>Sc</strong>ottelia coriacea<br />
7. a. Blade acutely narrowed at the base on to the<br />
petiole; leaves with up to 12 pairs of much<br />
divided nerves; bole heavily fluted<br />
Sacoglottis gabonensis<br />
b. Blade not narrowed on to the petiole 8<br />
8. a. Teeth with black glands; leaves acute at the base,<br />
8-11 cm. long, 2-4 cm. broad, with few lateral<br />
nerves; a small tree Ochthocosmus africanus<br />
b. Leaves cuneate or obtuse at the base; a pair of<br />
small glands present at the base of the blade;<br />
slash very bitter Mareya micrantha<br />
GROUP H: Trees with stilt roots, leaves simple, alternate,<br />
pinnately nerved, margin entire. Trees without white latex or<br />
coloured sap in the slash.<br />
(Numbers 6-9 in the key include trees which do not fall into<br />
this group, except that they also have stilt roots).<br />
1 • a. Leaves simple, alternate 2<br />
b. Leaves not simple, a1ternate 6<br />
2. a. Stilt roots usually more or less cylindrical 3<br />
b. Stilt roots very distinctly laterally flattened 5<br />
3. a o Stilt roots low, bole often with spines; petiole<br />
less than 1 cm. long; see key p .112 Bridelia spp.<br />
b o Stilt roots usually high; petiole more than 1 cm.<br />
long, leaves often in clusters at ends of<br />
branchlets 4<br />
4. a. Leaves up to 20 cm. long or more, not glandular,<br />
stilt roots often up to 6 ft. high Uapaca spp.<br />
b. Leaves 7-16 cm. long, 4-9 cm. broad, minutely and<br />
closely glandular beneath, slightly auriculate,<br />
petiole 2-10 cm. long Macaranga barteri<br />
(If leaves are palmately nerved; lobed or toothed<br />
check other Macaranga spp.)<br />
5. a. Slash with a strong aromatic scent; leaves with<br />
about 8 pairs of lateral nerves and a densely<br />
reticulate surface Xylopia staudtii<br />
b. Slash not aromatic; leaves densely scaley beneath<br />
with 10-15 pairs of lateral nerves, petiole long,<br />
some leaves digitately 5-7 foliolate<br />
Heritiera utilis<br />
6. a. Leaves simple, opposite 7<br />
b. Leaves compound, alternate 8<br />
7. a. Leaves 5-10 cm. long, with numerous lateral nerves;<br />
tree of wet places Symphonia globulifera<br />
b. Leaves much longer, in tufts, branchlets often with<br />
prickles Anthocleista spp.<br />
8. a. Leaves digitately compound Musanga cecropioides<br />
b. Leaves pinnately compound 9<br />
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Key - Group H/r<br />
9. a. Leaves paripinnate, with 3-4 pairs of leaflets; 2-4<br />
black pointed excrescences above, in axil leaf<br />
b o<br />
Koue stapfiana<br />
Leaves imparipinnate, with 5-7 leaflets; slash<br />
fragrant Santiria trimera<br />
GROUP I: Leaves simple, alternate, pinnately nerved, margins<br />
entire. Trees without white latex or coloured sap in the<br />
slash, and without stilt roots.<br />
1. a. Leaves normally at least 15 cm. long and at least<br />
three times as long as broad 2<br />
b. Leaves usually smaller but in any case less than<br />
three times as long as broad 8<br />
2. a. Leaves emarginate or rounded at apex, with numerous<br />
fine parallel nerves joining a marginal nerve<br />
Lophira spp.<br />
b. Leaves not emarginate at apex 3<br />
3. a. Leaves with more than 15 pairs of lateral nerves 4<br />
b. Leaves with less than 15 pairs of lateral nerves 5<br />
4. a. Petiole distinctly jointed at both ends; leaves<br />
hairy on midrib and nerves beneath, with 15-35 pairs<br />
of nerves; small tree of wet forest<br />
Protomegabaria stap:ri.ana<br />
b. Leaves with stipules up to 20 cm. long, or annular<br />
scars left by fallen stipules, leaves finely<br />
reticulate on both surf'aces; juvenile form of<br />
Klainedoxa gabonensis<br />
5. a. Leaves strongly undulate, rounded to cuneate at base,<br />
with 10-15 pairs of steeply ascending lateral nerves;<br />
distichous; slash strongly scented<br />
Pachypodanthium staudtii<br />
b. Leaves different 6<br />
6. a. Leaves hairy in axils of nerves beneath, with 9-11<br />
pairs of lateral nerves with parallel tertiary<br />
nerves; slash very gummy Strephonema pseudocola<br />
b. Leaves different 7<br />
7. a. Leaves cuneate and slightly decurrent at base,<br />
recurved, arcuate, coriaceous, with 5-10 pairs of<br />
lateral nerves; leaves often sub-opposite; slash<br />
scented Beilshmiedia mannii<br />
b. Leaves deltoid at base, rigidly coriaceous, with<br />
8-10 pairs of lateral nerves, slightly raised below<br />
Amanoa bracteosa<br />
c. Leaves different; oheck Ochna spp. and Ouratea spp.<br />
8. Small trees; leaves subsessile; slash strongly<br />
aromatic; check Xylopia spp. and other Annonaceae<br />
b. Generally larger trees; slash not aromatic 9<br />
9. a. Leaves with persistent stipules or when caducous<br />
leaving annular scars 10<br />
b. Leaves without stipules, or stipules inoonspicuous<br />
and falling early 15<br />
10. a. Stipules 1.5-10 cm. long, linear, caducous, leaving<br />
a distinct annular scar at the node 11<br />
b. Stipules generally persistent, smaller and not<br />
linear (or when caducous not leaving annular scars) 12<br />
11 • a. Leaves with over 20 pairs of nerves; stipules up to<br />
10 cm. long; tree with very well developed<br />
buttresses Klainedoxa gabonensis<br />
b. Leaves with 5-11 pairs of nerves; stipules about<br />
1.5 cm. long; tree with buttresses<br />
Irvingia gabonensis<br />
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Key - Group I<br />
26. a. Branchlets flattened 27<br />
b. Branchlets not flattened 28<br />
27. a. Leaves with a pair of false nerves from the base<br />
and a pair of curved intrapetiolar stipules<br />
Erythroxylum mannii<br />
b. Leaves vdth 4-10 pairs of nerves; petiole<br />
caniculate Ongokea gore<br />
28. a o Bole with thorns 29<br />
b. Bole without thorns 30<br />
29. a. Petiole 3-14 cm. lone Calonocoba gilgiana<br />
b. Petiole shorter than 3 cm.; leaves distichous;<br />
nerves 10-13 pairs, joining a marginal nerve; tree<br />
occasionally with stilt roots Bridelia spp.<br />
30. a. Leaves with stellate or scaley hairs 31<br />
b. Leaves with simple hairs, or glabrous 37<br />
31. a. Leaves with dense scaley hairs beneath; midrib<br />
slightly raised above with 10-15 pairs of lateral<br />
nerves; tree always with buttresses and sometimes<br />
stilt roots Heritiera utilis<br />
b. Leaves with stellate hairs 32<br />
32 0 a. Petiole very short; stellate and simple hairs<br />
present; slash bright yellow and scented<br />
Enantia polycarpa<br />
b. Petioles over 1 cm. long 33<br />
33. a. Nerves less than 10 pairs 34<br />
b. Nerves more than 10 pairs 35<br />
34. a. Blade vdth minute stellate hairs when young,<br />
especially in axils of nerves beneath; up to 11 cm.<br />
long, acuminate and mucronate at apex; slash pink<br />
Nesogordonia papaverifera<br />
b. Hairs bushy; petiole swollen at top; blade up to<br />
30 cm. long; slash yellow Octoknema borealis<br />
35. a. Leaves ovate-elliptic, obtusely and shortly<br />
acuminate Sterculia tragacantha<br />
b. Leaves elongate-elliptic long caudate-acuminate,<br />
petiole caniculate above Coula edulis<br />
36. a. Leaves hairy beneath 37<br />
b. Leaves glabrous or glabrescent beneath 38<br />
37. a. Leaves elliptic-obovate, distichous, up to 14 cm.<br />
long; midribs and nerves prominent beneath,<br />
joining a marginal nerve Bridelia spp.<br />
b. Leaves oblong-oblanceolate, up to 25 cm. long with<br />
stellate and simple hairs beneath; slash bright<br />
yellow and scented Enantia polycarpa<br />
c. Leaves elliptic with indistinct glands on petiole or<br />
base of blade (Parinari spp.) see key p.216<br />
38. a. Leaves cordate or sub-cordate at base 39<br />
b. Leaves not cordate at base 40<br />
39. a. Leaves unequally rounded and sub-cordate at base;<br />
ovate with 3-5 pairs of nerves; petiole usually<br />
less than 1 cm. long Okoubaka aubrevillei<br />
,b. Leaves rounded or slightly cordate at base, ovate<br />
with about 4 pairs of nerves; petiole 1.3-2.5 cm.<br />
long Baphia nitida<br />
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Key - Group L/!l<br />
17. a. Pinnae 4-7 pairs, each with 8-12 pairs of leaflets<br />
15-35 mm. long, 5-20 mm. broad; rhachis with a<br />
shallow, broad groove above Aubrevillea platycarpa<br />
b. Pinnae about 10 pairs, each with about 12 pairs of<br />
leaflets 2.5 cm. long, 1 cm. broad, unequal sided<br />
at base, emarginate and shortly mucronate at apex<br />
Pentaclethra macrophYlla<br />
18. a. Pinnae 3-6 pairs, each with 10-14 pairs of leaflets<br />
on two distal pairs of pinnae, fewer on basal pairs;<br />
leaflets oblong, 11-23 mm. long Albizia ferruginea<br />
b. Pinnae 4-9 pairs, each with 9-17 pairs of leaflets,<br />
terminal pair smaller than others; leaflets<br />
obliquely rhombic, quadrate, 7-17 mm. long;<br />
rhachides and pinnae densely hairy<br />
Albizia adianthifolia<br />
19. a. Tree armed with spines, generally small growing in<br />
scrub and savanna; pinnae about 10 pairs with a<br />
rod-like gland between each<br />
Dichrostachys glomerata<br />
b. Tree unarmed; leaf different 20<br />
20. a. Leaves with up to 8 pairs of pinnae 21<br />
b. Leaves with more than 8 pairs of pinnae 22<br />
21. a. Pinnae 5-8 pairs, each with 16-30 pairs of leaflets,<br />
10-20 mm. long Aubrevillea kerstingii<br />
b. Pinnae 5-7 pairs, each with 12-25 pairs of leaflets,<br />
10-15 mm. long; a waterside tree often with<br />
spines Cathormion altissimum<br />
22. a. Petiole 5-10 cm. long 23<br />
b. Petiole less than 4 cm. long 24<br />
23. a. High forest tree; pinnae 10-26 on each side of<br />
rhachis; leaflets 20-55 on each side of rhachis of<br />
each pinna Parkia bicolor<br />
b. Savanna tree; pinnae 8-16 on each side of rhachis;<br />
leaflets 35-55 on each side of rhachis of each<br />
pinna Parkia biglobosa<br />
24. a. Pinnae 10-20 on each side of rhachis; leaflets<br />
numerous, each up to 8.5 mm. long and auriculate at<br />
the base; petiole without a gland<br />
Piptadeniastrum africanum<br />
b. Pinnae 20-30 pairs, leaflets numerous, each up to<br />
4 mm. long; rhachides with a gland at base and<br />
between some of the upper pinnae Samanea dinklagei<br />
GROUP M: Leaves imparipinnate. (If imparipinnate with only<br />
three leaflets see GROUP J).<br />
1. a. Leaves opposite (Bignoniaceae) 2<br />
b. Leaves alternate 3<br />
2. a. Leaflets 9-17, each with a large gland or pair of<br />
glands at the base, on upper surface; flowers red<br />
Spathodea campanulata<br />
b. Leaflets 11-13 without glands; flowers pink<br />
Stereospermum acuminatissimum<br />
c. Leaflets 7-14, glandular at base and minutely<br />
punctate beneath; small tree with purple and white<br />
foxglove-like flowers Newbouldia laevis<br />
3. a. Leaflets alternate 4b.<br />
Leaflets opposite or sub-opposite 10<br />
4. a. Leaves with persistent stipules 5<br />
b. Stipules not persistent 6<br />
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Key - Group N<br />
4. a. Leaflets about 6 pairs, small, up to 3 cm. long<br />
and 1.5 cm. broad Cynometra leonensis<br />
b. Leaflets larger 5<br />
5. a. Leaflets 5.5-12 cm. long, 3-6.5 cm. broad,<br />
obliquely cuneate at base, with stiff spreading<br />
hairs Berlinia spp.<br />
b. Leaflets 3-4 pairs, 5-8 cm. long, obliquely-oblong,<br />
glabrous; tree usually growing by water<br />
Didelotia afzelii<br />
c. Leaflets 5-10 cm. long, 2.5-5 cm. broad; petiole<br />
and rhachis up to 20 cm. long Cassia sieberiana<br />
6. a. Tree with blunt spines; leaflets small, 6-18 mm.<br />
long, 2.5 mm. broad; tree often by water<br />
Plagiosiphon emarginatus<br />
b. Tree without blunt spines and with larger leaflets 7<br />
7. a. Leaflets with strong marginal nerve, petiolules<br />
twisted; tree with scented slash<br />
Copaifera salikounda<br />
b. Leaflets unequally rounded at base, 2-3 cm. long,<br />
0.8-1 cm. broad, glabrous and rather strongly<br />
reticulate beneath Tamarindus indica<br />
c. Leaflets 8-10 pairs, the largest in the middle,<br />
asymetrical at base, minutely emarginate; rhachis<br />
with short stiff spreading hairs<br />
Brachystegia leonensis<br />
8. a. Leaves with 1-2 pairs of leaflets 9<br />
b. Leaves with 2-6 pairs of leaflets 11<br />
c. Leaves with more than 6 pairs of leaflets 26<br />
9. a. Leaflets two pairs, the upper pair about twice as<br />
long as the lower and falcate<br />
Cryptosepalum tetraphyllum<br />
b. Leaflets different 10<br />
10. a. Leaflets 1-2 pairs; lower pair if present about<br />
3 cm. long, ovate-rhombicj upper pair obliquelyovate,<br />
7-10 cm. long, glabrous; rhachis winged<br />
Hymenostegia afzelii<br />
b. Leaflets 1-5 pairs, usually hairy, branchlets<br />
sometimes distinctly ridged; trees usually small<br />
Blighia spp. or other Sapindaceae<br />
11. a. Persistent intrapetiolar stipules present 12<br />
b. Stipules absent or not persistent 13<br />
12. a. Leaflets each with a strong marginal nerve, unequal<br />
at base; petiolules twisted<br />
Paramacrolobuim coeruleum<br />
b. Petiole short, forming a joint with the first pair<br />
of leaflets; leaflets small Giblertiodendron spp.<br />
13. a. 2-4 black pointed excrescences above, in axil of<br />
leaf; leaflets glabrous, wIth 5-8 pairs of nerves;<br />
stilt roots sometimes present Kaoue stapfiana<br />
b. Leaves different; tree without stilt roots 14<br />
14. a. Leaflets with nerves distinctly impressed above 15<br />
b. Nerves not impressed above 16<br />
15. a. Nerves 14-22 pairs, very prominent below; petioles<br />
winged, with rusty hairs; leaflets usually galled<br />
Entandrophragma candollei<br />
b. Nerves about 10 pairs; branchlets, petioles,<br />
rhachides and petiolules hairy; petioles flattened<br />
or slightly winged Blighia sapida or B. welwitschii<br />
160 a. Leaflets prominently hairy on whole of lower surface 17<br />
b. Leaflets glabrous, or with scattered hairs, or hairs<br />
on nerves only 18<br />
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Key - Group N<br />
17. a. Leaflets 3 pairs, up to 20 cm. long, 9 cm. broad<br />
with stellate-scaley hairs beneath and 9-12 main<br />
pairs of nerves; petiole long; slash scented;<br />
(leaves are more often imparipinnate with 7<br />
leaflets) Dacryodes klaineana<br />
b. Leaflets 2-5 pairs, with 12-24 prominent pairs of<br />
nerves beneath; leaflets and branchlets with dense<br />
rusty hairs Anthonotha fragrans<br />
c. Leaflets 3 pairs, hairs silvery, nerves only<br />
slightly prominent; always a small tree<br />
Anthanotha macrophylla<br />
18. a. Leaflets about 6 pairs, up to 3 cm. long and 1.5 cm<br />
broad Cynometra leonensis<br />
b. Leaflets mostly larger 19<br />
19. a. Leaflets more than twice as long as broad, drying<br />
glaucous green, with 8-16 pairs of nerves; tree of<br />
savanna regions Khaya senegalensis<br />
b. Leaflets usually less than twice as long as broad 20<br />
20. a. Trees without well developed buttresses 21<br />
b. Trees with well developed thick buttresses 22<br />
21. ao Leaflets 5-10 cm. long, 2.5-5 cm. broad; petiole<br />
and rhachis up to 20 cm. long; small tree of farm<br />
bush or savanna Cassia sieberiana<br />
b. Leaflets 3.5-25 cm. long, 1.5-10 cm. broad, usually<br />
hairy in axils of main lateral nerves beneath;<br />
petiole and rhachis up to 12 cm. long<br />
Blighia unijugata<br />
c. Leaves different 24<br />
22. a. Slash with a pronounced cedar scent, reddish or<br />
pinkish 23<br />
b. Slash not normally cedar scented or red 24<br />
23. a. Leaflets 3 pairs, 8-15 cm. long, 4-8 cm. broad,<br />
leathery with 5-9 pairs of nerves; tree glabrous<br />
Khaya anthotheca<br />
b. Leaflets 5-9 pairs, smaller, asymetrical at base<br />
with 6-12 pairs of nerves and closely reticulate<br />
venation; petioles flattened and slightly winged<br />
Entandrophrat@a cylindricum<br />
24. a. Leaflets 4-6 pairs, lowest pair ovate, others more<br />
elliptic, 4-12 cm. long, 2-5 cm. broad, oblique at<br />
base and abruptly long-acuminate, with 5-7 pairs of<br />
nerves; long (60 cm.) elastic fruits persistent on<br />
ground under trees; tree glabrous<br />
Chidlowia sanguinea<br />
b. Leaf and tree different 25<br />
25. a. Leaflets glabrous, conspicuously reticulate on both<br />
surfaces; typical fruit usually persisting on<br />
ground under trees Af'zelia spp.<br />
b. Leaflets glabrous or slightly hairy, not<br />
conspicuously reticulate; check Berlinia spp.<br />
260 a. Leaves with persistent intrapetiolar stipules 27<br />
b o Stipules absent, or not persistent 28<br />
27. a. Leaflets about 20 pairs, mucronate at apex,<br />
1.5-3 cm. long, up to 1 cm. broad; stipules<br />
3 cm. long Monopetalanthus pteridophyllus<br />
b. Petiole short, forming a joint with the first pair<br />
of leaflets Gilbertiodendron .pp.<br />
28. a. Leaflets about 20 pairs, up to 1.5 cm. long, 4 mm.<br />
broad Monopetalanthus compactus<br />
b. Leaflets fewer, or if as many then much larger 29<br />
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Key - Group N<br />
29. a. Leaflets up to 3 cm. long, 1.5 cm. broad, seldom<br />
more than 6 pairs Cynometra leonensis<br />
b. Leaflets 2-3 cm. long, up to 1 cm. broad, 12-15<br />
pairs, reticulate, glabrous; savanna tree<br />
Tamarindus indica<br />
c. Leaflets more than 3 cm. long 30<br />
30. a. Leaflets 6-12 pairs, sub-opposite or alternate;<br />
margins inrolled on lower surface Aporrhiza urophYlla<br />
b. Margins not inrolled on lower surface 31<br />
31. a. Leaflets 8-10 pairs, the largest in the middle,<br />
asymetrical at base, minutely emarginate; rhachis<br />
with short stiff spreading hairs<br />
Brachystegia leonensis<br />
b. Leaflets 5-9 pairs, glabrous, unequal at base,<br />
acuminate with translucent points; 6-9 cm. long,<br />
205-3.5 cm. broad in crown; tree never buttressed<br />
in any way Daniellia thurifera or D. ogea<br />
c. Leaf and tree different 32<br />
32. a. Leaflets 5-10 cm. long, 2.5-5 cm. broad; petiole<br />
and rhachis up to 20 cm. long; small tree of farm<br />
bush or savanna Cassia sieberiana<br />
b. Tree generally much larger; probably Meliaceae<br />
see key P.152<br />
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Figure 4. Antrocaryon micraster a) Leaf b) Fruit.
Figure 5. Lannea nigritana var. nigritana a) Leaf b) Fruit.
Figure 6. Leaf<br />
Spondias
Figure 7. Cleistopholis patens a) Leaves b) Fruits c) Carpel<br />
and seeds.<br />
Enantia polycarpa d) Leaves e) Fruits.
ANACARDIACEAE - Spondias!Trichoscypha<br />
DISTRIBUTION Spondias is thought not to be a native of West<br />
Africa and has probably been introduced from America. It is<br />
found all over Sierra Leone, especially near villages where it.<br />
is often grown for the fruit. In parts of the north cuttings<br />
are planted round villages to form live cattle fences. The<br />
tree is fairly common in farm regrowth, especailly in savanna<br />
areas, and the hard bark protects it against grass fires.<br />
Spondias is rare in more advanced secondary forests.<br />
USES The plum-like fruits and the seeds are edible. The wood<br />
ash is used in making soap and also in the preparation of an<br />
ingredient in native snuff. Dalziel records that young leaves<br />
are used both as an infusion internally, and as a warm astringent<br />
lotion, by women in confinement.<br />
Trichoscypha arborea (A. Chev.) A. Chev.<br />
Vernacular names: Me. Kpomaluwei; Te. An-ThalJka.<br />
BOTANY Leaves pinnately compound with 6-8 pairs of coriaceous<br />
leaflets, each oblong-elliptic, oblong-oblanceolate or oblonglanceolate,<br />
cuneate to rounded and sometimes subfalcate at the<br />
base, acuminate, up to 25 cm. long and 8 cm. broad, quite glabrous,<br />
with 10-18 pairs of main lateral leaves. The leaves are clustered<br />
at the ends of branchlets.<br />
Inflorescence up to 80 cm. long, covered with reddish hairs,<br />
lax. Flowers red.<br />
Fruits ellipsoid, about 2.5 cm. long, glabrous, red and<br />
sweet.<br />
FIELD NOTES Trichoscypha is a medium sized tree growing to<br />
a maximum of eighty feet high and five feet girth. The bole<br />
is generally long and clear with small buttresses; the crown is<br />
small with dense foliage; branches are more or less whorled.<br />
The bark is dark grey and slightly £1akey; slash is brown and<br />
fibrous; small dots of light brown caustic latex appear a<br />
few moments after cutting.<br />
PHENOLOGY Flowers have been recorded in May and ripe fuits<br />
collected from November to May. The tree is evergreen, but<br />
flushes of new dark red leaves appear at the end of the rains.<br />
DISTRIBUTION The tree is found mostly in rain forest, and is<br />
never very common.<br />
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ANNONACEAE<br />
A family of trees, shrubs, and climbers with aromatic<br />
wood BJld leaves. Leaves are alternate, entire and without<br />
stipules. Flowers are mostly hermaphrodite and usually<br />
trimerous. The stamens have very short filaments, often overtopped<br />
by the truncate enlarged connective. Carpels are<br />
usually stipitate in fruit and free.<br />
In addition to the species described in detail the<br />
following members of the family Annonaceae are found in<br />
Sierra Leone:<br />
Xylopia acutifora (Dunal) A.Rich. (fig. 10) is a small tree<br />
with thin leathery leaves and up to ten short, fat, purplish<br />
carpels in a bunch. This is an understorey species found<br />
in rain forest and riverside high bush, and is often confused<br />
with X. quintasii. Flowers have been recorded in April and<br />
December and fruits have been collected in October. It is<br />
called ngele-hewei by Mendes, a name also given to another<br />
species with stilt roots and thin papery leaves which are<br />
greyish-green beneath, and with larger but fewer carpels.<br />
It may be 10 ia rubescens Olive recorded from Liberia<br />
(see fig. 10. It is found in the Gala forest BJld Kambui<br />
Hills.<br />
Xylopia elliotii Engl. & Diels is a small tree recorded from<br />
the north of Sierra Leone in fringing forest but it is<br />
probably more widely distributed. The Mende name gbeloi<br />
(= yellow fever) is a general one which includes also<br />
EnBJltia polycarpa, Polyalthia oliveri, Neostenanthera hamata,<br />
and Isolona campanul.a'ta, All are small trees.<br />
Enantia polycarpa (DC.) Engl. & Diels (fig. 7) is BJl understorey<br />
tree of the rain forest with grey bark, stringy-fibrous<br />
bright yellow slash and yellow wood. The carpels are black,<br />
cylindrical, with red stalks, in large bunches and are found<br />
from November to February. Flowers have been recorded in<br />
November. A decoction of the bark is used to cure ulcers<br />
and jaundice ("yellow fever").<br />
Neostenanthera hamata (Benth.) Exell (fig. 8) has similar<br />
fruits to Enantia but is more widely distributed. Flowers<br />
have been recorded from December to April and fruits in August.<br />
Polyalthia oliveri Engl. (fig. 8) has small globular carpels,<br />
yellowish-white slash and is widely distributed in forest<br />
areas. Flowering has been recorded during April and May and<br />
fruiting in December.<br />
Isolona campanulata Engl. & Diels has a yellow fruit which<br />
is an ovoid tubercular mass of numerous seeds in a yellow pulp,<br />
found from October to January. Flowers have been recorded<br />
from April to November. This species is also widely distributed<br />
in forest areas.<br />
Hexalobus crispiflorus A.Rich., a riverside or swamp tree, is<br />
often confused with Iylopia parviflora. It has larger leaves<br />
and larger yellow flowers with the petals arranged in one<br />
whorl. The bole is fluted at the base. Flowering has been<br />
recorded in February and fruiting in March.<br />
Uvariopsis guineensis Keay is a small tree of the rain forest,<br />
growing up to thirty-five feet high.<br />
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Figure 8. Pachypodanthium staudtii a) Leaves b) Fruit and<br />
section of fruit.<br />
Neostenanthera hamata c) Leaf.<br />
Polyalthia oliveri d) Leaves.
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5c.l'r1s.<br />
Figure 9. Xylopia aetbiopica a)<br />
Xylopia quintasii d)<br />
60'15.<br />
Leaves be) Fruits c)<br />
Leaves ) Fruits.<br />
1><br />
Flower bud.
IOCMS.<br />
Figure 11. Alstonia boonei a) Leaves b) Fruits.
ANNONACEAE - Iylopia<br />
The carpels are borne in bunches of 3-5; each is about<br />
5 cm. long, rather fat, curved and constricted between the<br />
2-4 black seeds which are 1.5 cm. long and have a cupular<br />
aril.<br />
FIELD NOTES X. staudtii is a small to medium sized tree,<br />
occasionally reaching eight feet in girth and ninety feet in<br />
height. The bole is slender, straight and cylindrical with<br />
a distinct axis bearing a small conical crown of whorled<br />
branches. The base has stilt roots and the bole seldom<br />
reaches the ground. The bark is light brown and flakey with<br />
shallow cracks. The slash is thick, soft, stringy-fibrous,<br />
striped yellowish-brown to pink and has a sweet aromatic<br />
scent.<br />
PHENOLOGY Flowers appear during the rains from July to<br />
August and fruits are ripe by October. New leaves are<br />
produced at various times.<br />
DISTRIBUTION The tree has only been recorded from the<br />
Kambui Hills and Bojene Hills and shows a preference for<br />
moist valleys, but is occasionally seen on upper slopes.<br />
In the Neaboi Valley it was the most abundant tree species,<br />
with 600 stems of 2-3 ft. girth and twenty-one of 4-6 ft.<br />
girth per 100 acres. Elsewhere in the Kambui Hills it is<br />
less frequently encountered. In the Dambaye Valley X. staudtii<br />
was the eighth most common weed species and was found in<br />
sixty-five per cent. of the natural regeneration sample plots.<br />
It is resistant to hormone poison but arsenite poison gives<br />
a seventy-five per cent. kill. The tree is often gregarious<br />
and is an important regrowth species in silviculturally<br />
treated areas.<br />
TIMBER The wood is hard, light in colour and weight (31 lb.<br />
per cu. ft. at twelve per cent. moisture content), brittle and<br />
of no commercial value.<br />
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APOCYNACEAE - Funtumia<br />
At the beginning of the century F.elastica, which has<br />
a superior latex to F.africana, was tapped for rubber.<br />
Plantations were established in several parts of the country.<br />
BOTANY Leaves of F.africana are opposite, without pits in<br />
the axils of the lateral nerves, elliptic or elliptic-oblong,<br />
acuminate, 12-28 cm. long, 3.5-12 cm. broad, with 6-12 pairs<br />
of lateral nerves.<br />
Flowers are in dense axillary clusters; flower-buds are<br />
conical, acute; corolla tube 6-8 mm. long, lobes 3-5 mm. long,<br />
overlapping to the right. Corolla fleshy, yellowish to<br />
greenish -white.<br />
Fruits are dry follicles, and seeds are produced into a<br />
plume-like basal beak.<br />
FIELD NOTES Funtumia is normally a small tree, not exceeding<br />
three feet girth and thirty leet in hieght, but occasionally<br />
it grows up to 100 ft. tall and eight feet in girth. The<br />
crown is deep, narrow and dark green; the bole straight and<br />
cylindrical with smooth brown bark, which is normally blotched<br />
with large patches of white lichen. There are numerous lenticels,<br />
most of which are arranged in horizontal rows. The fine even<br />
textured slash, composed of brittle fibres, is green outside and<br />
white inside. There is an abundant flow of white sticky latex<br />
from fresh wounds.<br />
PHENOLOGY The tree is evergreen. Flowering and fruiting<br />
specimens can be found throughout the year, but flowering is<br />
most common towards the end of the rainy season and fruiting<br />
from November to March. The seeds, which are produced abundantly,<br />
are wind dispersed. Follicles open on the trees.<br />
DISTRIBUTION Funtumia is one of the most ubiquitous trees in<br />
the country. It is found in the middle and lower canopies in<br />
forest, (most commonly in young forest), and is an early coloniser<br />
of farm bush. It is not found in savanna.<br />
Enumeration surveys give the following frequencies for<br />
F.africana and F.elastica together:<br />
Forest<br />
Number of trees per 100 acres by<br />
girth classes in feet<br />
2 - 4 4 - 6 6 - 8 8 - 10<br />
Bojene Hills 367 57 2 2<br />
MalaJ. Hills 24 8 0 0<br />
Lalay 710 376 40 0<br />
Bafi Sewa 506 36 2 0<br />
SILVICULTURE Taylor states there are about 650 seeds of<br />
F.elastica per ounce (= 23 per gm.) and the germination period<br />
is approximately twelve days.<br />
Because of its light seed, the tree is well distributed.<br />
It prefers open conditions, but is a very common weed in logged<br />
forest. In Dambaye block the tree was eliminated at the first<br />
poisoning treatment, but at the time of the second poi8oning in<br />
1960 several more had grown up both from seedlings and coppice;
Figure 12. Funtumia af'ricana a) Leaves and flowers b) Fruits<br />
c) Seed.<br />
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Figure 13. Holarrhena floribunda a) Leaves b) Fruits c) Seed.
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Figure 15. Newbouldia laevis a) Leaf b) Flower c) Fruit.
BIGNONIACEAE - SEathodea<br />
DISTRIBUTION Spathodea is common all over the former high<br />
forest areas; it is perhaps most abundant in farm bush and<br />
forest remnants in Port Loko and Bombali Districts, but extends<br />
into savanna areas and is occasionally seen in the rain forest.<br />
The tree is conspicuous from the roadside in many areas and is<br />
occasionally planted as an ornamental.<br />
USES The seed is said to be edible, and the bark to have<br />
medicinal properties. The wood is soft, white, and has no<br />
known uses.<br />
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Figure 16. Spathodea campanulata a) Leaf b) Flower.<br />
Stereospermum acuminatissimum c) Leaf d) Flower.
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Figure 17. Rhodognaphalon brevicuspe a) Leaf b) Fruit.<br />
Bombax buonopozense c) Leaf d) Flower.<br />
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Figure 20. Canarium schweinfurthii a) Part of leaf b) Fruit and<br />
seed.<br />
Santiria trimera c) Leaf d) Young fruits.
Figure 21. Afzelia africana a) Leaf b) Flower c) Pod with one<br />
valve missing, showing seeds.<br />
A.bracteata d) Fruit e) Flower f) Leaf g) Seed.
Santiria trimera (Oliv.) Aubrev, Fig. 20.<br />
BURSERACEAE - Santiria<br />
Vernacular names: !!. Kafei; Te. An-Tha1Jka; !2. Domboe j<br />
Q!. Damzin.<br />
BOTANY Leaves quite glabrous with 2-3 pairs of leaflets,<br />
plus the odd terminal leaflet; lateral leaflets oblongelliptic<br />
or rarely ovate-elliptic, cuneate to obtuse or rarely<br />
rounded at the base, abruptly long-acuminate, 7.5-22 cm. long,<br />
3-9.3 cm. broad, with 6-10 main lateral nerves on each side of<br />
midrib, prominent on both surfaces.<br />
Axillary panicles are quite glabrous up to 13 cm. long;<br />
flowers are yellow in fascicles, or solitary, pedicels 1-7 mm.<br />
long.<br />
Fruits are purplish-black, ellipsoid, flattened, excentric<br />
with the remains of the style on one side; 2-2.5 cm. long and<br />
about 1.5 cm. broad.<br />
FIELD NOTES Santiria is an understorey tree which seldom<br />
grows much taller than seventy feet or exceeds six feet girth.<br />
The crown is not spreading, but is deep and finely branched.<br />
It has many laterally flattened stilt roots and a straight,<br />
slender, cylindrical bole. The bark is normally quite smooth<br />
and grey; slash is thin, hard, gritty-granular and mottled<br />
yellowish-white. The slash and fruits have a turpentine-like<br />
smell. Santiria can be confused with X,ylopia staudtii which<br />
has similar stilt roots and aromatic bark, but Santiria is<br />
distinguished by the pinnately compound leaves. The Kendes call<br />
<strong>So</strong>rindea collina and some other shrubs with thick pirmate leaves<br />
by the same name, kafei.<br />
PHENOLOGY The tree is evergreen. Flowering has been recorded<br />
in September and fruiting in September, November and March.<br />
DISTRIBUTION Santiria has been observed throughout the rain<br />
forests and semi-deciduous forests where it grows in the lower<br />
canopy. It occurs commonly, especially in the smaller size<br />
classes of two feet girth and below.<br />
TDIBER The timber is fine grained and of a very even texture.<br />
It is greyish or brownish-yellow, and is occasionally felled<br />
for carving.<br />
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Jigure 22. tjPhim8S pterooarpoides a) Leaf b) Stipels c ) Leaflet<br />
d Jruit e) Seed f') Part of inflorescence g) Swollen<br />
base of rachis.
Figure 23. Anthonotha fragrans a) Leaf b) Inflorescence<br />
c) Flower d) Fruit.
CAESALPINIACAE - Amphimas/Anthonotha<br />
SILVICULTURE The tree is a common weed in natural regeneration<br />
areas, one or two isolated specimens being able to send windborne<br />
seed over large areas. It is resistant to hormone<br />
poisoning but not to sodium arsenite.<br />
TDmER The sapwood is white; heartwood yellowish-brown, bard<br />
and heavy (50 lb. per ou, :£'t. at twelve per cent. moisture<br />
content) • The grain is fairly straight but is not easy to work,<br />
it finishes smoothly. The wood is susceptible to stain and<br />
borers. The tree was formerly cut but is not now preferred.<br />
Q§!§. The inner bark is chewed as a cough medicine.<br />
Anthonotha fragrans (Bak. f.) Exell &Hillcoat Fig. 23.Plate 4.<br />
Vernacular names: !.2.. Dua1]gulE-i (dua = fear); !2.. Duasane,<br />
In addition to the two species of Anthonotha. described<br />
a further four species have been recorded. A.crassifolia<br />
(Baill.) J. Leonard is a medium sized tree of savanna woodJ.and<br />
with fruit like that of A.fragrans, but leaves are silvery<br />
beneath. A second rain forest species is found in the Golas<br />
described as A. (Hoyle) J. Leonard in F.W.T.A. (P.473),<br />
1vignei<br />
but described as A.e:mlicans (Baill.) J. Leonard by Voorhoave<br />
(P.143) which F.W.T.A. describes as a scandent shrub or small<br />
tree.<br />
A.elongata (Hutch.) J. Leonard, a small branching tree<br />
found only at Pujehun, is the fourth species.<br />
OOTANY Leaves of A.fragrans are paripinnately compound, with<br />
2-5 pairs of leaflets. Leaflets elliptic to oblong with a<br />
shortly acuminate apex or rounded; base rounded; 5-38 cm.<br />
long, 3-14 cm. broad. Petiolules are short and thick.<br />
Branchlets, rhachis, petiolules and under surface of leaves are<br />
densely covered with short rusty brown hairs. There are 12-24<br />
pairs of prominent nerves on each leaflet. The rhachis is up to<br />
35 cm. long.<br />
Flowers are borne on stout, short1y branched panicles up<br />
to 15 cm. in length; the panicles are axillary or more often<br />
from the old wood. The small fragrant flowers have reddishbrown<br />
hairy bracts, one large bilobed yellow petal, four<br />
rudimentary petals and three fertile stamens.<br />
The fruit is a tough oblong swollen pod with a velvety<br />
brown surface covered with prominent anastomosing ridges; it is<br />
up to 12 cm. long, 6 cm. broad and 1.5-3 cm. thick. The pod<br />
contains 1-3 large brown seeds, each about 3 cm. in diameter.<br />
FIELD NOTES A. fragrans is a medium sized to large tree reaching<br />
a rare maximum girth of twelve feet and a height of 140 ft., with<br />
a clear bole of sixty feet, and yields up to 420 HSt. of timber.<br />
Trees up to six feet girth are not buttressed; larger specimens<br />
are variable, having swollen boles with root claws or narrow<br />
buttresses to eight feet high and six feet or more wide. The<br />
crown is dense, dark brown, usually umbrella-like, rounded, but<br />
occasionally elongated when the tree is emergent. The bark is<br />
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CAESALPDUACEAE ... Antho.no tha<br />
greyish-brown to chocolate coloured, somewhat smooth, thin<br />
and soaley, with shallow longitudinal fissures. The slash<br />
is hard, light to reddish-brown, darkening on exposure; the<br />
outer layer is gritty, the inner fibrous, tearing into long<br />
strips. A sticky white juice collects in drops in the slash<br />
after some time.<br />
PHENOLOGY :Flowering has been recorded between November and<br />
May, and fruiting from November to April; fallen seeds have<br />
been collected in May and June. Old fruit may be found<br />
under mature trees all the year. Most trees stand leafless<br />
for a short period, and new leaves are produoed from the end<br />
of November to Januar,y, but occasional leafless trees have<br />
been observed as late as May.<br />
DISTRIBUTION Antho.notha fragrans is relatively oommon in<br />
the rain forest areas of the Eastern Provinoe but is rare<br />
elsewhere. It usually oocurs in widely separated small stands,<br />
each of about 2-5 trees of 5-7 ft. girth, and constituting<br />
1-2 per cent. of the trees over six feet in girth. Enumeration<br />
surveys give the following frequencies:<br />
Forest<br />
Number of trees per 100 acres by<br />
girth classes in feet<br />
2 .. 4 4 - 6 6 - 8 8 - 10 10 ... 12<br />
Bojene Hills 8 16 3 5 1<br />
Lalay 6 0 0 0 0<br />
Tama .0 1 1 0<br />
Gola North (Lower Makpoi) .. 12 1 0<br />
Kambui Hills (Gengelu)<br />
Kambui Hills (Waanje)<br />
12<br />
11<br />
15<br />
14<br />
• Fewer than one tree per 100 acres.<br />
SILVICULTURE Seed is produced frequently and fairly abundantly<br />
but many pods remain closed on the ground; the seed. deteriorates<br />
quickly so that poor germination is the rule. Regeneration is<br />
usually confined to the immediate vicinity of the parent trees.<br />
Formerly favoured in natural regeneration the tree was found in<br />
seventy per cent. of regeneration plots in Dambaye valley, and<br />
in one plot of half' an acre twenty-two stems were found. They<br />
constituted 5.4 per cent. of the regenerated stand and in it<br />
there were fourteen trees over five feet girth per 100 acres.<br />
TIMBER The wood is moderately heavy (40 lb. per eu, ft.),<br />
soft and easily worked, it is white in colour with dark lines.<br />
FOrlMrly taken as a light construction timber, it is not now<br />
out. Log ends become gul1llllY and the sawn wood attracts a<br />
thick layer of surface mould. The wood is not durable. Large<br />
logs often have a spongy brown heart.<br />
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Figure 24. Anthonotha macrophylla a) Leaf b) Fruit c) Seeds.
Figure 25. Berlinia confusa a) Leaf' b) Fruit c) Flower d) Seed.
IOCms.<br />
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Figure 27. Bussea occidentalis a) Part of leaf, showing details<br />
of one pinna. This specimen was unusual in having<br />
opposite leaflets. b) Fruit c) Buds on inflorescence<br />
d) Flower.<br />
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c.<br />
Figure 28. Cassia sieberiana a) Leaf b) Fruit 0) Flower.<br />
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Figure 29. Chidlowia sanguinea a) Leaf b) Fruit c) Flower.
:Figure 31. Crudia senepjalensis a) Leaf b) Fruit.
CAESALPINIACEAE .. Cryptosepalum<br />
Cr.yptosepalum tetrapAyllum (Hook. f.) Benbh, Fig. 32. Plate 6.<br />
Vernacular names: h. Kpavii (= louse, referring to fine<br />
foliage).<br />
IDTANY Leaves paripinnately compound, borne is a zigzag pattern<br />
on slender twigs, each with two pairs of small opposite leaflets,<br />
the upper pair larger than the lower. Upper leaflets are<br />
obliquelY elliptic, obtusely pointed, sessile, up to 5 cm. long<br />
and 2 cm. broad, with the midrib nearer the rhaohas , The leaves<br />
are slightly hairy.<br />
The flowers are white, in short axillary racemes borne on<br />
slender pedicels; each nower has two petaloid white bracteoles J<br />
a single slightly bilobed pinkish-white petal, and three stamens<br />
with purple anthers.<br />
The fruit is a small flat, smooth, suborbicular pod 5-6 cm.<br />
long, 3 cm. broad, containing one or rarely two round seeds<br />
2 cm. broad. The seedling is very like that of Cynometra<br />
leonensis, but the midribs are nearer the inner edge of the<br />
leaflets.<br />
FIELD NOTES CEYptosepalum is a medium sized or occasionally<br />
large tree reaching a rare maximum of twelve feet girth and 120 ft<br />
in height, but is usually six or seven feet in girth and 100 ft.<br />
tall. The bole is long, cylindrical and straight with a crown<br />
of rising branches which bear fine foliage. The base has<br />
pronounced root spurs but no buttress. Bark is smooth, green and<br />
brown due to fine brown horizontally lengthened lenticels, faint<br />
horizontal ridges are often present. The slash is hard, red,<br />
scented, thick and fibrous; it tears and breaks easily, and goes<br />
brown on exposure.<br />
PHENOLOGY Flowers are found from Februaxy to June. The tree<br />
does not flower gregariously and ripe fruits have been recorded<br />
from September to January. The tree is leafless for a short<br />
period at the end of the rains, between October and November;<br />
new leaves are red.<br />
DISTRIBUTION CEYPtosepalum is well distributed in the closed high<br />
forest and extends into the areas of secondary forest and outliers<br />
well into the Northern. Province. Enumeration surveys give the<br />
following frequencies:<br />
Forest<br />
Number of trees per 100 acres by<br />
girth classes in feet<br />
2 ... 4 4 - 6 6 .... 8 8 .... 10 10 ... 12 12+<br />
Bojene Hills 49 34 15 1 1 2<br />
Lalay 20 6 8 0 0 0<br />
Bafi Sewa 15 5 2 0 0 0<br />
Kambui Hills<br />
(Waanje) 130 86 8 2 0 0<br />
Gola North<br />
(E. Wepe) 66 12 2 1<br />
In parts of the Colony Forest Reserve and Gola North,<br />
CEYptosepalum is locally the most frequent species occupying the<br />
upper canopy in the absence of larger trees such as Lophira alata,<br />
Erzthrophleum ivorense and Oldfieldia africana, but with<br />
Heritiera utilise It is often an associate of blia evansii.<br />
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Figure 32. Cryptosepalum tetraphYllum a) Leaves and flowers<br />
b) Fruit•<br />
.£1nometra leonesis c) Leaves and flowers d) Fruit<br />
e) Flower.<br />
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Figure 33. Daniellia thurifera a) Leaf b) Fruit c) Flower.<br />
Daniellia ogea d) Flower.
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IOCMS.<br />
Figure 34. Dialium aubrevillei a) Leaf.<br />
D.guineense b Leaf.<br />
D.dinklagei c Leaf d) Flower.
Figure 35. Didelotia afzelii a) Leaf and inflorescence b) Fruit<br />
c) Flower.<br />
D.idae d) Leaves.
Figure 36. Distemonanthus benthamianus a) Leaf b) Fruit.
Figure 37. a) Leaf b) Fruits
Icm,<br />
IOcms<br />
Figure 38. Guibourtia copallifera a) Leaves and inflorescence<br />
b) Flower c) Fruit.<br />
G.leonensis d) Leaf.
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Figure 39. Kaoue stapriana a) Lear b) Fruit c) Inflorescence.
Figure 41. Strephonema pseudocola a) Leaves and inflorescences<br />
b) Young fruit c) Mature fruit.<br />
Dichapetalum toxicarium d) Leaves and fruit&.
CHA<strong>ILL</strong>EI'IACEAE<br />
A family of small trees and shrubs; leaves are alternate,<br />
simple and with stipules. Flowers are small, mostly hermaphrodite,<br />
actinomorphic or slightly zygomorphic; sepals five,<br />
petals five and mostly two-lobed; stamens five; fruit a drupeo<br />
Dichapetalum toxicarium (G. Don) Baill. Fig. 41.<br />
Vernacular names: Me. Magbe.vii; Te. Ka-Nunk; &. Makpafi,<br />
Koli-tomda; Ko. Magbavi; Cr. Broko-bak,<br />
BOTANY Leaves oblong or elliptic, cuneate at the base,<br />
obtusely acuminate, 10-15 cm. long, 4-6 cm. broad, glabrous.<br />
Axils of main lateral nerves beneath often with small glands and<br />
tufts of hair. Branchlets are hairy.<br />
The inflorescence is a hairy cyme, the lower inflorescences<br />
are often borne on short axillary lateral shoots with small leaves,<br />
hence appearing free from the petioles. Cymes are short and<br />
dense, the peduncle is less than 4 mm. long and flowers at least<br />
4 mm. long; sepals are densely covered with white hairs.<br />
Fruits ellipsoid, 3-4 long and hoary.<br />
FlEW NarES AND DISTRIBUTION Dichapetalum is a small tree<br />
growing to about 50 ft. tall and is found over most of the country<br />
as an understorey species.<br />
PHENOLOGY Flowering occurs mostly in April and fruits mature<br />
in August and September.<br />
USES The pulp round the seed is edible, but the kernel yields<br />
a poison which is sold in Freetown as "Broko-bak" and is used to<br />
destroy vermin.<br />
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Figure 43. Terminalia superba a) Leaves and fruits.
COMBRErACEAE - Terminalia<br />
The following are sample measurements from different plantations:<br />
Location Mean girth M.A.1. girth Planting distance<br />
Age<br />
of plot inches inches feet<br />
Moyamba 20 52 2.60 30 x 30<br />
Moyamba 20 48 2.40 30 x 30<br />
Kenema 10 31.7 3.17 • • ••<br />
Nongowa 16 32.7 2.05 20 x 20<br />
Nongowa 9 24.6 2.73 12 x 12<br />
In wide line plantations at Kasewe seventy-five per cent.<br />
of the trees planted at 30 x 90 ft. (with Afzelia africana and<br />
Nauclea diderrichii between) were over three feet in girth, twenty<br />
years from planting. Heavy emphasis is placed on sufficient<br />
freedom to grow, trees whose crowns overlap quickly stagnate and<br />
are generally incapable of a response to delayed thinning. A<br />
filler crop of shade bearing species between wide lines is not<br />
detrimental to increment.<br />
PESTS Plantation trees are occasionally defoliated just after<br />
flushing by an, as yet, unidentified caterpillar two inches long,<br />
with purplish stripes on its flanks. The trees flush a second<br />
time 2-3 weeks later when a second attack has been known to occur.<br />
A leaf gall is common on plants in the nursery but does not unduly<br />
retard growth. Larger galls often fall in great quantities from<br />
older trees and are known as "male" fruits. Seed collected late<br />
is generally completely spoiled by a borer. Exposed stems have<br />
occasionally been found infested with a ? Cerambycid larva, a<br />
black slimey jelly is exuded from the wounds caused by this insect.<br />
Exposed plantations have been severely damaged by gales which<br />
are a feature of the termination of the rains in late September<br />
and early October; large trees lose the leader and principal<br />
branches, or are occasionally snapped off below the crown; young<br />
trees may be bent out of the vertical plane or blown right over.<br />
Lightning has caused some damage to individual trees with the<br />
leading shoot projecting well above the general canopy. A<br />
pathogen, possibly Armellaria mellea, has killed several isolated<br />
trees at Kasewe and Moyamba.<br />
TIMBER The wood is pale yellow to light brown, moderately hard<br />
and heavy (47 lb. per cu. ft. when fresh, drying to 32-34 lb. per<br />
cu. ft. at twelve per cent. moisture content). It is COarse<br />
textured with a straight grain, fairly strong and easy to work,<br />
and takes a good polish.<br />
In Sierra Leone the wood is used for joinery and general<br />
construction of a light nature. The sapwood is liable to infestation<br />
with pin hole borer and the wood is said to be resistant to<br />
penetration by preservative. Trees of 12-14 ft. girth yield<br />
300-500 H.ft. of timber.<br />
!!.§1f:1 A yellow dye is made from the bark. The juice obtained by<br />
squeezing young leaves is applied to cuts. The bole is used<br />
locally to make a long drum, and for canoes which have a life of<br />
three years. On the coast both T. ivorensis and T. scutifera are<br />
used to make knee pieces for sea going boats.<br />
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EBENACEAE<br />
The family Ebenaceae is represented in Sierra Leone, only<br />
by the genus Diospyros Idnn, It is a family of trees and shrubs;<br />
leaves are nearly always alternate, exstipulate and entire. The<br />
flowers are actinomorphic, usually unisexual, but frequently with<br />
rudiments of the other sex present. The number of floral parts<br />
is very variable and inconsistent both between and within species.<br />
The calyx is united and entire to deeply lobed, always persistent<br />
in the fruit and usually increases in length or thickness. The<br />
corolla is also united, and shortly or deeply lobed, with the tube<br />
often fleshy and constricted at the throat. Stamens are very<br />
variable in number, from two to 100 or more, either inserted on<br />
the corolla or on the receptale. The filaments are often very<br />
short and the anthers end abruptly in a short tip, often two or<br />
more arise from a single filament. The ovary is syncarpous and<br />
styles distinct or joined at the base; the stigmas are usually<br />
large and conspicuous. The fruit is a berry with large seeds<br />
that contain abundant endosperm.<br />
Flowers are grouped in fascicles in the axils of leaves, or<br />
sometimes in very short cymes; they are occasionally cauliflorous<br />
or in short false racemes. Female flowers are often solitary.<br />
The determination of species within the genus is very difficult<br />
but is dealt with fully in the F.W.T.A. and by Aubreville.<br />
The genus Diospyros produces the ebonys of commerce. The<br />
source of the true Gaboon ebony is D. crassiflora Hiern, but this<br />
species is not found in Sierra Leone. Most of our species are<br />
small understorey trees in which the dark heatwood comprises only<br />
a very small central core or may be completely lacking. The<br />
light coloured sapwood is usually rather broad, and the heartwood.,<br />
if it is present, varies in colour from jet black, to brownishblack<br />
or striped. It is widely variable in weight (45-70 lb. per<br />
ou, ft.) but is usually excessively hard and heavy. It is difficult<br />
to work, but finishes smoothly and takes an excellent polish.<br />
The wood is mainly used for turnery and inlaid work but there is<br />
no demand for it in Sierra Leone.<br />
Diospyros is an important weed in natural regeneration.<br />
In Dambaye Block there were 188 stems of one foot girth and over<br />
in fifty-four half acre plots. Hormone sprays are not effective<br />
in killing it, but ninety per cent. success was achieved with<br />
sodium arsenite in Plateau Block.<br />
About forty species of Diospyros have been recorded in West<br />
Africa, ten of which have been found in this country. The<br />
following notes are taken mainly from the F.W.T.A.<br />
D. cooperi (Hutch. & Dalz.) F. White. A tree up to forty feet<br />
high with greenish-brown smooth bark. Mustard-yellow flowers are<br />
borne in clusters on the stem in October and November; the<br />
yellow fruits are ripe in April. It is a widespread species.<br />
D. elliotii (Hiern) F. White. A tree to about forty feet high<br />
with smooth dark brown bark and orange-yellow slash. Flowers are<br />
white and borne on the older parts of the branches below the<br />
leaves, in March or April; the bright orange fruits are mature<br />
in about July. The tree is confined mainly to the semi-deciduous<br />
forests, and can be recognised by the hairy branchlets. .<br />
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EBENACEAE - Diospyros<br />
D. ferrea (Willd.) Bakh, A forest shrub or small tree up to<br />
forty-five feet high with spreading, ascending and arching<br />
branches covered along their whole length with small erect leaves.<br />
The leaves have characteristic lateral nerves which are slightly<br />
prominent beneath in a large web-like arrangement. The young<br />
shoots are densely covered with rusty hairs. The bark is dark<br />
grey and slash black outside and red inside. Flowers are white.<br />
The tree is said to be found in the woods along the sea-shore.<br />
D. gabunensis Gurke (fig. 45). A tree up to sixty-five feet<br />
tall, very similar to D. sanza-minika. The bole is long, straight<br />
and slender, without buttresses; the bark is black, smooth,<br />
brittle and very hard. The slash is black outside and pale<br />
biscuit-brown inside, yellow towards the inner edge. The sapwood<br />
is pale yellow and heartwood sometimes has black veins. Flowers,<br />
which appear in September are fragrant, with blackish-brown calyx<br />
and white corolla. The fruits are ripe in December, and are<br />
sometimes borne on the stem. The tree is found mainly in rain<br />
forests, and is characterised by the dense velvety black hairs on<br />
the branchlets, petioles, calyx and fruits.<br />
D. heudelotti Hiern (fig. 45). A shrub or small tree up to<br />
sixty feet high, sometimes cauliflorous; flowers are white or<br />
pale yellow and appear about November; fruits are yellow or<br />
orange when they ripen early in the new-year. The leaves are<br />
glaucous, and very finely hairy beneath except at the apex where<br />
they are glabrous. The slash is black outside and the wood pink.<br />
This species is wide-spread in Sierra Leone.<br />
D. mannii Hi.erri, A medium sized tree up to sixty feet tall, with<br />
branchlets which are densely covered in brown hairs; leaves are<br />
pale and glaucous beneath. The bark is smooth and hard, black<br />
outside and yellow inside and the sapwood is lemon-yellow. The<br />
heartwood sometimes has a black centre. Fruits, which are ripe<br />
in January, are orange. The tree is more or less confined to the<br />
rain forests.<br />
D. piscatoria Gurke. One of the larger species, growing to ninety<br />
feet high with a long, straight slender bole, often fluted and<br />
sometimes with very small buttresses. The bark is rough and<br />
exfoliates in large scales; the slash black outside and yellOW or<br />
orange inside. The sapwood is white or pinkish, and the heartwood<br />
often black, sometimes with greenish-brown streaks. The tree is<br />
almost glabrous. Flowering has been recorded in April and June<br />
and the fruits, which are dull crimson when ripe, have been seen<br />
in October and January. The tree is most common in the semideciduous<br />
forests and mountains of the north.<br />
D. thomasii Hutcho & Dalz o This is one of the smallest species,<br />
seldom exceeding thirty feet tall. The bark is dark green and<br />
finely fissured and the leaves bluish-grey beneath. Flowers<br />
appear in October and November, and are white; the yellow fruit<br />
is ripe in January. The tree is wide-spread. Branchlets are<br />
sometimes used in making spring-traps.<br />
D. sanza-minika A. Chev. (fig. 45, plate 10). A medium sized tree<br />
to about eighty feet high; it is quite easily recognised by the<br />
black bark which has narrow, but deep longitudinal fissures and<br />
ridges. It is very hard, like glass, and when slashed only a few<br />
chips splinter off. The inner slash is reddish-brown. The bark<br />
is more resistant to decay than the wood and occasionally one<br />
aomes across a hollow cylinder of bark standing in the forest,<br />
which is all that remains of a long-dead tree. The bole is long<br />
and slender, without buttresses. The leaves are greyish beneath;<br />
flowers white and fruits yellow, with a mucilagimous white pulp.<br />
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Figure 41+. Terminalia scutifera a) Leaves.<br />
T.albida b) Leaf.
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Figure 45. DiospyroS sanza-minika a) Leaf b) Fruit.<br />
D.heudelotii. c) Leaves and flowers.<br />
D.8abunensis d) Leaf e) Fruit.
EBENACEAE - Dioapyroa<br />
Flowering has been recorded in April and fruits are ripe in<br />
January. In certain conditions the heartwood may blacken to<br />
ebony. The flexible stems are used for spring and cage traps.<br />
The tree is found mainly in the rain forest.<br />
D. viridicans Hi.er-n, A fairly small tree, up to sixty feet high,<br />
with a straight clear bole and black bark which is smooth at first,<br />
becoming scaley. Fruit, which has been seen in November, is<br />
yellow at first, turning red, then black. The tree has been<br />
recorded only at Njala.<br />
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Figure 46. Ery-throxylum mannii a) Leaves b) Fruit.<br />
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Figure 47. Anthostema senegalense a) Leaves and fruits.<br />
Amanoa bracteosa b) Leaf.<br />
Antidesma laciniatum c) Leaves and young fruits.<br />
Tetrorchidium didymostemon d) Leaves and inflorescences.
ERYTHROXYLACEAE - Erythroxylum<br />
Number of trees per 100 acres by<br />
girth ola.sses in feet<br />
2 - 4 4 - 6 6 - 8 8 - 10 10 - 12<br />
Tonkoli<br />
• • •• 6 1<br />
Kambui Hills<br />
(Plateau) 26 6.8 1 1<br />
Dodo Hills 3 6 1 ..<br />
.. Fewer than one tree per 100 acres.<br />
TIMBER The timber of' Ez:ythro;xylum is similar to that of Guarea.<br />
in appearance. The heartwood is pale brown and even textured<br />
with straight to interlocked grain. A broken stripe or mottled<br />
figure is fairly common. The wood is moderately hard and heavy<br />
(42 lb. per cu. ft. at fifteen per cent. moisture content). It<br />
is characterised by numerous pith flecks.<br />
The tree is normally felled by the sawmills, and is a<br />
popular firewood.<br />
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Figure 48. Bridelia micrantha a) Leaves and young fruits b) Leaf.<br />
B.grandis c) Leaf.
Figure 49. Claoxylon hexandrum a) Leaf and inflorescence.<br />
Discoglypremna caloneura b) Leaf and inflorescence<br />
c) Fruit.<br />
Drypetes aubrevillei d) Leaves and flowers.
Figure 50. H enocardia 1 ata a) Leaves b) Fruits.<br />
Macaranga barteri cLeaves.<br />
M.hurifolia d) Leaf.
Figure 52. Oldfieldia africana a) Leaf b) Fruits c) Seeds.<br />
Phyllanthus discoideus d) Leaves and fruits.
Figure 53. Protemegabaria stapfiana a) Leaf b) Fruit.<br />
Ricinodendron heudelotii c) Leaf d) Fruit.
EUPHORBIACEAE - Uapaca<br />
fissured and scaley, but is sometimes smooth. The slash is<br />
hard, granular outside, more fibrous inside and brittle. When<br />
freshly cut it is yellowish-pink to red, oxidising quickly to<br />
brown; fresh slash is wet with a slightly resinous smell. Only<br />
the be st tree spotters can distinguish between U. guj,ne9nsis and<br />
U. esculenta in the field.<br />
PHENOLOGY Flowering and fruiting are rather irregular and may<br />
occur throughout the year, but the maJority of trees nower about<br />
January and bear mature fruit between June and October. The<br />
tree is evergreen.<br />
DISTRIBUTION U. guineensis is found throughout the rain forests<br />
and semi-deciduous forests of the country, most commonly on<br />
moist sites including seasonal swamps. On moist sites it may be<br />
gregarious. It is frequently associated with U. esculenta, but<br />
is more common than that species. Over quite large areas it may<br />
be the dominant species; for example in the Lower Kakpoi Block<br />
of Gola North Forest Reserve it comprises 17.8 per cent. or all<br />
trees over six feet girth, but in the nearby East Wepe Block only<br />
half a per cent.<br />
Enumeration surveys give the following frequencies of<br />
U, guineensis and U. esculenta combined:<br />
Forest<br />
Number of trees per 100 acres by<br />
girth classes in feet<br />
2 - 4 4 - 6 6 - 8 8 - 10 10 - 12 12+<br />
Kambui Hills<br />
(Plateau) 249 92 32 3 .. ..<br />
Gola North<br />
(Lower Makpoi) .. 86 12 0 0<br />
Tonkoli ., 91 2 .. ..<br />
.. Fewer than one tree per 100 acres•<br />
SILVICULTURE U. guineensis was felled for timber in Sierra Leone<br />
for a few years, but in 1965 was re-classified by the Porestr,y<br />
Department as a weed tree. There are now hundreds of acres of<br />
exploited forest which have received initial regeneration<br />
treatments favouring this species. It is an expensive tree to<br />
kill because if it is to be eliminated successfully, it must be<br />
girdled and poisoned above the stilt roots, which may be high<br />
above the ground; the tree is particularly abundant in the<br />
larger girth classes in many natural regeneration areas.<br />
In the Upper Neaboi sample plot, the M.A.I. of tre9S over a<br />
six year period varied between 0.7 and 1,7 inches in girth on<br />
trees averaging 3-5 ft. girth above buttress,<br />
TI!B!m The wood is reddish to brown with wavy lines, or figures<br />
from the insertion of the stilt roots, with a grain like that of<br />
mahogany, but more open, It is hard, durable, and of medium<br />
density, (47 lb. per ou, ft. at twelve per cent. moisture content).<br />
The tree was felled for several years by the sawmills in<br />
Sierra Leone. The expense of cutting trees with such high stilt<br />
roots and short merchantable boles had made this impracticable<br />
since 1960.<br />
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Figure 54. Ua aca esculenta a) Leaf and flowers.<br />
U.guineensis b Leaf c) Fruit and section of fruit<br />
revealing seed.<br />
U.togoensis d) Leaf.<br />
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Figure 55. Caloncoba il iana a) Leaf b) Flower.<br />
C.echinata c Leaf and fruit.
FLACOURTIACEAE<br />
A family of trees and shrubs with simple alternate leaves,<br />
and deciduous stipules. Flowers are hermaphrodite or more<br />
frequently unisexual, often dioecious or polygamous. Sepals<br />
are not always distinguishable from the petals; petals are<br />
sometimes not arranged regularly in relation to the sepals;<br />
they are large, small or absent. Stamens are numerous,<br />
hypogynous, free, or in bundles opposite the petals. The fruit<br />
is indehiscent, mostly a berry or drupe.<br />
Besides the species described below, the following small<br />
trees have been recorded in Sierra Leone:<br />
Flacourtia vogelii Hook. f.<br />
Lindackeria dentata (Oliv.) Gilg<br />
Oncoba branchyanthera Olive<br />
Oncoba spinosa Forsk.<br />
Caloncoba gilgiana (Sprague) Gilg Fig. 55.<br />
Vernacular names: Me. Kenyei, GenE-i.<br />
Two other species of Caloncoba are found in Sierra Leone.<br />
C. echinata (Oliv.) Gilg (fig. 55) is usually a shrub, sometimes<br />
a small tree found in the understorey of high forest; the<br />
yellowish-orange sea-urchin-like fruits are conspicuous from<br />
January to April. Oil from the seeds is extracted to cure<br />
pustuler eruptions of the skin. C. brevipes (Stapf ) Gilg is<br />
similar to C. gilgiana and is known by the same native names.<br />
BOTANY Leaves of C. gilgiana are hairy, ovate to broadly elliptic,<br />
broadly cuneate at the base, acuminate, 8-18 cm. long, 4-12 cm.<br />
broad and rather thin, with 5-7 pairs of lateral nerves.<br />
Petioles 3-9 cm. long.<br />
Flowers are large and white in short axillary inflorescences.<br />
Sepals three, greenish, 2 cm. long; petals 12-13, about 5 cm.<br />
long; pedicels 1.5-2.5 cm. long. Stamens numerous.<br />
Fruits ovoid, globular, flattened at the apex, sometimes<br />
apiculate 3.5-4.5 cm. long, yellowish-orange.<br />
FIELD NOTES C. gilgiana is normally a small tree but occasionally<br />
grows to about eighty feet tall and 5-6 ft. in girth. The crown<br />
is narrow and dense. The bole is straight, but low-branched; it<br />
is fluted and has narrow plank buttresses up to nine feet, and is<br />
thorny. The bark is greyish-brown with fairly large scattered<br />
lenticels and the slash red and brittle outside, light brown<br />
inside and very fibrous; it has a musky smell. Branches droop,<br />
especially in small trees. The wood is light brown.<br />
PHENOLOGY Flowering has been recorded in August, October and<br />
March, and fruiting in April and May.<br />
DISTRIBUTION The tree is fairly common in the understorey of<br />
high forest.<br />
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GUTTIFERAE<br />
A family of trees and shrubs with resinous juice; leaves<br />
are opposite, simple and without stipules. Flowers are<br />
actinomorphic, unisexual, polygamous or dioecious, rarely<br />
hermaphrodite. Sepals and petals usually 2-6; calyx imbricate,<br />
stamens mostly numerous and collected into bundles opposite the<br />
petals. Fruits sometimes large and globose.<br />
Allanblackia floribunda Olive Fig. 56. Plate 4.<br />
Vernacular names: Me. Njolei or <strong>So</strong>ld (-I£1ii or -de.lii);<br />
£,. Njaili1}; Kor , Mbrembra.<br />
BOTANY The simple opposite leaves are oblong-elliptic, acuminate,<br />
10-25 cm. long and 3.5-8 cm. broad. They are thick and glossy<br />
above, with sixteen or more pairs of lateral nerves, joined by a<br />
marginal nerve, and a stout petiole 1.5 cm. long.<br />
Flowers are unisexual; the male flowers are borne in pairs,<br />
in whorled terminal bunches; they are pinkish-white with five<br />
unequal greenish-pink sepals, five thick pink petals and five<br />
thick bundles of united anthers, opposite the petals. The female<br />
flOwers have a one celled ovary with parietal placentation; they<br />
are borne lower down the branch.<br />
The fruit is thick, spindle shaped and pendulous from a<br />
stout stalk; it is yellowish-brown and lenticellate on the surface,<br />
up to 40 cm. long and 15 cm. across, five-lobed with many large<br />
oily seeds in a clear jelly.<br />
FIELD NOTES Allanblackia floribunda is a small to medium sized<br />
tree reaching eighty feet in height and a rare maximum girth of<br />
eight feet. It has a distinct straight axis and a small crown of<br />
whorled horizontal branches which droop at the ends. The bole is<br />
usually unbuttressed but occasionally has short narrow buttresses<br />
up to three feet high on large trees. The bark is smooth to<br />
scaley, grey to reddish-brown. The slash is hard, brittle-fibrous<br />
with thin layers, pinkish-brown to yellow near the wood; drops of<br />
pale yellow juice appear in the slash. The long pendulous fruit<br />
is often a useful distinguishing feature between this species and<br />
Pentadesma butyracea. The slash of both species is said to smell<br />
of old fish.<br />
PHENOLOGY Flowers are found from April to June, occasionally<br />
later; fruits become conspicuous from August and are ripe by<br />
January or February. The tree is evergreen and new reddish leaves<br />
are seen throughout the rainy season. Trees of 15-20 feet high<br />
are capable of bearing fruit.<br />
DISTRIBUTION Allanblackia is a common understorey tree of the<br />
closed high forest, reaching its largest size in the Gola Forests.<br />
It is often locally abundant as a small pole sized tree in old<br />
farmed areas which formerly carried high forest. In the Gala<br />
Forests there is generally one tree of six feet girth or more per<br />
100 acres, occasionally occurring in small groups, but more often<br />
scattered.<br />
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Figure 57. Garcinia afzelii a) Leaves.<br />
G.kola b) Leaves c) Fruit.<br />
Symphonia globulifera d) Leaves and buds.
GUTTIFERAE - Pentadesma/Symphoni.a.<br />
FIELD NOTES Pentadesma is a medium sized tree, up to ninety<br />
feet in height and eight feet in girth, with a long straight<br />
bole surmounted by a compact crown of whorled horizontal branches<br />
like the spokes of a bicycle wheel. The bole is straight or<br />
with slight butt flares on larger trees. The bark is dark<br />
reddish-brown to black, horizontally and vertically fissured with<br />
rectangular plates. The slash is soft, brittle, pinkish-red and<br />
layered, yellow near the cambium. Drops of yellow juice appear<br />
in the slash shortly after cutting.<br />
PHENOLOGY The flowers usually appear between April<br />
but occasionally as late as September or November.<br />
fall from December to )(ay. The tree is evergreen;<br />
green leaves are seen throughout the rainy season.<br />
and June,<br />
The fruits<br />
new yellowish-<br />
DISTRIBUTION The tree is found; in high. forest and in older farm<br />
bush in forest areas; it is probably more widely distributed than<br />
Allanblackia floribunda. The tree is locally dominant in moist<br />
valleys in Kambui <strong>So</strong>uth Forest Reserve, probably representing<br />
advanced secondary forest following farming on a small scale.<br />
lUsewhere in the high forest it is generally scattered with one or<br />
two trees over six feet girth per 100 acres.<br />
TIJ4BSR The wood is hard and heavy, (about 53 lb. per cu, ft. at<br />
twelve per cent. moisture content), pinkish-red and easily worked.<br />
The tree has occasionally been logged but quantities are small and<br />
the timber has no special applications.<br />
USES Roasted crushed leaves are given to children to relieve<br />
"CQii';'tipation. Though the seeds are edible they have little<br />
reputation.<br />
S;ymphonia tdobulifera Linn. f. Fig. 57.<br />
Vernacular names: !!. Njolei or <strong>So</strong>l&i (-lelii or -de.lii).<br />
BOTANY The simple opposite leaves are oblanceolate, obtusely<br />
acuminate 5-10 cm. long and 2-4 cm. broad. They are leathery,<br />
have short petioles and numerous parallel lateral nerves.<br />
The flowers are borne on long pedicels at the ends of short<br />
shoots, in umbels. The buds are red with folded petals which<br />
are black on the covered part; there are five petals, and five<br />
short mauve sepals. The anthers are yellow, borne in five<br />
bundles of three each on a red staminal tube which is divided at<br />
the top and arches over a thick five-pointed green style.<br />
The fruit is a small globular berry containing one or more<br />
small flattened seeds.<br />
FIELD NOTES Symphonia globulifera is generally seen as a small<br />
to medium sized tree of swamps. It may become a large tree of<br />
ninety feet in height and six feet in girth. The bole is straight,<br />
and narrow, with a distinct axis and a crown of a few whorled,<br />
horizontal branches giving a shallow angular spreading crown.<br />
The bole has stilt roots arched out to six feet from the tree,<br />
and originating 8-10 feet from the ground on large trees. The<br />
bark is greyish-brown and smooth; the slash is thin, yellow,<br />
hard and brittle towards the bark, fibrous towards the wood.<br />
Tiny drops of yellow juice gather rapidly in the slash.<br />
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Figure 58. Mammea af'ricana a) Leaves b) Fruit.
GUTTIFERAE - Symphonia<br />
PHENOLOGY The trees are conspicuous between April and June<br />
with abundant masses of dark red flowers. The fruits are found<br />
from September to November. The tree is evergreen; abundant<br />
new leaves are seen towards the end of the rains.<br />
DISTRIBUTION Symphonia is found as a freshwater swamp tree all<br />
over Sierra Leone, extending in wooded swamps right through the<br />
savanna areas. It is commonly seen in swamps that have been<br />
cultivated and may be capable of coppice regrowth. It is rare<br />
in the high forest.<br />
TIMBER The sapwood is whitish-yellow and heartwood pale reddishbrown,<br />
moderately hard and weighs about 35 lb. per cu. ft. at<br />
twelve per cent. moisture content. The wood is rather coarse,<br />
straight grained and moderately resistant to decay; it works<br />
and polishes well.<br />
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HYPERICACEAE<br />
A family of herbs, shrubs but rarely trees or climbers,<br />
with resinous juice; leaves simple, opposite or verticillate,<br />
often gland-dotted; stipules absent; indumention often<br />
stellate; flowers hermaphrodite, actinomorphic; stamens<br />
numerous, hypogynous, often united into bundles; fruit a capsule,<br />
berry or drupe.<br />
Two small trees are found in Sierra Leone; Harungana<br />
madagascriensis Lam. ex Poir. and Vismia guineensis (Linn.)<br />
Choisy<br />
Harungana madagascariensis Lam. ex Poir. Blood tree. Fig. 60.<br />
Vernacular Names: Me. Mbelii, YOl')goei; Te. Ka-Pel; g. s»,<br />
Yulery, Wowa; Ko , KU1]gbali-kone, SU1}gbali; Sh, Pel-Iv;<br />
!e. Mbei; f!:. Blod-tri, Pam-oil-tik.<br />
BOTANY Leaves opposite, ovate or ovate-elliptic, rounded or<br />
sometimes cuneate or subcordate at the base, acute or shortly<br />
acuminate at the apex, 10-20 cm. long, 6-10 cm. broad, with<br />
rather numerous lateral nerves, which are prominent beneath;<br />
petiole 1.5-2 cm. long.<br />
Flowers very small and numerous in terminal corymbose cymes,<br />
whitish, fragrant, dotted with black glands. Petals hairy<br />
inside. Stamens united into five bundles.<br />
Fruit a drupe with a crustaceous pericarp enclosing the five<br />
pyrenes. Drupes 2-4 seeded.<br />
Most parts of the tree are covered with fine stellate hairs.<br />
FIELD NOTES Harungana is a small tree not usually more than<br />
thirty-five feet in height, but sometimes as tall as fifty feet.<br />
The crown is golden-green, deep and spreading with fine, almost<br />
whorled branches. The bole is often rather angular and forked<br />
low. The bark is rough with very small vertically arranged<br />
scales which flake off easily. Slash is thin, rather wet and<br />
turgid, but will peel off in long strips; when cut a brilliant,<br />
almost florescent orange latex flows abundantly and by it the<br />
tree can always be recognised immediately. It is often infested<br />
with ants. The tree coppices easilyo<br />
PHENOLOGY Flowering begins sparingly in May, reaches its height<br />
in August and September and then tapers off up to about December;<br />
flowering is always very profuse. Fruits are ripe from September<br />
up to January. The tree is usually evergreen.<br />
DISTRIBUTION Harungana is found all over Sierra Leone in young<br />
farm bush. It is usually associated with Trema, Musanga, and<br />
Nauclea latifolia.<br />
TIMBER The wood is orange-red to yellow and can have most<br />
attractive colouring in larger specimens. The tree is not used<br />
commercially because it so seldom grows to a merchantable size.<br />
USES Many medicinal uses have been recorded for Har-ungana , Bark<br />
is boiled and the water drunk as a remedy for jaundice 0 The young<br />
leaves are sometimes used as a medicine for asthma and Dalziel<br />
records that the fruits are occasionally used in cases of<br />
abortion in the belief that the red juice averts bleeding.<br />
The stems are commonly used for house poles.<br />
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5 c:...VY\:j5.<br />
Ic.I'V\,<br />
Figure 60. Sacoglottis gabonensis a) Leaves and inflorescence<br />
b) Fruit.<br />
Harungana madagascariensis c) Leaves and fruits<br />
d) Fruit.
Ceiba oentandra Lower<br />
part of bole. Note<br />
spines and swellIng<br />
above buttresses (see<br />
page 56).<br />
PLATE: 3<br />
Ceiba pentandra A<br />
mature tree about 170ft.<br />
tall growing in farm<br />
bush. Note well<br />
developed buttresses<br />
(see page 56).
Anthonotha fragrans An<br />
except i onally l arge<br />
buttr essed spe c imen ( see<br />
page 68) .<br />
PLATE 4<br />
Al l anbl ack ia floribunda<br />
No t e fine dr oopin g<br />
br-anche s and lar ge<br />
frui ts (s ee page 130) .
Dideloeia idae No te<br />
sLraighL unbueeressed<br />
bol e (see page 88) .<br />
PLATE 6<br />
Cl'ytcosepalwn<br />
cecr a phyl l wn NOL0 root<br />
spurs or "claw" rooes<br />
(see page 79).
ErYLhr ophl eum iv ore ns e<br />
Note t ypi cally t hic k ,<br />
shaggy , pi Lced bar k<br />
(s ee page 90) .<br />
PIAT'. t,<br />
Dis Gemonanthus<br />
benthamianus NOve<br />
t ypic a l l y irregular<br />
bol e (see page 89) .
Ric inodendron heudelotii<br />
A large specimen with<br />
r oot spurs and surface<br />
ro ots (s ee page 123) .<br />
PLATE 11<br />
Uapaca gui neensis<br />
Lower part of t r ee<br />
showing Wi de-spreading<br />
cyl Indr ical stIltr<br />
oots (see page 125) .
Anthocleista nobilis<br />
Note stilt roots.<br />
Sp1rally arranged rows<br />
of spines are vi sibl e<br />
on t he bole (see<br />
page 148).<br />
PLATE 13<br />
Klainedoxa gabonensis<br />
A lar ge s pec imen at a<br />
log- l oad ing site. Note<br />
tuft ed folia ge (s ee<br />
page 142).
Aubrevillea ker st 1ngii<br />
Lower part of bole showing<br />
high convex<br />
buttresses (see<br />
page 169).<br />
PLATE 15<br />
Aubr evi l l ea kersting11<br />
Upper part of bole and<br />
crown showi ng tufted<br />
foliage (see page 169).
Samanea dinklage1 A<br />
small, but typically<br />
Iow-branched specimen.<br />
Note young Brldelia sp.<br />
in the background<br />
(left) (see pages 182<br />
and 112).<br />
PLATE 16<br />
Cathormion altisslmum<br />
Tree on river bank.<br />
Note short bole and<br />
small buttresses (see<br />
page 172).
Parkla bicolor Note<br />
buttresses and<br />
typically bent bole<br />
(see page 177).<br />
PLATE 17<br />
Plptadeniastrum .<br />
a fricanum A tree wIth<br />
l arge buttresses being<br />
felled (see page 180).
Lophira al a ta Bol e<br />
showing t ypi ca lly<br />
scal ey bark (see page<br />
198) •<br />
PLATE 18<br />
Pycnant hus angolensls<br />
Note dist 1nct ax i s of<br />
tree (see page 194) .
Parlnari excel sa<br />
Upper part of bole and<br />
cr own (see page 217).<br />
PLATE 19<br />
Smeathmannla pUbescens<br />
Two large specImens<br />
(s ee page 2(9).
Hannoa klaineana A<br />
mature tree (see<br />
page 248).<br />
PUTE 20<br />
Nauclea dlderrlchl1<br />
Note root spurs and<br />
narrow bark scales<br />
(see page 224).
Fagara macropgylla<br />
Note large woody thorns<br />
(see page :230).<br />
PUTE 21<br />
Mitragyna stipulosa<br />
A tree growing in a<br />
roadside swamp. Note<br />
straight clear bole<br />
(see page 222).
PLATE 2J<br />
Nauclea diderrichil<br />
Note whorled arrangement of fine branches (see page 224).<br />
Tieghemella heckelii<br />
A particularly large moss-covered bole (see page 245).
Her l t l era utl11s Two<br />
large specimens showing<br />
but t ress and stilt -root<br />
devel opment (see page<br />
253) •<br />
PLATE 24
A<br />
Figure 62. Combretodendron macroc um a) Leaves and young<br />
inflorescencesb Fruit.<br />
Napoleona leonensis c) Leaves and flower buds d) Fr.lit.<br />
D
Figure 63. Anthocleista voselii a) Leaf b) Young fruits.<br />
<strong>So</strong>yauxia floribunda c) Leaves and inflorescence.
LOGANIACEAE - Anthocleista<br />
TDIBER .AND USES The wood of all species is white, soft,<br />
perishable and light, (about 26 lb. per cu. ft. at twelve per<br />
cent. moisture content). A decoction of the roots is commonly<br />
taken for oonstipation and also as a cure for gonorrhoea. Dry<br />
fallen leaves are boiled and drunk as a oure for jaundice..<br />
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MELASTOMATACEAE<br />
A family of herbs, shrubs and small trees, wi th opposd,te<br />
branohes. Leaves simple, opposite or verticillate, mostly with<br />
three to nine longitudinally parallel nerves, without stipules.<br />
stamens the same, to double the number of the petals, filaments<br />
free, often geniculate (i.e. bent like a knee). Fruit a oapsule<br />
or berry. Seeds are usually minute.<br />
The family is not of great interest to the forester; the<br />
following small trees have been found in Sierra Leone:<br />
Sakersia africana Hook. f. A tree up to about fifty feet high<br />
which grows in moist places in rain forest. It is characterised<br />
by its bristly branchlets and leaves; the branchlets of the<br />
inflorescence are especially bristly. 1flowers, wi th rose-pink<br />
glabrous petals, are produced in profusion in December and<br />
January.<br />
Memecylon Linn. Several shrubs or small understorey trees in<br />
this genus have been recorded in Sierra Leone but the determination<br />
of species is very difficult without fiowera, which are small<br />
and usually blue in colour and are grouped in small a:xillary<br />
cymes. The genus is distinguished by the ovary which is onecelled<br />
and completely adnate to the calyx-tube; seeds are large,<br />
often solitary and anthers very short, opening by along!tudinal<br />
slit, not a pore as in other genera. In most species the opposite<br />
leaves have three or five prominent long!tudinal nerves. Fruits<br />
are small berries, black or violet in colour. The Mendes call<br />
the various species "samakui", a name which is also applied to<br />
Ouratea spp.<br />
While most species seldom exceed thirty feet high, there is<br />
at least one unidentified species in Sierra Leone, possibly<br />
'M. blakeoides, which quite commonly grows to ninety feet tall and<br />
to five f'eet girth. It has very distinct, but finely fissured<br />
brown bark, and a thin granular reddish slash with horizontal<br />
lines. The tree usually has claw roots, and fiowera are said to<br />
be white.<br />
The f'ollowing species are recorded in the F.W. T. A. for<br />
Sierra Leone:<br />
M, afzelii G. Don<br />
K. aylmeri Hutch. &: Dalz.<br />
:M. normandii Ja.c.-Fel.<br />
M. poLyanthemos Hook. f.<br />
M. laterifiorum (G. Don) Brem,<br />
M. blakeoides G. Don<br />
M. gOlaense Bak. f.<br />
M. cinnamomoides Go Don<br />
'M. fasciculare (Planch. ex Benth.) Naud ,<br />
Kemceylon is regarded as a weed in natural regeneration and<br />
most of' the trees are either f'elled or poisoned.<br />
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MELIACE.AE<br />
8. a. Upper leaflets with 14-20 pairs of main, looped,<br />
secondary nerves averaging much less than 1 cm.<br />
apart, very prominent beneath and strongly sunk<br />
above, making the leaflets look corrugated; intermediate,<br />
weaker nerves absent or very rare<br />
Entandrophragma candollei<br />
b. Upper leaf"lets with only 5-10 pairs of main, looped,<br />
secondary nerves mostly 1 cm. or more apart,<br />
prominent beneath, not much sunk above; intermediate<br />
weaker nerves frequent; hairs rare in the<br />
axils of secondary nerves, sometimes in those of the<br />
their branch-nerves Entandrophragma cylindricum<br />
9. a. Petiole obviously winged or ridged and obviously<br />
f"lattened and broadened, at least in the lower half 10<br />
b. Petiole cylindrical, inconspicuously ridged and<br />
broadened, if at all, only near the base 11<br />
10 0<br />
a. Secondary nerves many, arising at a wide angle and<br />
running straight to near the margin, with intermediate,<br />
weaker, secondary nerves frequent; leaves<br />
quite glabrous Lovoa trichilioides<br />
b. Secondary nerves few, arising obliquely and curving<br />
toward the margin; intermediate nerves absent or<br />
very rare; midrib beneath usually densely :furry,<br />
rarely glabrous or nearly so<br />
Entandrophragma angolense<br />
11 • a. Leaves imparipinnate; leaf"lets usually pubescent,<br />
narrow, the terminal one oblanceolate with a longer<br />
petiolule; secondary nerves 12-20<br />
Trichilia heudelotii<br />
b. Leaves normally paripinnate , glabrous 12<br />
12. a. Leaves very large; upper leaf"lets at least three<br />
times as long as broad, normally much more than<br />
20 cm. long; secondary nerves 10-18 Carap$. prooera<br />
b. Leaves small, upper leaflets less than three times<br />
as long as broad, usually much less than 20 cm.<br />
long; secondary nerves 6-10 Khaya spp.<br />
Key to the Fruit<br />
1 • a. Capsule spherical 2<br />
b. Capsule not spherical 4<br />
2. a. Seeds flat and winged all round Kha:ra spp.<br />
b. Seeds not winged 3<br />
3. a. Axis of fruit persistent in the middle Guarea spp.<br />
b. Axis of fruit not present Trichilia spp 0<br />
4. a. Capsule oblong ellipsoid, strong beaked; seeds<br />
large, roundish, not winged Carapa procera<br />
b. Capsule fusiform or oblong or slightly pear shaped;<br />
seeds winged at one end 5<br />
5. a. Fruit valves dehiscent from the apex first (or from<br />
the apex and base simultaneously in Entandrophragma<br />
cylindricum 6<br />
b. Fruit valves dehiscent from the base first 9<br />
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MELIACEAE - Carapa<br />
6. a. Fruit valves detached from the base along a definite<br />
straight transverse line of separation; capsule<br />
oblong with 5 valves, 10-12 cm. long<br />
Entandrophragma cylindricum<br />
b. Fruit valves remain attached at the base either<br />
strongly or weakly (without a clear, normal line of<br />
separation) 7<br />
7. a. Fruit valves remain interconnected after dehiscence<br />
by a framework of woody veins<br />
Pseudocedrela kotschyi<br />
b. Fruit valves not interconnected after dehiscence by<br />
veins 8<br />
8. a. Columella (thick axis of fruit) fusifonn. Valves<br />
thin, scarcely woody, narrow towards the base,<br />
easily breaking away Entandrophragma candollei<br />
b. Columella club shaped, thicker towards the apex.<br />
Valves very thick and woody, broad at the base,<br />
remaining firmly attached Entandrophragma utile<br />
9. a. Fruit valves fairly thick and woody, at least 12 cm.<br />
long and 5 in number, remaining attached at the apex<br />
and falling united (like a shuttlecock), the<br />
columella remaining naked on the tree; seeds<br />
attached by the seed-end Entandrophra6!a angolense<br />
b. Fruit valves thin and leathery, only 4 or 5 cm. long<br />
and only 4 in number, falling away as above but very<br />
easily breaking apart; seeds attached by the end of<br />
the wing to the apex of the columella<br />
Lovoa klaineana<br />
In addition to the species described below two other<br />
trees in the Meliaceae are worth mentioning:<br />
Ekebergia senegalensis A. Juss. is a spreading savanna<br />
tree up to fifty teet high, it has not been reported from<br />
Sierra. Leone, but is possibly present in the far north.<br />
Pseudocedrela kotschyi (<strong>Sc</strong>hweinf.) Harms is a tree of<br />
the savanna woodlands with grey, crocodile-skin type of bark.<br />
Leaflets mostly 10-12 cm. long, nonnally with a distinctly<br />
wavy or toothed margin; secondary nerves 10-12 pairs, spreading.<br />
lruit a woody capsule 10-12 cm. long, opening at the<br />
apex by :five woody valves which remain :firmly attached at the<br />
base, and interconneoted by fibrous veins after dehiscence;<br />
fruits are held erect on the tree.<br />
Carapa Rrocera DC. Fig. 64<br />
Vernacular names: Me. Kowei, Kovei; h. Ka-Yut, Ka-Kundi;<br />
Xi. Kowo; Cr. KunaI:<br />
- -<br />
BOTANY Leaf pinnately compound with about six pairs of very<br />
variable leaflets, usually elongate-elliptic to oblong, shortly<br />
acuminate, narrowed at the base, each leaflet is up to 30<br />
cm. long and 10 cm. broad with about twelve pairs of secondary<br />
nerves.<br />
!'he inflorescence is a panicle 60 cm. or more long with<br />
white or pink flowers on short lateral branches. Sepals short,<br />
five; petals five, up to 7 mm. long, brownish; staminal tube<br />
white with ten sessile anthers over an orange or red disc.<br />
The fruit is ridged, oblong-ellipsoid up to 15 cm. long,<br />
containing 15-20 hard seeds.<br />
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Figure 64. Carapa procera a) Leaflet b) Part of inflorescence<br />
c) Fruit.
MELIACEAE - Entandrophragma<br />
trees. The slash is variable in colour, generally red, sometimes<br />
light brown with orange fibres or red and white striped; it is<br />
faintly scented.<br />
PHENOLOGY Fruits have been collected in June and :rebruary but no<br />
other phenological records are confirmed. The trees stand leat"less<br />
in the dry season.<br />
DISTRIBUTION Entandrophragma angolense is the most widely<br />
distributed species of the genus in Sierra Leone. It is found at<br />
Baf'odea in Koinadugu District, in the Kuru Hills, Kasewe, Tonkoli,<br />
Kambui Hills, Gola :rorests and the Nimini Hills. Enumeration<br />
surveys (combining this species with E. utile and probably<br />
E. cylindricum) give the following frequencies:<br />
:rorest<br />
Number of trees per 100 acres by<br />
girth classes in feet<br />
2 -4 4 - 6 6 - 8 8 - 10 10 - 12 12+<br />
Nyagoi 11 2 3 6 1 7<br />
Kambui Hills<br />
(Gengelu) 2 1 1 • • •<br />
Tama •• •• 1 1 • •<br />
Dodo Hills 8 4 2 1 2 3<br />
• :rewer than one tree per 100 acres.<br />
The abundance of this tree in the Nyagoi Forest is coincident<br />
with high frequency of Khaya anthotheca. It has been suggested<br />
this indicates that the forest in the area is of some<br />
antiquity. Between four and twenty trees of six feet girth and<br />
over are found per square mile in the Gola North Forest Reserve.<br />
SILVICULTURE Transplants are shaded and mulched during the dry<br />
season and are put out as striplings. E. anfiolense has been<br />
planted at llakeni, Kasewe and elsewhere. Survival is good in<br />
open plantations but growth is scarcely above one inch V.A.I. in<br />
girth. This species is not considered as suitable for taungya<br />
plantations and is not planted at present because, in common with<br />
other trees in the family, it tends to be attached by shoot<br />
borers when grown in open conditions.<br />
E. angolense and E. utile are poorly represented in areas<br />
under natural regeneration, apart from the Nyagoi :rorest, where<br />
the abundance of seed trees has given some fair stands of regeneration.<br />
One tree of two feet girth in the Neaboi sample plot<br />
had a P.A.I. of 1.4 inches girth over a six year period.<br />
There are 2-4,000 seeds per kilogram, the germination<br />
period of fresh seed is about twenty days.<br />
TIMBER llost trees cut in the Gola J'orests fall in the sizes<br />
8-10 feet girth and yield 180-300 H.ft. of timber. A tree of<br />
twenty-seven feet girth yielded 1 ,900 H.ft. of timber in the<br />
Nyagai Forest. The red wood is light (35 lb. per cu , ft. at<br />
twelve per cent. moisture content), fairly hard, it works and<br />
finishes well and has a highly decorative grain. It is favoured<br />
for furniture making.<br />
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Entandrophragma candollei Harms Fig. 65.<br />
Vernacular names:<br />
Trade name: Omu ,<br />
MELIACEAE - Entandrophragma<br />
BOTANY The pinnately compound leaf has 5-9 pairs of leaflets<br />
4-15 cm. long and 2-6 cm. broad, oblong elliptic to obovate,<br />
rounded at the base, unequal with an obtusely pointed apex. The<br />
leaflets are leathery, usually galled, with a wavy edge and 14-22<br />
pairs of well marked lateral nerves which are impressed above.<br />
The flowers are greenish white, petals 8-9 mm. long.<br />
The capsular fruit is about 20 cm. long, 3-5 cm. across with<br />
a rough spotted surface, and 3-10 seeds on each face of the<br />
central column. The frui.t opens from the top; the valves are<br />
thin and narrow at the base; the columnella is narrow, fusiform<br />
and is stalked inside the capsule.<br />
FIELD NOTES and DISTRIBUTION This spacies is only recorded from<br />
Nyagoi Protected Forest where a small stand of very large trees<br />
was found on a rocky slope. The maximum girth is twenty-seven<br />
feet above the buttresses and the trees are up to 140 ft. in<br />
height. Heavy buttresses extend ten feet up the bole and spread<br />
fifteen feet. The bark is dark brown with dark pits about two<br />
inches across, and half an inch deep. The slash is thick, dark<br />
red, granular outside, more fibrous within, not scented.<br />
PHENOLOGY The tree is leafless from October to January or<br />
longer. Flowers appear during this period, and fruits ripen by<br />
the end of September.<br />
TIMBER The wood weighs about 40 lb. per cu, ft. at fifteen per<br />
cent. moisture content.<br />
Entandrophrawna cylindricum (Sprague) Sprague Fig. 65.<br />
Vernacular names: As for E. a.ne;olense.<br />
Trade name: Sapele •<br />
OOTANY The pinnate leaf has 5-9 pairs of opposite or subopposite<br />
glossy leaflets, each oblong to oblong-lanceolate (but<br />
variable in shape), 8-13 cm. long and 3-5 cm. broad. The leaflets<br />
are obtusely acuminate, cuneate to rounded, but unequal at<br />
the base with 6-12 pairs of lateral nerves; venation is closely<br />
reticulate.<br />
The flowers are yellowish-white and unscented. The<br />
flowers of this species are the smallest in the genus, the petals<br />
only 4 mm. long.<br />
The fruit is a small capsule about 10 cm. long with 3-4<br />
seeds on each face. It is short and blunt at both ends; valves<br />
are rather thin, dehiscing from both ends simultaneously or from<br />
the apex first.<br />
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MELIACEAE - EntandrophrawaJGuarea<br />
scented. Orange lichenous patches are not found on the bole.<br />
PHENOLOGY Fruits have been collected from November to February;<br />
flowers are seen in October when the tree loses its leaves. It<br />
stands leafless for several months.<br />
DISTRIBUTION Enumerations have generally confused this species<br />
with E. angolense and possibly E. cylindricum as well. It has<br />
been recorded as present in Kasewe Forest, in Tama as a scattered<br />
tree accounting for 2.5 per cent. by volume of utilisable species,<br />
in Gola North and in the Kambui Hills. A record exists of its<br />
occurrence on Farangbaia Forest Reserve, an enclave in savanna<br />
country.<br />
SILVICULTURE As for Entandrophragma angolense.<br />
TIMBER Similar to that of Entandrophragma angolense but heavier<br />
(42 lb. per ou. ft.). This speoies is said to make a first-class<br />
canoe.<br />
Guarea cedrata (A. Chev.) Pellegr. Fig. 66.<br />
Vernacular names: !!:. Njawa-njilei; !2.. Njila.<br />
Trade name: Guarea.<br />
Another species of this genus is found in Sierra Leone;<br />
Guarea leonensis Hut oh, & DaLa , is an understorey tree of the<br />
Gola Forests whioh grows up to forty feet high with spreading,<br />
drooping branches. The cream ooloured f'lowers are found from<br />
December to April and the fruits are conspicuous from April. It<br />
has thin bark and light slash.<br />
Guarea thompsonii Sprague & Hutch. is a large tree reported<br />
from Liberia and is possibly present in the rain forest area.<br />
This species has a thin, granular yellowish slash with sticky white<br />
to coffee coloured juice. It is difficult to distinguish from<br />
Trichilia heudelotii without the fruit, but the inrolled edges of<br />
the petiole are said to be quite definite.<br />
BOTANY Guarea cedrata has an impipinnately compound leaf with<br />
3-7 pairs of opposite leaflets which are oblong, soarcely tipped<br />
to long acuminate, cuneate or rounded and unequal at the base.<br />
The leaflets are 10-30 cm. long, 4-9 cm. broad, leathery, markedly<br />
reticulate beneath with 16-22 pairs of lateral nerves. Margins<br />
are often undulate.<br />
The fragrant yellow flowers are borne in short axillary<br />
panicles; they have a short four-lobed calyx and four petals<br />
which are longer than the staminal tube.<br />
The fruit is a 3-4-lobed globular reddish, velvety, fleshy<br />
capsule containing up to four seeds.<br />
FIELD NOTES .AND DISTRIBUTION Guarea cedrata is a rare large<br />
tree reaching fifteen feet in girth and 120 ft. or more in<br />
height. It has been reported from the Kambui Hills, Nimini Hills,<br />
in part of the Colony Reserve and in the foothills of the<br />
Loma Mountains.<br />
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MELIACEAE - Lovoa/Trichilia<br />
PHENOLOGY Flowers have been recorded from November to January;<br />
ripe fruits have been collected in March. The tree is leafless<br />
for a short period during April and May.<br />
DISTRIBUTION Lovoa is more widely distributed than the other<br />
Meliaceae timber trees. Eight to sixteen trees over six feet in<br />
girth are generally found per square mile in the Gala Forests.<br />
The tree is present in all rain forest areas and in the semideciduous<br />
forests of Tonkoli and Tama where enumeration surveys<br />
normally show between two and five trees over six feet girth per<br />
100 acres.<br />
SILVICULTURE There are about 16,000 seeds per kilogram. The<br />
seed is rapidly destroyed by seed borers, moulds, etc. and gives<br />
poor germination. The plants are difficult to raise in the<br />
nursery and only limited plantation trials have been attempted so<br />
faro Lovoa accounts for one per cent. of the natural regeneration<br />
in Dambaye Valley, and is found as a pole sized constituent of the<br />
filler crop in wide line plantations of Terminalia ivorensis at<br />
Kasewe.<br />
TIMBER The wood is light (54 lb. per cu. ft. fresh, drying to<br />
35 lb. per cu. ft. at twelve per cent. moisture content), it<br />
works and turns well. The golden-brown wood, streaked with dark<br />
gum lines is very decorative and is used for furniture and<br />
turnery 0 It is often full of small worm holes, and thin joints<br />
tend to be brittle. It is one of the most valuable timber trees<br />
of Sierra Leone and is in great demand.<br />
Trichilia Browne<br />
Trichilia heudelotii Planch. ex Olive (fig. 68), is a<br />
common understorey tree found in all forest areas and in ri.verside<br />
forest outside the high forest belt. It reaches a maximum<br />
height of 60-70 ft. and rarely six feet in girth. The greenishwhite<br />
flowers are found from January to May and the pink fruits<br />
from June. The imparipinnately compound leaf has 4-6 pairs of<br />
opposite leaflets which flush between September and December, they<br />
are 10-20 cm. long, more or less pubescent with appressed hairs<br />
and many curved secondary nerves. The bark is smooth and brown;<br />
slash is thin light brown, striped, darkening on exposure, brittlefibrous,<br />
scented and exudes a little white juice. The bole is<br />
slightly fluted, with small buttresses. The tree is generally low<br />
branched with a wide irregular crown. The ripe seeds are black<br />
with a scarlet aril, on very long stalks; they are used as bait<br />
in bird traps; the bark is used as an additive for raphia wine,<br />
and the Limbas use it to make a red dye. The wood is hard,<br />
reddish-brown, light in weight and fairly durable.<br />
Trichilia prieureana. A. Juss, is a small tree, occasionally<br />
up to sixty feet high, found in the north in forest remnants, in<br />
mountain forest and by rivers. It has a bent, often fluted bole,<br />
with grey-brown flakey bark: and thin fibrous yellowish slash.<br />
The greenish-white flowers are found from January to March and the<br />
pink fruits from March.<br />
Trichilia roka (Forsk.) Chiov. is a small savanna tree with<br />
corky bark, collected once in an unknown location.<br />
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Figure 66. Guarea oedrata a) Leaf b) Young fruits.
MELIACEAE - Trichilia/Turraeanthus<br />
Trichilia martineaui Aubrev. & Pellegr. is a large, very<br />
uncommon tree recorded from Moyamba and Nimini <strong>So</strong>uth Forest<br />
Reserves. It grows to eleven feet in girth and 100 ft. in<br />
height with no buttress and a long clear bole. The bark is<br />
grey, smooth to scaley, with horizontal fissures. The slash is<br />
unpleasantly scented, brown with white spots, fibrous, easily<br />
cut and yields a white guIIUD.Y latex. The flowers have been<br />
recorded in December.<br />
Trichilia lanta A. Chev, is a medium sized tree up to six<br />
feet in girth and 80...100 ft. in height; slightly buttressed with<br />
a long straight bole. The bark is smooth or a little scaley;<br />
slash thin. reddish-brown, sweetly scented, giving a small amount<br />
of yellowish juice. The leaflets have 15-25 pairs of prominent<br />
lateral nerves. Greenish-white flowers have been recorded in<br />
December. The tree is similar to T. heudelotii but is easily<br />
distinguished by the long dense hairs on the petiole and rhachis<br />
and underside of the leaflets. The fruits have longer hairs<br />
among the dense short ones.<br />
Turraeanthus africanus (Welw. ex C. DC.) Pellegr. Fig. 68.<br />
Vernacular names:<br />
Trade name: Avodire.<br />
IDTANY The pinnate leaf has 4-12 pairs of alternate or<br />
subopposite leaflets which are narrowly elongated, slightly<br />
apiculate at apex and unequal at the base. The leaflets are<br />
10-25 cm. long and 3-6 cm. broad with twelve or more pairs of<br />
lateral nerves.<br />
The creall\Y, fragrant flowers are borne on short branched<br />
lateral panicles. Calyx short and cupular, corrolla tube up<br />
to 2 cm. long, five lobed; staminal tube exceeding the corolla<br />
in length with ten sessile anthers; style white. long and hairy.<br />
The fruit is a :f'our valved spherical capsule, yellow when<br />
ripe. containing up to four seeds embedded in a soft pith.<br />
FIELD NOTES This is a rare tree in Sierra Leone, and has only<br />
been recorded :f'rom Kambui <strong>So</strong>uth and Nimini <strong>So</strong>uth Forest Reserves.<br />
It has a large bole up to ten feet or more in girth, it is<br />
swollen but not buttressed. The bole is excessively bent giving<br />
rise to heavy spreading branches, and a rather open crown with<br />
tu:f'ted drooping foliage. It reaches a height of 100 ft. The<br />
bark is pale grey to whitish, vertically fissured and scaley.<br />
The slash is pale yellow, moist, :f'ragrant and brittle-fibrous.<br />
PHENOLOGY The fruits are ripe in August; coIected seed is<br />
often heavily infested with white maggots. It sometimes<br />
germinates inside the capsules.<br />
TIMBER The wood weighs 35 lb. per cu. ft. at fifteen per cent.<br />
moisture content, is pale yellow, strong, tough, works well and<br />
has a pleasant grain. It is very rarely cut by sawmills in<br />
Sierra Leone as the :f'orm is invariably poor and the tree so<br />
uncommon.<br />
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Figure 68. Trichilia heudelotii a) Lear<br />
Turraeanthus africanus b) Part of leaf c) Fruits.
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Figure 70. Albizia adianthifolia a) Part of leaf b) Flowers<br />
c) Fruits j) Flower.<br />
Albizia ferruginea d) Part of leaf e) Fruits<br />
i) Flower.<br />
Albizia zygia f) Part of leaf g) Fruits<br />
h) Flower.
A<br />
/0 ems.<br />
Figure 71. Aubrevillea platycarpa a) Leaf b) Inflorescence<br />
c) Fruit.<br />
Aubrevillea kerstingii a) Leaf.<br />
c
:MDIOSACEAE ... Aubrevillea<br />
Aubrevillea kerstingii (Harms) Pellegr. Fig. 71. Plate 15.<br />
Vernacular names: !!!.. Larygoi.<br />
IDTANY The leaves are bipinnately compound, with 5-12 pairs of<br />
opposite pinnae, each bearing 13-30 pairs of opposite leaflets,<br />
which are narrowly oblong with an oblique base and a rounded or<br />
bluntly pointed apex; the leaflets are 1-3 cm. long, 0.2-1 cm.<br />
broad. The rhachis is 30-50 cm. long and the pinnae 7-20 cm.;<br />
the central ones are the longest. The pinnae and rhachides are<br />
often ridged.<br />
Flowers are similar to those of Piptadeniastrum africanum.<br />
The fruit is a flat, oblong, indehiscent pod 11-16 cm. long<br />
and 2 •.5-4- cm. broad..<br />
FIELD NOTES A. kerstingli is a large tree reaching 120 ft. in<br />
height and fourteen feet in girth above the buttress. The bole<br />
is generally long and straight, with a heavy fork at sixty to<br />
seventy feet and supports a small, spreading, thin crown, with a<br />
lacey appearance due to the nature of the foliage. The bole<br />
always has high narrow convex plank buttresses reaching up to<br />
twelve feet high and spreading ten feet from the bole. The bark<br />
is grey to reddish-brown, thin, horizontally striated with<br />
lenticels, and scaley on large trees. Slash is thin, hard and<br />
light brown outside with white fibres; the inner slash is<br />
yellowish-brown, layered with yellow and white fibres which tear.<br />
The slash has an ammonia...like smell.<br />
PHENOWGY The tree almost becomes leafless ; new leaves replace<br />
the old ones during Octobez: or November. Old leaves turn red<br />
before they fall. Flowering and fruiting occur only very rarely;<br />
flowers are said to appear with the flush of new leaves.<br />
DISTRIBUTION Enumeration surveys give the following frequencies:<br />
Forest<br />
Nyagoi<br />
Tonkoli<br />
(Kindea)<br />
Gala North<br />
(Lower Jlakpoi)<br />
Number of stems per 100 acres by<br />
girth classes in feet<br />
2-4 10 - 12 12+<br />
19<br />
..<br />
..<br />
14<br />
..<br />
A. kerstingii reaches its best development in Nyagoi Protected<br />
Forest; it is rare in the Kambui Hills and the Nimini Hills,<br />
scattered in the Gola Forest but is well represented in the older<br />
sections of Tonkeli. It is not found in farm bush or young<br />
secondar,y forest.<br />
TIlIBER The wood is moderately hard and. heavy, light to dark brown<br />
and striped. The grain is often interlocked, but the wood works<br />
fairly well giving a pleasing striped appearance, not unlike<br />
Entandrophragma. The wood tends to twist in long lengths, and<br />
large trees sometimes have a defective centre.<br />
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8<br />
3<br />
1<br />
2<br />
1<br />
1<br />
1<br />
0<br />
0<br />
1<br />
1<br />
0
Figure 72. Calpocalyx aubrevillei a) Pinnab) Fruit.
Figure 73. Calpocalyx brevibracteatus a) Pinna b) Inflorescence<br />
c) Fruit.
MDlOSACEAE - Newtonia<br />
FIELD NOTES N. duparguetiana reaches a girth of ten feet and a<br />
height of 120 ft., but is generally a medium sized tree. The<br />
bole is straight, forking high up with a compact, rather dense<br />
crown. The bole has angled flanges, with gaps beneath, sinking<br />
into the ground near the bole, but reaching up the bole as fluting<br />
for about eight feet. The bark is smooth, brown with red<br />
1entice1s, and reddish-brown with horizontal striations on the<br />
root flanges. The slash is thin, light brown, granular towards<br />
the bark; white and compact, fibrous and tears into strips near<br />
the wood. Globules of yellow-orange juice appear in the slash at<br />
once. The slash is wet, sticky and has a distinctive ammonialike<br />
smell.<br />
PHENOLOGY Flowers have been recorded in April, September and<br />
October, and fruits between February and May. The tree is<br />
evergreen; new leaves are produced at the end of the rains.<br />
DISTRIBUTION N. duparguetiana is encountered most frequently in<br />
the rain forest as scattered individuals; it reaches its greatest<br />
abundance in the Go1a Forests where it is more frequently<br />
encountered than N. aubrevillei. It is less common in the Kambui<br />
and Nimini Hills and very uncommon in the semi-deciduous forest.<br />
Enumeration surveys give the following frequencies.<br />
Forest<br />
Number of trees per 100 acres by<br />
girth classes in feet<br />
2-4 4-6 6 - 8 8 - 10 10+<br />
Gola North<br />
(E. Wepe) .. .. 12 4 1<br />
Golama North •• • • 1 3 1<br />
Nyagoi 19 6 0 1 0<br />
Kambui Hills<br />
(Gengelu) 12 6 0 0<br />
'"<br />
Fewer than one tree per 100 acres.<br />
SILVICULTURE Growth is slow, measured trees of 2-4 feet girth<br />
in sample plots grow 0.5 inches or less in girth per annum.<br />
TDlBIm The tree was fonnerly accepted as a general construction<br />
second grade timber by sawmills, but is not now preferred. The<br />
wood is hard, moderately heavy (64 lb. per cu, ft. fresh) and is<br />
difficult to work. The relative infrequency of the Newtonia<br />
species renders their use marginal, and only the straightest,<br />
longest stems are currently cut. Trees of 7-8 ft. girth yield<br />
100-140 £'t. of timber.<br />
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5C.MS<br />
e:<br />
Figure 74. Newtonia aubrevillei a) Leaf b) Fruit c) Flower.<br />
N.duparquetiana d) Leaf e) Fruit.
Figure 75. Parkia bicolor a) Leaf b) Fruit c) Inflorescences.
KIKOSACRAE " Pentaclethra<br />
FIELD NOTES Pentaclethra is generalJy short boled, bent and<br />
gnarled with a heaviJy branched wide but compact deep crown, and<br />
leaves clustered in psuedo-whorls at the ends o-r the branchlets.<br />
In the forest it reaches a maximum girth of fourteen feet and a<br />
height of 110ft" The bole is straight or angled" with short<br />
root spurs" or low inconspicuous buttresses. The bark is dark<br />
brown and scaley with large circular lenticels arranged<br />
vertically, they are grey on young trees and branches. The slash<br />
is orange-red, darkening to brown on exposure; it is thiok and<br />
granular towards the bark, brittle-:t'ibrous towards the wood.<br />
PHENOLOGY The fragrant yellow nowers are seen between December<br />
and April. The fruits, which hang downwards, are long in<br />
developing and mature from September onwards and often persist<br />
after the following year's nowers. The tree is brie:t'l.y leaness<br />
between October and December after which the new foliage appears<br />
in conspicuous bronze coloured tufts at the ends of the branches.<br />
DISTRIBUTION Enumeration surveys give the following frequencies:<br />
Forest<br />
Number of trees per 100 acres by<br />
girth classes in feet<br />
2 .. 4- 4-... 6 6.. 8 8.. 10 10 ... 12 12+<br />
Gola North<br />
(Lower Jlakpoi) • • •• 38 2 3 0<br />
Nyagoi 6 5 1 1 0 0<br />
Bojene Hills 10 18 13 3 3 4<br />
Kambui Hills<br />
(Gengelu) 27 29 9 1 • 0<br />
Ba:t'i Sewa 4-5 25 18 11 5 0<br />
• Fewer than one tree per 100 acres•<br />
Pentaclethra is well represented in the rain forest but is<br />
less common in the semi-deciduous forest. In the Lower llakpoi<br />
Block of the Gola North Forest it is the fourth most abundant<br />
tree to Uapaca guinneensis" Parkia bicolor and XYlia evansM,<br />
comprising eight per cent. of the stand over six feet girth. In<br />
the Ba:t'i Sewa forest it is third to Uapaca guineensis and<br />
PiRta4eniastrwn africanum comprising seven and a half' per cent.<br />
of the stand over six feet girth. It shows some preference for<br />
moist sites and is also commonly seen in farm bush and disturbed<br />
land within the high forest zone. It does not extend into<br />
savanna country..<br />
TIlIBlm The sapwood is grey and the heart wood reddish-brown. The<br />
wood is heavy (50 lb. per ou, ft. at twelve per cent. moisture<br />
content), it is moderateJy hard and difficult to work but is<br />
durable and finishes smoothJy. As trees of exploitable size are<br />
generally poorJy shaped or have defective hearts, this species is<br />
of no commeroial importance.<br />
USES The seeds are eaten roasted and are said to expel worms;<br />
they are sometimes used to prepare cooking oil. The bark is<br />
reported to be a fish poison, and the pods, in common with those<br />
of many other species, are used to prepare soap.<br />
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Figure 78. Samanea dinklagei a) Leaves aDi fruits b) Inflorescences<br />
c) Flower.<br />
Cathormion altissimum d) Leaf e) Leaflet.
5cms.<br />
Figure 79. Fruit.
lIIMOSACEAE - Tetrapleura/Xylia<br />
USES The pulp from the pod is used as a fish poison.<br />
Xylia evansii Hutch. Fig. 80.<br />
Vernacular names: Me. Yilei, ?Tegai; Te. Ka-Buryga; Ko. Konja;<br />
Kor. Yale" Koro7].<br />
BOTANY Leaves bipinnately compound with one pair of opposite<br />
pinnae, a large glad is present at the top of the 3-5 cm. long<br />
petiole. On each pinna there are 14-16 pairs of opposite,<br />
sessile, oblong-lanceolate leaflets, 2-9 cm. long and 1-2 cm.<br />
broad. The leaflets have ten or more pairs of lateral nerves<br />
and are dark green above; hairy beneath.<br />
The yellow flowers are borne in pedunculate globUlar heads<br />
2 cm. in diameter.<br />
The fruit is an elastic woody, obovate-elliptic pod,<br />
slightly bent, greyish-brown in colour, up to 20 cm. long and<br />
5 cm. broad containing 4-9 shiny black seeds.<br />
FIELD NOTES Xylia is a medium sized to large tree reaching a<br />
maximum of seventeen feet in girth and 120 ft. or more in height.<br />
The bole is often fluted and bent; in dense forest it is<br />
sometimes free of branches to sixty feet or more. The bole has<br />
large humped buttresses. Young trees have smooth bark but on<br />
older trees it is reddish-brown, rough with thick scales. The<br />
slash is brown to orange-brown, soft and brittle-fibrous. There<br />
are horizontal striations on the buttress wings and horizontally<br />
arranged lenticels.<br />
PHENOLOGY Flowering has been recorded in January and August;<br />
fruits are ripe between January and May but unopened pods may<br />
remain on the tree during the rains. Xylia is leafless for a<br />
short period between November and January.<br />
DISTRIBUTION Xylia is locally abundant in the rain forest on<br />
well drained alluvial sites, and on the upper slopes of hilly<br />
areas where there is deep soil. Elsewhere it is widely disseminated<br />
showing some preference for moist sites. It is most common<br />
in the Gola Forests where it is often the dominant tree over large<br />
areas, e.g. in East Wepe Block one area contained 110 stems of<br />
six feet girth and over, per 100 acres; elsewhere it is not<br />
encountered at all. It is less common and does not reach such a<br />
large size in the KambuiHills,Nimini Hills and in Tonkoli.<br />
Enumeration surveys give the following frequencies:<br />
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jEt> F<br />
\0 ,,"'s<br />
Figure 80. lia evansii a) Pinna b) Fruit c) In£lorescences<br />
d Flower.
MORACE.AE - Antiaris<br />
FJELD NOTES Antiaris can become an emergent tree 150 ft. tall<br />
and over fifteen feet in girth. Trees of twelve feet girth are<br />
common. The crown is rather small and dome shaped; the bole<br />
absolutely straight and cylindrical, and often clear to a great<br />
height (ninety feet or more) so that beautiful logs can be<br />
produced. The bole can either be unbuttressed or have large<br />
plank buttresses, or sometimes root spurs and surface roots.<br />
Buttressed trees are more common in the semi-deciduous forests,<br />
and unbuttressed ones predominate in rain forest. The bark is<br />
grey with large lenticels arranged in vertical rows, and very<br />
superficial vertical fissures showing green underbark. <strong>So</strong>metimes<br />
the bark is distinctly warty, but more often it is smooth. The<br />
slash is thick, cream coloured to light brown, often with lighter<br />
stripes in it, but it oxidises very quickly; the outer slash is<br />
slightly granular, but it is very fibrous and layered inside.<br />
There is a copious flow of cream coloured latex as soon as the<br />
bark is cut, which rapidly turns to the colour of milky tea.<br />
Superficially, a buttressed Antiaris looks very like Ceiba.<br />
PHENOLOGY Antiaris is leafless for a short period between<br />
October and January. Flowers appear just before, or together<br />
with the new leaves. Large numbers of ripe fruits) are found<br />
about March. <strong>So</strong>me of the seed is eaten by birds.<br />
DISTRIBUTION Antiaris is found throughout the forests of<br />
Sierra Leone, but is much more common in the semi-deciduous zone,<br />
where it rarely forms less than three per cent. of the total<br />
number of trees over six feet in girth and may comprise up to<br />
eleven per cent. or more; in the rain forests it never<br />
comprises more than one per cent. of the crop. Antiaris is the<br />
fifth most common tree in Tonkoli; it is often distinctly<br />
gregarious, but may be solitary; it prefers well drained sites<br />
and can often be seen growing on steep rocky slopes. The crown<br />
is usually in the dominant canopy and is often emezgerrt ,<br />
A. africana is the species of semi-deciduous forest and<br />
A. welwitchii the rain forest tree.<br />
Enumeration surveys give the following frequencies:<br />
Number of trees per 100 acres by %of<br />
Forest girth classes in feet Total all<br />
trees<br />
over<br />
6 ft.<br />
2-4 4-6 6-8 8-10 10-12 12+ girth<br />
Tonkoli<br />
(Farewa) .. .. 19 10 1 1 31<br />
Tonkoli<br />
(Kindea) .. 33 23 10 4 70 11.5<br />
Goloma North 2 1 1 1 5 0.8<br />
SILVICULTURE Taylor states that regeneration is prolific but<br />
quickly perishes if it does not have full light. The ripe<br />
fruits are eaten by duikers and monkeys. The seeds are dispersed<br />
by birds and regeneration may be plentiful in secondary forest.<br />
Young trees coppice readily. There are 59 seeds per ounce<br />
(2080 per kg.) and the germination period is about nineteen days;<br />
usually germination is good.<br />
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Figure 82. Chlorophora regia a) Mature leaf b) Juvenile leaf<br />
c) Galled stem after attack of Phytoloma lata<br />
d) Female inflorescence e) Male inflorescence.
Figure 83. Musanga cercropioides a) Leaf b) Young fruits<br />
c) Leaf sheath.
MORACEAE - Chlorophora<br />
The infructescence is up to 8 cm. long, the receptacle of<br />
the female flower becomes fleshy in the fruit, which contains<br />
numerous small brown seeds.<br />
FIELD NOTES Chlorophora will grow to a height of over 150 ft.<br />
with a girth of up to fifteen feet. The crown is usually wide<br />
spreading and dome shaped; younger trees often have steeply<br />
ascending branches and are sometimes almost fastigiate, but they<br />
more often ascend and have drooping ends. The bole is usually<br />
more or less straight and cylindrical, though it may be a little<br />
angular and swollen where old branches have fallen; normally it<br />
is clear to at least seventy feet on large trees. The tree is<br />
unbuttressed, but has root spurs which may become very large and<br />
extend into large surface roots. The spurs sometimes extend<br />
up the stem as fluting. The bark varies from dark brown to black<br />
in the forest, to grey in the open. It is rough and shaggy with<br />
many long loose flakes. Lenticels are numerous and prominent,<br />
and when exposed by a newly fallen flake are almost white in<br />
colour. The slash is rather hard and thick, composed of soft<br />
white fibres in between hard yellow gritty fibres, giving it a<br />
striped appearance. It darkens on exposure and there is a very<br />
plentiful exudation of sticky white latex.<br />
PHENOLOGY C. regia usually flowers between January and March<br />
and the ripe pulpy fruits are found between March and May. The<br />
tree is leafless for about three weeks between October and<br />
February; before the leaves fall they turn yellow. New leaves<br />
are a beautiful fresh light green.<br />
DISTRIBUTION Like Antiaris, Chlorophora is found throughout the<br />
high forests of Sierra Leone, but is more common in the semideciduous<br />
forests, where it normally forms be tween three and four<br />
per cent. of all trees over six feet in girth; it is about the<br />
seventh most common species in Tonkoli. In rain forests the tree<br />
normally forms only half a per cent. of the crop. The tree is a<br />
light demander, and is frequent in farm regrowth, and also occurs<br />
as an isolated tree in the grasslands of Eastern Kono. To some<br />
extent it is reserved when farms are burnt.<br />
Enumeration surveys give the following frequencies:<br />
Forest<br />
Tonkoli<br />
(North-West)<br />
Tonkoli<br />
Dodo Hills 4 1<br />
* Fewer than one tree per 100 acres.<br />
Number of trees per 100 acres by<br />
girth classes in feet<br />
2-4 4-6 6-8 8-10 10-12 12+<br />
26<br />
20<br />
1<br />
6<br />
7<br />
1<br />
SILVICULTURE Chlorophora is a light demander which regenerates<br />
fairly readily in open places. Seedlings resemble those of<br />
Trema guineensis, a very common shrub or small tree which quickly<br />
invades farms.<br />
There are about 406,000 seed per kg. and germination takes<br />
between thirteen and eighteen days. Seedlings grow very slowly<br />
in the nursery.<br />
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2<br />
*<br />
0<br />
1<br />
*
MORACEAE - Chlorophora!Ficus<br />
No satisfactory technique has yet been found for growing<br />
this species in plantations, but where the tree occurs naturally,<br />
even if it is in a plantation of other species, it is normally<br />
encouraged. Growth is reasonably fast; natural regeneration in<br />
plantations at Kasewe gave M.A.I.'s of about 1 0 5 inches over a<br />
period of fifteen years; but regeneration in logged forest in<br />
Neaboi Block averaged M.A.I.'s of only 0.4 inches over six years.<br />
PATHOLOGY A very serious pest of Chlorophora is Phytoloma lata<br />
<strong>Sc</strong>ott, a small gall-bug which attacks the leaves, and in more<br />
serious cases, the leading shoots of young trees causing a<br />
considerable slowing up of growth and deformation.<br />
TIMBER No detailed tests have yet been made on the timber of<br />
C. regia, but it is very similar to that of Co excelsa and is<br />
marketed under the same name, Iroko.<br />
The wood of C. excelsa is hard, strong, well figured and<br />
very durable; yellow when freshly cut, but on exposure to light<br />
it quickly becomes golden-brown. The texture is fairly coarse<br />
but even, with a tendency for the grain to be interlocked; the<br />
sapwood is very narrow and clearly defined. The wood seasons<br />
well, has excellent strength properties, is resistant to fungi<br />
and insects and works fairly well. Deposits of calcium carbonate<br />
tend to occur in the timber in the form of streaks, or sometimes<br />
as considerable lumps. It weighs about 44 1b. per cu. ft. at<br />
twelve per cent. moisture content.<br />
USES Natives uses are many and are described in detail by<br />
Dalziel. Women chew the bark, mixed with cola nuts to dissipate<br />
hunger and the latex is used as a glue. The timber is regarded<br />
as one of the best for canoes and mortars.<br />
At one time the latex was tapped as a rubber adulterant.<br />
Ficus Linn.<br />
About sixty species of fig have been recorded in West Africa<br />
of which the F.W.T.A. records over thirty in Sierra Leone. The<br />
genus is easily recognised when in flower, as the flowers are in<br />
a closed bag-like receptacle, the typical fig, which is hollow and<br />
closed at the top except for a small mouth.<br />
Aubreville describes many of the Sierra Leone species in<br />
detail.<br />
Most species of Ficus are of little economic importance.<br />
<strong>So</strong>me bear figs which are edible. The majority begin life as<br />
epiphytes, the seed being carried by birds. The aerial roots<br />
eventually embrace the stem of the host and in time replace it by<br />
their growth, uniting and forming a compound trunk of an eventually<br />
independant tree. Relatively advanced stages of the process can<br />
be seen in the strangling figs which stand out in farm regrowth.<br />
<strong>So</strong>me species may grow to maturity and even bear fruit before the<br />
aerial roots have established themselves on the ground.<br />
<strong>So</strong>me large trees, such as F. mucoso Welw. ex Ficalho, have<br />
short stout boles which are buttressed and fluted, and have hugh<br />
dense spreading crowns which make them popular shade trees;<br />
other species have stilt roots.<br />
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MORACEAE - Treculia<br />
FIELD NOTES The tree will grow to a height of 150 ft. and ten<br />
feet girth. The crown is rather small and irregular, often<br />
broken in big trees. The bole is not usually buttressed but is<br />
heavily fluted all the way up to the first branches.<br />
After slashing there is an abundant flow of cream coloured<br />
latex. The slash is fairly thick, with brown and white stripes<br />
outside, cream coloured inside and composed of very fine fibres<br />
which when torn across look like threads of silk.<br />
PHENOLOGY Flowering has been observed in January and fruits<br />
are usually ripe at the end of the dry season in l4a.y and June;<br />
the tree is not deciduous but changes its leaves at the end of<br />
the dry season. New leaves are redo<br />
DISTRIBUTION Treculia is never common, but is found<br />
throughout the rain forest and semi-deciduous forest zones.<br />
There are usually 2-4 trees per 100 acres. It is usually<br />
found near river and stream banks, particularly in the semideciduous<br />
zone, and it is never found on sites which become<br />
dry for any length of time.<br />
TIMBER Dalziel describes the heartwood as golden-yellow or<br />
yellow-brown, with very narrow sapwood which is a little paler;<br />
it is very dense, fairly elastic and flexible, rather heavy and<br />
of fine even structure. There are very few records of the tree<br />
being felled•<br />
.!!§!§. The seeds, which taste similar to fresh groundnuts are a<br />
popular food.<br />
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Figure 84. P cnanthus an olensis a) Leaf b) Young fruits.<br />
Coelocaryon sp. c Leaf d) Fruits.
MYRTACEAE<br />
A family of trees and shrubs; leaves are simple, mostly<br />
entire, usually opposite and with glands. Stipules are normally<br />
absent. Flowers are mostly actinomorphic, hermaphrodite or<br />
polygamous by abortion. The calyx-tube is more or less adnate<br />
to the ovary with three or more lobes. Petals 4-5 rarely<br />
6 or 0, inserted on the margin of the disc lining the calyx tube.<br />
Stamens are usually numerous, inserted on the margin of the disc<br />
in one or more series.<br />
The most important trees in this family are the exotic<br />
Eucalyptus species which are being more widely grown in the<br />
country, and Melaleuca leucadendron Linn. has been successfully<br />
employed in reclaiming part of the low lying land round Aberdeen<br />
Cr-eek, The Guava, Psidium guajava Id.nn , is well lmown for its<br />
fruit.<br />
Two genera are found native in Sierra Leone. Eugenia Ldrm,<br />
is recognised by the flowers which are axillary, solitary or<br />
fasciculate, with distinct sepals and petals which fall off<br />
separately. Most species of Eugenia are shrubs or very small<br />
trees.<br />
Syzygium Gaertn. has flowers in terminal cymes; the<br />
calyx is more or less truncate and petals lid-like, covering the<br />
flowers and falling off together.<br />
S. owariense P. Beauv. Benth. is a tree up to fifty feet<br />
high with stilt roots, found in freshwater swamp forest by creeks<br />
and rivers not far from the coast.<br />
S. rowlandii Sprague grows to fifty feet tall and is found<br />
on river banks in forest.<br />
s. guineense (Willd) DCo var. guineense is found in<br />
fringing forest and on streams banks in savanna regions. Its<br />
flowers are often galled.<br />
S. guineense var. macrocarpum Engl. is a small fire-tolerant<br />
savanna shrub or tree.<br />
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OCHNACEAE - Lophira<br />
pores. The grain is interlocked, the texture course, and the<br />
wood extremely hard and heavy (about 83 lb. per cu. ft. fresh<br />
and 60-70 lb. seasoned). It is difficult to season as it shakes<br />
badly and is difficult to work. The wood is very strong and<br />
about the most durable of all in West Africa.<br />
Because of the great durability it is almost exclusively<br />
used in making wooden bridges and for prefabricated buildings in<br />
Sierra Leone. It is also used for fence posts and boat keels.<br />
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OLACACEAE - Strombosia<br />
Pedicels 1.5 mm. long with small bracteoles. Flowers small<br />
and red in leafaxils, disc five-lobed, forming a cap on the top<br />
of the ovary. Flowers are pentamerous, calyx red, petals white,<br />
stamens the same number as petals, anthers not fused to the petals.<br />
Fruit wholly enclosed by the receptable, blackish-purple.<br />
FIELD NOTES Strombosia is a middle storey tree which may grow<br />
to 100 ft. in height and six feet in gorth. The crown is small<br />
and dense; the bole straight, slender and unbranched to about<br />
sixty feet on big specimens, small root spurs are often present.<br />
The bark is usually greyish-green, scaley and spotted with<br />
numerous lenticels. The slash is rather thin, hard and granular,<br />
brown in colour with narrow whitish stripes.<br />
PHENOLOGY Flowering occurs between September and November, and<br />
fruits are ripe from December to March. The tree is evergreen.<br />
DISTRIBUTION Strombosia has been recorded both in the rain<br />
forests and semi-deciduous forests, where it may sometimes grow<br />
large enough to form part of the dominant canopy, but is usually<br />
in the middle canopy. It is a rare tree, at least in the larger<br />
size classes.<br />
TIMBER The following description is for the timber of<br />
S. pustulata Olive which is said to be similar to that of<br />
S. glaucescens.<br />
The thick yellowish sapwood is sharply defined from the<br />
purplish-brown to brown, with purplish streaked heartwood. The<br />
timber is very hard and heavy, (62 lb. per cu. ft. at fifteen<br />
per cent. moisture content), close textured, with fairly straight<br />
grain, resistant to fungi and insects. It saws cleanly, but is<br />
rather flinty across the grain, finishes smoothly and will take<br />
a high polish.<br />
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PAPILIONACEAE<br />
A family of trees, shrubs, climbers and herbs. Leaves are<br />
compound, (often imparipinnate or trifoliolate), or simple,<br />
usually stipulate. Flowers are zygomorphic, usually with five<br />
sepals, five petals and ten stamens. The petals are usually free;<br />
the upper (adaxial) exterior petal forms the standard (vexillum)<br />
and the two lateral petals form the wings (alae) which are more or<br />
less parallel with each other, the lower two petals are interior<br />
and. joined by their lower margins into a keel (carina). Of the<br />
ten stamens, nine are usually united into a bundle, and one is<br />
free. The flowers are very characteristic and have given the<br />
name to the family (Latin: papilio ""' a butterfly).<br />
In addition to the species described in more detail, the<br />
following smaller trees of the family Papilionaceae are also<br />
found:<br />
Millettia zechiana Harms (fig. 89) is a small tree or shrub<br />
common in secondary forests and occasionally in more open areas in<br />
the high forest. It has an imparipinnately compound leaf with<br />
6-8 pairs of leaflets, each 6-12 cm. long and 2.5 cm. broad. The<br />
purple flowers have been recorded from December to April. There<br />
are a number of other Milletia species found in Sierra Leone<br />
including the following which are all known by the Mende name<br />
"t:>lugb&lei":- M. rhodantha Baill. and M. lane-poolei Dunn (both<br />
with small leaflets) and M. Chrysoph)lla Dunn (with three pairs<br />
of leaflets which are silvery beneath • The flexible branches of<br />
these trees are used for hut frameworks. The bark of M. rhodantha<br />
is used as a cough medicine.<br />
Ai'rormosia laxiflora (Berrth, ex Bak , ) Harms is a savanna tree<br />
up to forty feet in height with 9-13 alternate leaflets.<br />
Ostryderris stuhlmannii (Taub.) Dunn ex Harms is a small tree<br />
of the savanna woodland with six pairs of leaflets, and white<br />
flowers which appear in the dry season when the tree is leafless.<br />
It has red sap and yellowish-white scented wood with red streaks.<br />
Lonchocarpus sericeus (Poir.) H.B. & K. is a small tree<br />
found on the coast and on riverbanks, with purple flowers.<br />
Lonchocarpus cyanescens (<strong>Sc</strong>hum.& Thonn.) Benth. is a small<br />
widely cultivated shrub from whose leaves an indigo dye is<br />
obtained.<br />
Haplormosia monophylla (Harms) Harms is a small to medium<br />
sized tree found on moist or swampy land, mainly near the coast.<br />
It has showy blue flowers, scaley bark, brittle-fibrous yellow<br />
slash.<br />
Baphia nitida Lodd. Fig. 88.<br />
Vernacular names: Me. Mbundod ; Te. A-Kam-kant, A-Kam; Ki. Bewo ;<br />
!9.. Bundue ; Kor. ya:bundE..<br />
Trade Name: Camwood.<br />
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A<br />
Figure 88. Er hrina mildbraedii a) Leaf' b) Fruit c) Thorn<br />
d Flower.<br />
E.addisoniae e) Flower.<br />
Baphia nitida r) Leaves g) Seed pod.<br />
F
Figure 89. Millettia zechiana a) Leaf' b) Fruit c) Flower.<br />
pterocarpus santalinoides d) Leaf' e) Young fruit.
f<br />
L Se-MS.<br />
Figure 90. Smeathmannia pubescens a) Leaf b) Flower c) Flower<br />
d) Fruit e) Fruit.<br />
Maesopsis eminii f) Leaves and fruit g) Seed.
Figure 91. Anisophyllea meniaudi a) Leaves and fruit b) Young<br />
inflorescences.<br />
A.laurina c) Leaves d) Fruit.
RHAMNACEAE - Maesopsis<br />
at Kasewe averaged thirty feet in height and the trees were<br />
between twenty-seven and thirty inches in girth. Maesopsis is<br />
being tried as a possible alternative plantation species to<br />
Nauclea diderrichii.<br />
TIMBER The sapwood is light coloured, the heart medium to<br />
reddish-brown with longpores giving the cut surface a decorative<br />
appearance. The wood is soft, light in weight (25-35 Ib per<br />
cu. ft. at twelve per cent. moisture content) and is easy to work.<br />
Provided that it can be successfully treated with preservative,<br />
plantation timber should prove a useful addition to the light to<br />
medium weight general purpose hardwoods available.<br />
USES A strong purgative can be made by soaking the bark in cold<br />
water. The root bark is beaten with clay and used to treat<br />
gonorrhoea.<br />
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Figure 92. Anopyxis klaineana a) Leaves b) Fruit.<br />
B
5c..MS.<br />
Figure 93. Acioa. soabrifalia a) Leaves and inflorescenoe b) Flower.<br />
Parinari aubrevillei 0) Foliage.
13<br />
5c..WV's.<br />
Figure 94. Parinari excelsa (Large leaved variety) a) Leaves<br />
b) Fruit.<br />
P.excelsa (Small leaved variety) c) Leaves d) Fruit.<br />
c
Figure 95. Parinari glabra a) Leaves and inflorescence.<br />
P.macrophylla b) Leaves and fruits.<br />
P.chrysophylla c) Leaf d) Fruit.
ROSACEAE - Parinari<br />
Number of trees per 100 acres by<br />
girth classes in feet %of all<br />
Forest Total trees over<br />
6 ft.girth<br />
2-4 4-6 6-8 8-10 10-12 12+<br />
Tonkoli<br />
Tama.<br />
Golama North<br />
Dodo Hills<br />
• 0<br />
·.<br />
·.<br />
2<br />
·.<br />
• •<br />
8<br />
38<br />
17<br />
3<br />
12<br />
21<br />
12<br />
9<br />
10<br />
5<br />
3<br />
5<br />
3<br />
*<br />
1<br />
1<br />
1<br />
64<br />
33<br />
18<br />
36<br />
8.5<br />
••<br />
3.0<br />
7.2<br />
Kambui Hills<br />
(Plateau) 73 33 19 11 • 1 137 8.5<br />
Kambui Hills<br />
(Neaboi)<br />
123 68 42 12 1 0 246 17.0<br />
Lalay<br />
176 124 24 4 2 4 334 8.3<br />
Eafi Sewa 18 13 17 3 4 2 57 5.5<br />
Gola North<br />
(Lower Makpoi) ·. ·. 21 11 3 0 35 6.3<br />
•<br />
Fewer than one tree per 100 acres.<br />
SILVICULTURE In silvicultural operations prior to 1964 Parinari<br />
excelsa was regarded as a desirable timber tree. Subsequently<br />
it has been relegated to the status of an undesirable as the wood<br />
is hard, silicous, difficult to saw and is perishable. Areas of<br />
high forest regenerated in the Kambui Hills contain a large<br />
proportion of this species, partly representing large trees not<br />
removed during exploitation, and partly the advancement of pole<br />
sized trees and establishment of new regeneration. In Plateau<br />
Block it is the second species to Heritiera utilis forming nine<br />
per cent. of the regenerated stand; in Waanje Block it is third<br />
to Chrysophyllum pruniforme and Uapaca guineensis. It is very<br />
gregarious; up to twenty-five trees of two feet in girth and<br />
above are found in one acre sample plots. Studies have shown that<br />
a dense crop of Parinari excelsa often follows exploitation of<br />
Lophira alata and Erythrophleum ivorense especially on exposed<br />
ridges.<br />
The tree is capable of rapid growth, even when large. Small<br />
trees are able to withstand mutual suppression for some time. In<br />
those areas where Parinari has become dominant future silvicultural<br />
treatment is likely to be expensive. Initial studies have shown<br />
that it is difficult to poison and there is little advance growth<br />
of desirable species present under it.<br />
TIMBER This species was formerly logged. The sapwood is<br />
yellowish-white, the heartwood reddish-brown, hard and heavy (54 lb.<br />
per cu. ft. at twelve per cent. moisture content), difficult to<br />
work and inclined to brittleness. The wood is so silicious that it<br />
blunts saws very rapidly.<br />
USES The fruits are eaten. The bark is boiled to give a potion<br />
ta:k"en to relieve stomach ache. The roasted bark is added to palm<br />
wine to improve the taste.<br />
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5c.MS.<br />
Figure 96. Canthium subcordatum a) Leaves and inflorescence<br />
b) Flower.<br />
Corynanthepachyceras c) Leaves and inflorescence.<br />
Craterispermum laurinum d) Leaf.
apidly darkens on exposure.<br />
RUBIACEAE - Mitragyna!Morinda<br />
PHENOLOGY Flowers have been recorded from November to April<br />
but flowering is irregular. Fruits have been recorded from<br />
January to July. The tree retains its leaves through the dry<br />
season; new pinkish-red foliage is seen throughout the rains.<br />
DISTRIBUTION This species is found only in swamps which do not<br />
completely dry out in the dry season. It occurs all over the<br />
country from the coast to the Guinea border. Occasionally in<br />
the closed high forest it may be found with Nauclea aff.<br />
vanderguchtii and Symphonia globulifera. Mitragyna is found in<br />
all Forest Reserves. Even hilly areas have swampy flushes or<br />
narrow valleys and. there are generally 3-10 trees over six feet<br />
in girth per 100 acres.<br />
The basis of agricultural policy is to utilise all freshwater<br />
swamps for rice farming, and in so far as this policy is successfully<br />
implemented, many stands of Mitragyna have been removed.<br />
The absence of repeated farming allows the regeneration of<br />
Mitragyna if the water table remains suitable. An increase in<br />
the amount of water results in the growth of Raphia species.<br />
A typical stand is more or less even aged and often dates from the<br />
last cultivation, or a change in water regime. Where the trees<br />
are large, regeneration is frequently common but the total basal<br />
area of a stand of this species is much lower than in ordinary<br />
forest, indicating low productivity. Plantations have been made<br />
at Lunsar and Kasewe in swamps but they have not been successful,<br />
survival is poor and growth very slow.<br />
TIMBER The wood is pale brown, rather soft and light in weight<br />
07 lb. per cu. ft. at twelve per cent. moisture content). It is<br />
not resistant to decay but can be impregnated; it works and<br />
machines well and is used for mouldings and on concealed parts of<br />
furniture and joinery. Large trees often have a rotten bole.<br />
Many trees are left in the forest as they tend to be difficult<br />
to extract.<br />
USES The leaves are used for wrapping, particularly for kola-nuts<br />
and agidi, a local meal made from maize.<br />
Morinda geminata DC. Fig. 97.<br />
Vernacular names: Me. Njasui; Te. Ka-Bombo, An-Wanda; Ki. Suka,<br />
<strong>So</strong>ka; Ko , Kadui; Kor. Karlule;-Sh. Gbilgbil-lE-; Lo. B0mb0;<br />
Cr. Brumston.<br />
Morinda is also represented by a small shrub, a climber, and a<br />
second tree, Morinda lucida Benth. in Sierra Leone.<br />
BOTANY The opposite leaves of M. geminata are broadly elliptic,<br />
pointed at the'apex, narrowed at the base; the blade curls onto<br />
the petiole. The blade is 14-20 cm. long, 6-12 cm. broad, curling<br />
at the edge; it is soft and has about seven pairs of lateral<br />
nerves. Branchlets are four angled and stout.<br />
The white flowers are borne in heads on stout axillary or<br />
terminal peduncles, elongate in bud.<br />
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RUBIACEAE - Morinda/Na,uclea<br />
The globular fruit is fleshy, tugid, and reddish at maturity.<br />
FIELD NOTES and DISTRIBUTION Morinda geminata is a small branched<br />
tree up to thirty feet in height, common in young secondary forest<br />
and farm bush. The bark is grey when cut, revealing yellow wood<br />
and very thin slash. It is found all over the country.<br />
PHENOLOGY Flowers are found from December to June; the fruits<br />
from April onwards.<br />
USES A yellow dye is obtained from the wood, roots and bark.<br />
The cut roots are boiled and the liquid mixed with indigo to bring<br />
out the colour. A red dye is obtained from the root bark. The<br />
wood is hard and reputed to be insect resistant.<br />
Nauclea diderrichii (De Wild. & Th. Dur.) Merrill Fig. 98.<br />
Plates 20, 23.<br />
Vernacular names: Me. Bundui; Te. Ka-Tholena; Ki. Ndundo;<br />
Ko , Ndundu-kaima; Kor. Yadunde,Yabanda-yire; .§h. Gbilgbil-Ie.;<br />
Lo. Mbundu; Cr. Bru;S'ton.<br />
Trade name: Opepe.<br />
In addition to the species described Nauclea latifolia Sm. is<br />
a small straggling shrub with edible fruit, found all over the<br />
country in rather open regrowth bush, and in savanna woodland.<br />
Nauclea pobeguinii (Pobeguin ex Pellegr.) Petit has been recorded<br />
from Njala only, as a tree of marshy sites. The leaf has 7-9 pairs<br />
of lateral nerves, a slender petiole and stipules pointed at tip.<br />
BOTANY Nauclea diderrichii has simple, broadly elliptic leaves,<br />
rounded towards the blunt apex, narrowed or rounded at the base;<br />
they are thick, leathery, dark green, 8-12 cm. (or more) long,<br />
4-10 cm. (or more) broad. The leaves of young trees, even up to<br />
sixty feet in height are much larger than the leaves of mature<br />
trees. There are 5-8 pairs of looped lateral nerves, with tertiary<br />
nerves parallel; petiole 1.5-2.5 cm. long; large deciduous<br />
stipules are present, which are rounded at the apex.<br />
The flowers are borne in terminal, solitary balls on short<br />
peduncles, about 3 cm. across.<br />
The fruit is an embossed syncarp, globular, 3 cm. across<br />
orange-brown when ripe, containing numerous minute seeds.<br />
FIELD NOTES Young trees in plantations or in natural regeneration<br />
areas are unmistakeable. The bole is straight, cylindrical with<br />
a distinct axis to the top, the crown is umbrella like, composed<br />
of whorled, near horizontal, branches with long dark green leathery<br />
leaves. Large trees reach twenty feet in girth and 160 ft. in<br />
height; trees of this size however are rarely found nowadays; in<br />
the Gola Forest most are between seven and ten feet in girth. The<br />
bole is generally free of buttress but may have root spurs or a<br />
shallow buttress. The bark is light brown, grey or yellowishbrown,<br />
shallowly fissured with thin scales. The slash is wet,<br />
light brown to yellow turning brown on exposure, medium thick with<br />
hard, rough, rather brittle but long fibres.<br />
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Jr;. oF.<br />
L 5c.rv\5 .J<br />
Figure 98. Nauclea diderrichii a) Leaves and fruit.<br />
Nauclea aff. vanderguchtii b) Crown leaves<br />
c) Leaf from epicormic shoot d) Fruit.<br />
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RUBIACEAE -Nauclea/yangueriopsis<br />
The fruit is a brown embossed ball about 6 cm. across<br />
containing numerous small seeds.<br />
FIELD NOTES The tree is medium sized to large and grows up to<br />
ten feet or more in girth and 120 ft. in height, with an open<br />
crown composed of few heavy branches. The unbuttressed bole is<br />
clear, cylindrical and free of branches to sixty feet. The ground<br />
around the tree is covered with humped pneumatophores (not club<br />
shaped as in Mitragyna stipulosa). The bark is yellowish-grey,<br />
thin, flaking irregularly, often covered in moss; the inner bark<br />
is dark brown. The slash is medium thick, pink to pinkish-brown<br />
with layers of vertical fibres, it is wet and easily cut. The<br />
slash darkens on exposure to reddish-brown.<br />
PHENOLOGY Flowers have not been recorded, the fruits are found<br />
between August and November. The tree is evergreen.<br />
DISTRIBUTION The tree is found by running water in the high<br />
forest, on stream banks or standing in fresh water swamps together<br />
with Mitragyna stipulosa. It occurs in the Kambui Hills, Nimini<br />
Hills, at Kasewe as a small tree, and is common in the Gola<br />
Forests. Two to five trees are frequently found together. Plants<br />
were raised from seed at Kenema in 1937 and planted in baskets in<br />
Dambaye Valley in 1938. They died and subsequent attempts to<br />
raise plants have been unsuccessful.<br />
TIMBER The tree is felled by sawmills; some 5-40 specimens are<br />
found per square mile in the Gola Forests. Trees of seven feet<br />
girth are common and yield 100 H.ft. of timber. The wood is<br />
similar to that of Nauclea diderichii, but lighter in weight, open<br />
pored, light to medium brown in colour, it works fairly well and<br />
is used for general construction.<br />
Vangueriopsis discolor (Benth.) Robyns Fig. 99.<br />
Vernacular names: Me. Toterygei, (= stand opposite); Te. Ka-<strong>So</strong>nko;<br />
xi, Kparyiundu; xe , ?Wusi-kone; §h. Bakrau-Le,<br />
A second species, V. vanguerioides (Hiern) Robyns is very<br />
similar to the species described.<br />
BOTANY Leaves are broadly elliptic 6-14 cm. long and 3-6 cm.<br />
broad, hairy beneath, narrowed at the base, abruptly obtusely<br />
acuminate with 5-8 pairs of lateral nerves, tertiary nerves<br />
parallel. Stipules 1 cm. long, hairy, branchlets also hairy.<br />
Flowers greenish white in lax cymes below the leaves.<br />
Fruit oblique about 1.5 cm. long.<br />
FIELD NOTES V. discolor is a small tree up to forty feet in<br />
height and two feet in girth, of variable habit, sometimes<br />
scrambling, but generally erect. It is found in farm bush over<br />
the main forest area and is sometimes an important weed species<br />
in plantations and natural regeneration areas. It is capable of<br />
rapid growth in open conditions. The bark is grey, thin with<br />
large lenticels, the slash is thin, light to dark brown,<br />
horizontally streaked, with a sweet woody scent; a small amount<br />
of orange sap flows from wounds.<br />
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RUBIACEAE - Van6Heriopsis<br />
PHENOLOGY The tree flowers mainly during April and May but also<br />
in December. The fruits ripen from September to November.<br />
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Figure 100. Fagara leyrieurii a) Leaf b) Young fnlits.<br />
F.macrophylla c) Leaf.
Figure 101. Homalium letestui a) Leaf and flowers.<br />
Fagara rubescens b) Leaflets.<br />
Af'ragaele paniculata c) Leaf and fruit<br />
A
SAMYDACEAE<br />
A family very similar to the Flacourtiaceae, but distinguished<br />
by the constantly hermaphrodite, perigynous flowers which are<br />
mainly provided with persistent petals.<br />
Homalium letestui Pellegr. Fig. 101.<br />
Vernacular names: Me. Koli-gale.i, (k:olei = leopard, galc.i = bone);<br />
Ki. Teinpiando.<br />
Small and medium sized trees in this genus which have been<br />
recorded in Sierra Leone include H. aylmeri Hutch. & Dalz. and<br />
H. smythei Hutch. & Dalz., and two trees of swamp forest:<br />
H. africanum (Hook. f.) Benth. and H. molle Stapf.<br />
BOTANY Leaves of H. letestui are glossy 12-30 cm. long 5-14 cm.<br />
broad, arranged in a regular pinnate way along the branches; they<br />
are very coriaceous with strong tertiary nerves, cordate at the<br />
base, stipules very early caducous. Leaves glabrous, or sparingly<br />
pubescent on the midrib and nerves, but not on the lamina beneath.<br />
Nerves reddish-purple beneath when young.<br />
Inflorescence ornamental, terminal, much branched up to<br />
40 cm. long, shortly pubescent or tomentose; stamens solitary<br />
by each pe tal. Petals the same number as the sepals. Petals<br />
whitish at first, persistent, becoming dry, wine-red and finally<br />
cream coloured, spreading and enlarged in the fruit (5-9 mm). The<br />
receptacle is conical.<br />
FIELD NarES H. letestui will grow to a height of 100 ft. but<br />
is normally a smaller understorey tree not exceeding six feet<br />
in girth and about seventy feet tall. The crown is conical, deep<br />
and fairly wide spreading and looks similar to that of a young or<br />
middle aged Nauclea diderrichii with which it is sometimes confused.<br />
The branches are long, fine, whorled, and droop slightly<br />
at the ends. The bole is slender and whippy, usually not quite<br />
cylindrical, twisted and with a pronouced taper. The bark varies<br />
in colour from light grey to light brown; it is smooth or rough<br />
with a few small fissures and many lenticels and occasional horizontal<br />
bands all the way up ; it is usually blotched with white<br />
lichen. There is often a small buttress. The slash is hard,<br />
brittle and thin with an outer light brown to orange granular<br />
layer and an inner white layer with thick, light brown fibres. A<br />
little clear sap collects in the wounds. The slash and light<br />
coloured sapwood quickly go dark brown on exposure to the air.<br />
PHENOLOGY Flowering has been observed from January to May, but<br />
most trees flower in February and March. Fruiting occurs from<br />
February to June and is more conspicuous than flowering. The tree<br />
is deciduous. Flowering occurs when it is leafless.<br />
DISTRIBUTION Homalium letestui has been recorded in rain forest<br />
and semi-deciduous forest; it only comprises a very samll fraction<br />
of the trees over six feet in girth.<br />
USES The wood is very hard, and is sometimes sawn into boards<br />
by the local people.<br />
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SAPINDACEAE<br />
A family composed of trees, shrubs and climbers, with alternate,<br />
rarely opposite leaves which are simple, one or threefoliolate,<br />
or compound. Stipules are rarely present. Flowers<br />
are actinomorphic or zygomorphic, often much reduced and usually<br />
polygamo-dioecious. Petals usually 3-5 or absent. Disc usually<br />
present, sometimes unilateral. Stamens hypogynous, often eight,<br />
inserted within the disc. Ovules often arillate.<br />
Small trees in genera not dealt with in detail include:<br />
Aporrhiza urophylla Gilg<br />
Deinbollia grandifolia Hook. f.<br />
Lecaniodiscus cupanioides Planch. ex Benth.<br />
Lychnodiscus dananensis Aubrev. & Pellegr.<br />
Placodiscus seudosti ularis Radlk.<br />
Placodiscus riparius Keay Grows on river banks and may be<br />
completely submerged in the rains.)<br />
Placodiscus splendidus Keay<br />
Allophylus africanus P. Beauv. Fig. 102.<br />
Vernacular names: Me. Komi-gluei, (Kami = nasal mucous, gluei =<br />
drive); Te. e.-Futc-te.; KL Pilome, Tarygbe.1Jbe;rybeso; Ko, ?Sasagbenc;<br />
Kor. Donsoyambe; She Nomokihoth-Ie, Nomokuth-le.<br />
BarANY Allophylus africanus is a very variable species which,<br />
according to the F.W.T.A. requires intensive experimental study;<br />
several forms have been described and although some specimens are<br />
intermediate, the forms recorded from Sierra Leone can be distingusihed<br />
as follows:<br />
a. Branchlets, petioles and under-surface of leaflets<br />
long-spreading pilose; forma chrysothrix<br />
b. Branchlets, petioles and under-surface of leaflets<br />
pubescent or puberulous<br />
3. a. Under-surface of leaflets very densely pubescent;<br />
forma subvelutinus<br />
b. Under-surface of leaflets sparingly pubescent or<br />
with tufts along the midrib; forma africanus<br />
The following description is of A. africanus forma<br />
africanus.<br />
Leaves 3-foliolate, petioles up to 6 cm. long; leaflets<br />
toothed, subsessile, sparingly pubescent or puberulous, or with<br />
tufts of hair along the midrib, Central leaflets up to 16 cm.<br />
long and 7.5 cm. broad; venation of leaves prominently reticulate<br />
beneath.<br />
The inflorescence is a raceme with several well developed<br />
lateral branches and small creamy-white, sweet-scented flowers.<br />
Flowers are borne singly or in sessile fasicles along the<br />
inflorescence axis. The flower is irregular in shape with four<br />
sepals, four petals and eight stamens.<br />
Ripe fruits are red, indehiscent, subglobose.<br />
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Figure 102. Allophylus africanus a) Leaf and inflorescence<br />
b) Flower bud.<br />
Blighia welwitschii c) Leaf d) Fruit.<br />
B.sapida e) Leaflets f) Fruit.<br />
f
A<br />
IQc-Wls.<br />
Figure 103. Afrosersalisia afzelii a) Leaves b) Fruit and seed.<br />
Neolemonniera clitandrifolia c) Leaves and young fruit.
SAPINDACEAE - Blighia<br />
DISTRIBUTION Blighia occurs occasionally in the high forest<br />
areas throughout the country. It is most often found in young<br />
secondary forest but is never particularly common, except in the<br />
semi-deciduous forests around Kasewe. The fruit and seeds are<br />
eaten by birds.<br />
TIMBER The sapwood is white and heartwood light brown, fairly<br />
hard and heavy.<br />
USES The seed, and occasionally leaves, and twigs also, are<br />
macerated and scattered in pools and rivers to kill fish. The<br />
wood is used for making pestels and mortars, and sometimes for<br />
building poles.<br />
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L-<br />
10 Cr'I\S<br />
Figure 104. Chrysophyllum albidum a) Leaf.<br />
C. delevoyi b) Leaf.<br />
C.perpulchrum c) Leaf.<br />
e.prunif'orme d) Leaves e) Fruit.<br />
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SAPOTACEAE - Manilkara/Neolemonniera<br />
Manilkara obovata (Sabine & G. Don) J. H. Hemsley Fig. 106.<br />
Plate 22.<br />
Vernacular names: Me. ?Tufei.<br />
BOTANY Leaves broadly obovate, rounded, emarginate or slightly<br />
acuminate at the apex, 6-16 cm. long, 4-8 cm. broad, silky beneath<br />
when young, often glaucous-grey when older with numerous pairs of<br />
obscure lateral nerves; petiole up to 3 cm. long. Leaves in<br />
clusters at the ends of branches.<br />
Flowers with scaley hairs, clustered with the leaves.<br />
Pedicels 1-1.5 cm. long, nearly glabrous; sepals 3 + 3; corolla<br />
with six entire lobes; stamens solitary, opposite each lobe of<br />
the corolla. The corolla lobes have petaloid external appendages,<br />
and there often appears to be three series of petals, as the<br />
staminodes, which alternate with the stamens, are also pataloid.<br />
Fruits red, obovoid, about 3 cm. long containing many seeds.<br />
They are finely hairy and indehiscent.<br />
FIELD NarES M.obovata is variable in habit; it may be a large<br />
tree with a distinct bole up to 100 ft. tall and ten feet in girth,<br />
or only a shrub. Normally in forest, it is a small or middle<br />
sized tree with a small crown of ascending branches, sometimes<br />
almost fastigiate. The bole is straight, slightly fluted at the<br />
base, often unbuttressed, although trees with large buttresses<br />
occur. The bark is rough, with long and deep fissures, grey or<br />
brown, often with white markings. The slash is pale pink to<br />
reddish-brown, fibrous and rather brittle, exuding white latex.<br />
PHENOLOGY Flowers have been recorded from December to May.<br />
DISTRIBUTION The tree is found in small groups along the banks<br />
of streams and wo isolated on rocky hills. It is normally an<br />
understorey tree and has been found in rain forest and semideciduous<br />
forest.<br />
TIMBER The sapwood is pale brown and heartwood reddish or purplebrown,<br />
very hard, tough, and difficult to cut. The wood is fairly<br />
fine grained, finishes smoothly and is durable.<br />
There are no records of the tree being felled in Sierra Leone.<br />
Neolemonniera clitandrifolia (A. Chev.) Heine Fig. 103.<br />
Vernacular names: Me. Gbehen (= bench).<br />
BOTANY Leaves lanceolate-elliptic, acuminate, acute at the base,<br />
7-15 cm. long, up to 5 cm. broad on fertile branches, but sometimes<br />
on sterile shoots up to 35 cm. long and 10 cm. broad;<br />
glabrous with about ten pairs of very indistinct lateral nerves;<br />
petiole 1-3 cm. long. The leaves are arranged in whorl-like<br />
fascicles at the nodes, and are especially clustered at the ends<br />
of branchlets; they are armed with short sharp stipules at least<br />
at the ends of branchlets. The midrib is very prominent on both<br />
surfaces.<br />
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SAPOTACEAE - Omphalocarpum/Tieghemella<br />
stamens in a bundle and the female flowers 5-6 white staminodes<br />
in a bundle opposite each lobe of the corolla.<br />
The fruits are large, depressed globose up to 15 cm. in<br />
diameter and about 4 cm. long, containing many flattened black<br />
seeds.<br />
FIELD NOTES The cauliflorous habit of the tree and the large<br />
fruits make it easily recognisable. The tree grows to about<br />
ninety feet in height and to six feet in girth. The bole is<br />
slender, straight, and unbranched to a eonsiderable height. The<br />
base may be somewhat irregular or fluted, but not buttressed.<br />
The bark is reddish-brown and scaley, with verticle rows of<br />
lenticels. The slash is reddish-brown and fibrous with vague<br />
orange and white streaks. It is thin, but not brittle. Abundant<br />
white sap is produced from wounds. The wood is white.<br />
PHENOLOGY Flowering and fruiting have been recorded from December<br />
to May. The fruits take about a year to mature. The tree is<br />
evergreen.<br />
DISTRIBUTION Omphalocarpum is uncommon and is found mostly in<br />
the rain forests on areas of wet soil, but not in swamps.<br />
Tieghemella heckelii Pierre ex A. Chev. Fig. 105. Plate 23.<br />
Vernacular names: Me. Gofilei, (Go = skin, filei = two, referring<br />
to the two distinct faces of the seed); go Hochaoo ,<br />
Trade name: Makore.<br />
BOTANY Leaves in groups at the ends of branchlets; glabrous,<br />
without stipules, 7-18 cm. long, 3-6 cm. broad with numerous<br />
indistinct lateral nerves; the midrib is prominent beneath.<br />
Leaves obovate or narrowly obovate-elliptic with slender petioles<br />
up to 4 cm. long.<br />
Flowers in the axils of leaves, with long glabrous pedicles<br />
up to 3.5 cm. Calyx with four outer green lobes which are<br />
glabrous outside, and four inner lobes which alternate with these<br />
and are 3 mm. long. Corolla whitish-green with eight entire<br />
lobes. Stamens solitary, opposite each lobe of the corolla;<br />
staminodes petaloid, alternate with the stamens. Corolla-lobes<br />
with petaloid external appendages.<br />
Fruits ovoid, 8-10 cm. diameter, yellow and indehiscent when<br />
ripe with two or three seeds. Seeds 5 cm, long and 3 cm. broad<br />
with a worty testa, two thirds of which is hard and shiny, the<br />
other third, the scar, rough.<br />
FIELD NOTES Tieghemella is the largest and most impressive high<br />
forest tree found in Sierra Leone. Specimens over twenty feet in<br />
girth and 200 ft. in height are not uncommon, but the largest<br />
girth recorded is thirty-eight feet. The following are details<br />
of trees felled in the Gola Forests:<br />
G.B.H.<br />
(ft.)<br />
Length of clear<br />
bole (ft.)<br />
Mid Girth<br />
(f't. )<br />
Volume<br />
(H.ft.)<br />
25 92 19 2,0.30<br />
18 78 14 922<br />
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SGYTOPETALAGEAE<br />
A small tropical West African family which is closely allied<br />
to the Tiliaceae, and distringuished from it by the calyx which<br />
is cupular, very short, entire or slightly toothed.<br />
<strong>Sc</strong>ytopetalum tieghemii (A. Ghev.) Hutch. & Dalz.<br />
Vernacular names: Me. Degbeme-wuli, or -yawii(= gum tree);<br />
Te. Am-Bibia; Ko. Paps.-kone , ?Duek£..<br />
BOTANY Leaves alternate, narrowly oblong-elliptic, acutely<br />
cuneate at the base, long-tailed-acuminate, 4.5-9 cm. long, and<br />
up to 3.5 cm. broad, papery with about five pairs of rather<br />
obscure lateral nerves, and less prominent secondary ones.<br />
Flowers in short axillary recemes; pedicels flattened and<br />
twisted, 3 mm. long; petals several, white 5-6 mm. long.<br />
Fruits woody, ovoid, acute 2 cm. long, ribbed, red when ripe.<br />
FIELD NOTES <strong>Sc</strong>ytopetalum grows to about sixty feet in height,<br />
with girths of up to six feet. The branchlets are said to drip<br />
water, sometime s abundantly in relatively mois t places. The<br />
slash is very gummy.<br />
PHENOLOGY Flowering occurs in March and April and fruits are<br />
ripe in about July. The flowers are fragrant when they open in<br />
the morning; the petals and stamens shrivel and fall the same<br />
evening. The tree is evergreen.<br />
DISTRIBUTION <strong>Sc</strong>ytopetalum is an understorey tree in rain forest<br />
and semi-deciduous forest. It is not very common.<br />
TIMBER According to Dalziel the wood is yellowish or pink-tinged<br />
when fresh, turning grey-brown. It is hard, heavy (about 48 lb.<br />
per cu. ft. at twelve per cent. moisture content) and fibrous.<br />
It is not easy to work and not resistant to decay.<br />
USSS The gum from the wood is used locally as a glue.<br />
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STERCULIACEAE - Heritiera<br />
begin to grow quickly immediately the canopy is opened. Natural<br />
regeneration is usually abundant. In sample plots in Dambaye<br />
Block there were 323 trees in forty-five out of a total of fiftytwo<br />
half-acre blocks. This number represented 12.2 per cent. of<br />
all trees over one foot in girth, and the thirty-one trees over<br />
five feet in girth represented eleven per cent. The tree was<br />
strongly gregarious in sixteen plots, where it should be possible<br />
to get pure stands in the final crop. In Plateau Block Heritiera<br />
was well represented in the regeneration; together with Lophira<br />
it was the most common leading desirable. <strong>So</strong>me trees showed an<br />
M.A.I. of 1.4 inches in girth over a period of sixteen years.<br />
Twisted stems develop quickly unless competing poles of worthless<br />
species are removed early.<br />
ARTIFICIAL REGENERATION In the nursery growth in transplant beds<br />
is somewhat erratic; according to Taylor seedlings can vary in<br />
height from nine inches to three feet, (averaging 1 ft. 4 ins.)<br />
at the end of the first year. Nursery stock is not usually<br />
planted until the end of the second year. Transplanting must be<br />
done under high shade. A white woolly aphid (Psyllid?) sometimes<br />
attacks seedlings in the nursery and may reach epidemic<br />
proportions.<br />
In the Eastern province a few plantations of Heritiera have<br />
been made and indicate that although the survival rate is good,<br />
erratic growth continues unless the plantations are kept<br />
absolutely clean until the canopy has closed.<br />
Details of a carefully tended fifteen year old stand planted<br />
at 10ft. x 10ft., near Panguma, were as follows in 1965:<br />
Mean MAI Total Timber Crown<br />
stems per acre girth girth height height diameter<br />
inches inches feet feet feet<br />
65 31.4 2.1 62 26 20<br />
Largest 40 41.9 2.7 71 26 26<br />
In a plantation made at Pendembu, line planted in 1956,<br />
but later written off because of the high cost of maintenance,<br />
a few trees which managed to get above the natural bush early<br />
had girths of four feet in 1965, giving an M.A.I. of about<br />
five inches.<br />
Close planting is usually reconunended because of the low<br />
crown-diameter ratio.<br />
From 1960-64 Heritiera was planted in seasonal swamps which<br />
occurred in taungya plantations in parts of the Eastern and<br />
<strong>So</strong>uthern Provinces. The tree was found to be very difficult to<br />
establish in these conditions. In Bumpe forest out of a total<br />
of 6,462 trees planted in July 1960, all but 1,580 had died by<br />
the following March.<br />
EXPLOITATION In spite of its rather bad form Heritiera has<br />
accounted for about one fifth of the volume of timber taken into<br />
the mills in the Eastern Province in recent years, and provides<br />
the largest amount of timber of anyone species. Trees of less<br />
than six feet girth are not generally felled because of their<br />
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Figure 110. Nesogordonia papaverifera a) Leaves and fruits.
STERCULIACEAE w Sterculia/Triplochiton<br />
FIELD NOTES The tree is very variable in size, normally small in<br />
savanna regions, but occasionally reaching 100 ft. high and ten<br />
feet girth in high forest. The crown is deep, narrow and dense<br />
and appears golden-green from below; branches are in pseudowhorls.<br />
The bole is usually rather short and has small<br />
buttresses; bark is grey, sometimes fissured and with long<br />
rectangular scales. The sla.sh is thick, light brown with<br />
diamond-shaped markings. It is extremely fibrous and oxidises<br />
on exposure. A little gum exudes from wounds.<br />
PHENOLOGY The tree is lea.fless fo r six weeks to two months<br />
between November and February and while it is leafless the<br />
flowers come out, but flowering may continue after the new<br />
leaves have flushed. Fruits open on the tree.<br />
DISTRIBUTION Sterculia is a light demanding species and is<br />
normally absent from the more advanced secondary forests. It<br />
is rather rare in the rain forest zone but frequent in semideciduous<br />
forests. The tree is an early coloniser and is common<br />
in cocoa farms. It also occurs in savanna and at Bradford is<br />
found in wet swampy soils together with Bombax huonopozense.<br />
Enumeration surveys give the following frequencies:<br />
Forest<br />
Number of trees per 100 acres by<br />
girth classes in feet<br />
2 ... 4 4 .. 6 6 - 8 8 - 10<br />
Malal Hills 353 9 0 0<br />
Bojene Hills 30 8 2 0<br />
Lalay 184 34 6 0<br />
TIMBER The wood is greyish-white or yellow with pinkish heartwood,<br />
becoming brown. It is rather soft and fibrous with a coarse<br />
texture and is not felled by the mills.<br />
!!§!§. The young leaves are edible, and macerated leaves are<br />
sometimes applied as a poultice for boils and other inflamations;<br />
the wood ash is used in soap making. Rope is sometimes made from<br />
the fibrous inner barkQ Dalziel records that in parts of Sierra<br />
Leone fruit follicles, or the seeds alone, are boiled or roasted<br />
and taken for digestive troubles.<br />
Triplochiton selero;vlon K. Sehum. Fig. 112.<br />
Vernacular names: g. Kolio; !E.. Fiya...mho.<br />
Trade names: Obeche, Wawa.<br />
BOTANY Leaves and branchlets glabrous. Mature leaves 5-7-10bed,<br />
5-7-nerved at the base, lobes broadly ovate or triangular to<br />
oblong, obtusely acuminate, lamina averaging 10-15 cm. diameter,<br />
but the leaves of seedlings are larger and more deeply lobed.<br />
Petiole about 3.5 cm. long, stipules present•<br />
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Figure 112. Sterculia tragacantha a) Leaf b) Inflorescence<br />
c) Fruits.<br />
Triplochiton scleroxylon d) Leaf e) Fruit.<br />
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B
Se. W' s<br />
JfD.F<br />
..<br />
A<br />
Figure 113. Trema guineensis a) Leaves and young fruits.
5'c.MS<br />
Figure 114. Vitex micrantha a) Leaf.<br />
Premna hispida b) Leaf.<br />
Vitex rivularis c) Leaf.<br />
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c<br />
A
VIOLACEAE<br />
A family of herbs, shrubs, or very small understorey<br />
trees, with stipulate leaves which are usually alternate and<br />
dentate. The flowers are pentamerous and o:rten zygomorphic<br />
and the anthers have a connective produced beyond the cells.<br />
Rinorea Aubl. is the only genus of interest to foresters.<br />
Thirty-five species are recorded in the F.W.T.A. for West Africa<br />
of which eleven occur in Sierra Leone. The determination of<br />
species is very difficult and cannot be done without flowers.<br />
Most species are found in the lower storey of high forest<br />
growing in deep shade. Few of them grow taller than thirty feet.<br />
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Botanical-Vernacular<br />
Stereospermum acuminatissimum Me. Tombo-lembei (or -lembii), or ,<br />
'Iumbo-Lembei (as for 3pathodea campanulata).<br />
Strephonema pseudocola Me. Degbeme-wuli (or -yawii) as for<br />
<strong>Sc</strong>ytopetalum tieghemii, Kovui (as for Strombosia glaucescens).<br />
Strombosia glaucescens Me. Kovui (as for Strephonema pseudocola).<br />
Strychnos spinosa Me. Kokoi, Ngol o-goko i ; Te , An-Gben; Lo.<br />
Kp», Nguru-gb j Cr. Babu-kalbas.<br />
Symphonia globulifera Me. Njolei or S::>lei (-lelii or -dllii), as<br />
for some other trees in the Guttiferae.<br />
Syzygium guineense Me. Sembei; Te. A-Tint-a-ro-lal.<br />
Syzygium rowlandii Me. Ngaku-wuli (as for certain other plants with<br />
hairy stems), Sagbei (as for Garcinia kola and G.polyalthia)j<br />
Ko. Nyanga-bnej Ko r , Ki urekune; Lo.? Babwe.<br />
Tabernaemontana crassa Me. Kofei (as for Hunteria spp l , Lonii;<br />
Ki. Kafay::>lo; Ko. Kpongbo; Sh. Benfuke-le.<br />
Tamarindus indica Me. Ko romakbs i j Te. Am-Bamp-a-potho, An-Jabs ,<br />
An-Thomb i ; Kor. 'I'ernbe ; Cr. Sawa-tombla.<br />
Terminalia albida Me. Foni-baj i i ; Kor. Wase.<br />
Terminalia glaucescens Kor. Wo.<br />
Terminalia ivorensis Me. Baj i i ; Te. Ka-Ronko; Ki. Basio; Ko. Gbasi;<br />
Kor. Fira-wase; Lo. Bahi; Cr. Ronko.<br />
Terminalia scutifera Sh. Rak-le ras for Lonchocarpus sericeus)j<br />
Cr. Bich-oak. --<br />
Terminalia superba He. Koj aage i ; Te. Ka-Rsn; Ki. Kongo; Ko. Kone;<br />
Kor. Bese, Kumkuribe.<br />
Tessmannia baikiaeoides Me. Fulayindii, Matindii.<br />
Tetrapleura spp Me. Kokondui; Te. Ka-Loma, Ka-Segbdl; Ko. Kokondu;<br />
Cr. Arido.<br />
Tetrorchidium didymostemon Me. SJle-gboli (or -golei); Ki. Nyelo,<br />
? Chayilin; Ko. Feng.Jne; Kor. Wuliyange.<br />
Tieghemella heckelii Me. G::>filei; Ki. H::>chi::>::>.<br />
Treculia africana Me. Genduij Te. A-ryant; Ki. YiJ; Ko. Gbindine,<br />
Kpindine; Lo. Ngendo.<br />
Trema guineens i s Me. Ngamb a-wul i , Ngombe i ; Ki. Samsel.J; Ko. :)mba,<br />
W::>mbaj Lo. Ng::>mba.<br />
Trichilia heudelotii Me. Njawei (as for Guarea leonensis); Te.<br />
Ka-Banker or Ka-Bank8r (as for Lecaniodiscus cupanioides), An<br />
Thape r; Ki. Nsndo; Sh. Tep81-1e; Lo. Nj ago,<br />
Trichoscypha arborea Me. Kpomaluwei; Te. An-Thanka (a group name).<br />
Triplochiton scleroxylon Ki. Kolio; Ko. Fiya-mho.<br />
Uapaca chevalieri Kor. Dombe or Dumbe (as for U.guineensis).<br />
Uapaca esculenta Me. Nja-kondii (as for Il.heude Iot i i J: Ko. Suane<br />
(as for U.guineensis).<br />
Uapaca guineensis Me. Kondii; Te. An-Lil; Ki. Kaango; Ko. Suane<br />
(as for U.esculental; Kor. Dombs or Dumbs (as for U.chevalieril,<br />
Nere-kere (as for U.heudelotii); Sh. Tuo-le; Lo. Kondi.<br />
Uapaca heudelotii Me. Nja-kondii (as for U.esculental; Ki.<br />
Bondilo; Kor. Nere-kere (as for U. guineensisl.<br />
Vangueriopsis discolor Me. Totengeij Te. Ka-<strong>So</strong>nko; Ki.<br />
Kpaniundu; Ko.? Wusi-k::>ne; Sh. Bakrau-le.<br />
Vismia guineensis Me. Mbeli-mbambei (or -hineil, Mbeimbambei;<br />
Te. Am-Pel-pelanj Ki. CholompJmbJ; Ko. Sungbali-kaimaj<br />
Ko r , Konfure; Lo , Mbe:l i-mbamba.<br />
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IBai-kafei<br />
•••<br />
IBaJll<br />
IBala-yotei<br />
Bali-kafei<br />
Bdo-hinei<br />
Beloi<br />
Biminii<br />
Bisimii<br />
Boboi<br />
B;:,boi<br />
Boe.i<br />
Bojei<br />
Bokui<br />
Bongawii<br />
Bovui<br />
Bovui-hinei<br />
Bui<br />
Bundui<br />
Bunei<br />
Bunjii<br />
Dama-kpavii<br />
Degbeme-wuli (or - yawii)<br />
D6mii<br />
Dengi.L<br />
D:Jowi<br />
Duangulzd.<br />
Faa or Fa-wuli<br />
Fagbanjui or Fagbanjoi<br />
Fagbanjui-hinei<br />
Fakaiwuli<br />
Fawei<br />
Fe.v&i<br />
F.Jf:Ji<br />
Folo-kpakpei<br />
Foni-bajii<br />
Foni-lawei<br />
Foni-lugbei<br />
Fui<br />
Fulayindii<br />
Fulo-kp;:'kpoi<br />
Gano-kpakpei<br />
Gba<br />
Gbadue..i<br />
Gbagbenye.moi<br />
Gbagbolei<br />
Gbajinei<br />
Gbarygbei<br />
Gbatui<br />
Gba-wuli<br />
Gbehen<br />
Gbe..lt:-tii<br />
Gbeloi<br />
Gbcze..i<br />
Gbesei-kai<br />
Gb e.sei-manii<br />
Gbewei<br />
MENDE<br />
See under Kafei<br />
Terminalia invorensis<br />
Rothmannia megalostigma<br />
See under Kafei<br />
Enantia polycarpa<br />
Various small Annonaceae<br />
Erythroxylum mannii<br />
?Pseudocedrella kotschyi<br />
Funtumia spp<br />
Irvingia gabonensis<br />
Mitragyna stipulosa<br />
Brachystegia leonensis<br />
Lindackeria dentata<br />
Leptaulus daphnoides<br />
Hannoa klaineana<br />
Discoplypremna caloneura<br />
Ongokea gore<br />
<strong>Sc</strong>ottellia coriacea<br />
Nauclea diderrichii<br />
Cola lateritia var. maclaudi<br />
Chrysophyllum perpulchrum<br />
Cynometra leonensis<br />
<strong>Sc</strong>ytopetalum tieghemii<br />
Strephonema pseudocola<br />
Crudia senegalensis<br />
Rhizophora racemosa<br />
Pseudospondias microcarpa<br />
Anthonotha fragrans<br />
Chrysophyllum delevoyi<br />
Pentaclethra macrophylla<br />
Hymenocardia spp<br />
Ochna spp<br />
?Polyalthia oliveri<br />
Pentaclethra macrophylla<br />
Vitex micrantha<br />
Myrianthus spp<br />
Albizia zygia<br />
Terminalia (savanna spp)<br />
Parinari macrophylla<br />
Vitex doniana<br />
Fagara spp<br />
Tessmannia baikieaoides<br />
Lindackeria dentata<br />
Albizia ferruginea<br />
Beilschmiedia mannii<br />
Antrocaryon micraster<br />
Premna angolensis<br />
Glyphaea brevis<br />
Xylopia elliotii<br />
Cassia sieberiana<br />
Pterocarpus santalinoides<br />
Placodiscus splendidus<br />
Neolemonniera clitandrifolia<br />
Avicennia africana<br />
Various small Annonaceae<br />
Daniellia thurifera<br />
Copaifera salikounda<br />
Daniellia ogea<br />
Klainedoxa gabonensis<br />
283
Weambombo<br />
W.dyo<br />
WOl1go<br />
Yaiyapio<br />
Yalando<br />
Yawio<br />
Yeasa<br />
Ys?'}gule,<br />
Yio<br />
Yo<br />
Yoma<br />
Yomchokaicho<br />
Yomiswende<br />
Yulel1<br />
?Monopetalanthus pteriodophyllu8<br />
Berlinia spp<br />
Samanea dinklagei<br />
Baphia polygalacea<br />
Entandrophragma spp<br />
Heritiera utilis<br />
Albizia zygia<br />
?Albizia adianthifolia<br />
<strong>So</strong>rindeia collina<br />
Treculia africana<br />
Harungana madagascariensis<br />
Pycnanthus angolensis<br />
Smeatbmannia spp<br />
Acioa acabrifolia<br />
Harungana madagascariensis<br />
295
Katindane<br />
Koa<br />
Kobo<br />
Koindinboiboi-kone<br />
Kokondu<br />
Kola<br />
Kongbe-skane<br />
Konja<br />
Kone<br />
Kpaikine.<br />
Kpakpa-kone<br />
Kpamane.<br />
Kpando<br />
KpafJgba<br />
Kpa7')gin<br />
Kpele<br />
Kpindine-<br />
KpoTJgbo<br />
Kposone<br />
Kua-ne<br />
Kuiyombo<br />
Kukai or Kulukai<br />
Kumbu<br />
Kumil')-kone (or Kundrr-kanya )<br />
KUl')gbali-kone<br />
Kwa-nE-<br />
Magbavi<br />
Makpavi<br />
Mambui<br />
Mana<br />
Ma71ga<br />
Mbaimba<br />
Mbei<br />
Mbumbi<br />
Me-e.<br />
Mononui<br />
Mu71gopo<br />
Ndundu-kaima<br />
Ne-€,or Ne-kone<br />
Nguoka-kone<br />
NiT)gine,<br />
Njila<br />
Nonangona<br />
NOTJgoe.<br />
Nyanga-skone<br />
NYf,-ku<br />
;)mba<br />
Ongone<br />
Papa-skcne<br />
Papu<br />
Pasia<br />
Pone.<br />
POPOE.,<br />
Putu-kone<br />
Sagbe<br />
Sakpe<br />
Sao<br />
Sasagbene.<br />
Sawa<br />
297<br />
Millettia spp.<br />
Parinari excelsa<br />
Guibourtia copallifera<br />
Deinbollia grandifolia<br />
Tetrapleura spp<br />
Parinari excelsa<br />
Octoknema borealis<br />
Xylia evansii<br />
Terminalia superba<br />
Fagara spp<br />
Aporrhiza urophylla<br />
Neostenanthera hamata<br />
Pterocarpus santalinoides<br />
Albizia spp<br />
Spondias mombin<br />
Irvingia gabonensis<br />
Treculia africana<br />
Tabaernaemontana crassa<br />
Pycnanthus angolensis<br />
Parkia bicolor<br />
Amphimas pterocarpoides<br />
Cassia sieberiana<br />
?Monopetalanthus pteridophyllus<br />
Caloncoba echinata<br />
Harungana madagascariensis<br />
Parkia bicolor<br />
Dichapetalum toxicarium<br />
Cynometra leonensis<br />
Dialium guineense<br />
Dialium pobeguinii<br />
Canthium subcordatum<br />
Lophira alata<br />
Oldfieldia africana<br />
Irvingia gabonensis<br />
Anthon otha macrophylla<br />
Piptadeniastrum africanum<br />
Newtonia aubrevillei<br />
Pachypodanthium staudtii<br />
Blighia spp<br />
Nauclea diderrichii<br />
Parkia biglobosa<br />
?Garcinia polyalthia<br />
Microdesmis puberula<br />
Entandrophragma spp<br />
Guarea spp<br />
Khaya spp<br />
Mareya micrantha<br />
Ficus spp<br />
Syzygium rowlandii<br />
Acioa scabrifolia<br />
Aidia genipiflora<br />
Trema guineensis<br />
Samanea dinklagei<br />
<strong>Sc</strong>ytopetalum tieghemii<br />
Macaranga spp<br />
Xylopia elliotii<br />
Ficus spp<br />
Mitragyna stipulosa<br />
Drypetes spp<br />
Garcinia kola<br />
Berlinia spp<br />
Cordia platythyrsa<br />
?Allophylus africanus<br />
Canarium schweinfurthii
Banda<br />
Bandapare<br />
Basa<br />
Began<br />
Bembe<br />
Bese<br />
BOllgakol'j<br />
Bumbuse<br />
Bungban<br />
Bu1')gbwe<br />
Butjkank0l1<br />
Buwulekoloma<br />
Deinkiranaf'u1)<br />
Dene..ralafa<br />
Disile<br />
Doleke<br />
Dolle.<br />
Doloke<br />
Dombe<br />
Donsoyambz,<br />
DorE<br />
Dumbe<br />
Fame<br />
Famgbadc<br />
FarabaT)<br />
Fira-bembe.<br />
Fira-finge.<br />
Fira-mana<br />
Fira-minike<br />
Fira-wase<br />
Foko17<br />
FOW017<br />
Gbarrgban<br />
Gbega<br />
GbE.ne<br />
Gbo1Jbe<br />
Gbo1)soTJ<br />
Gbore.<br />
Gbwe.ne<br />
GouT]<br />
JowoTJ<br />
Kambe..kare<br />
Karakil-kene.<br />
Karlule.<br />
Ken e<br />
Kengene<br />
Kense,<br />
Klurekune<br />
KologalankoT]<br />
Kolokere.<br />
Konfure<br />
Kordundu<br />
KorenyaT]ko<br />
Koro1]<br />
Kornere.<br />
Kpese<br />
Kulenere<br />
KORANKO<br />
Ceiba pentandra<br />
Funtumia spp<br />
Holarrhena. floribunda<br />
Octoknema borealis<br />
Bridelia ferruginea<br />
Bridelia miorantha<br />
Terminalia superba<br />
Holarrhena floribunda<br />
Anthonotha maorophylla<br />
Bersama abyssinica<br />
Entandrophragma spp<br />
Funtumia spp<br />
Ochthocosmus af'rioanus<br />
Steroulia tragacantha<br />
Heritiera utilis<br />
Bombax buonopozense<br />
Pseudospondias microcarpa<br />
Canarium schweinf'urthii<br />
?Dialium guineense<br />
Uapaca ohevalieri<br />
Uapaca guineensis<br />
Allophylus af'ricanus<br />
Hannoa klaineana<br />
Uapaca chevalieri<br />
Uapaca guineensis<br />
Anthostema senegalense<br />
Sterculia tragaoantha<br />
Macaranga spp<br />
Bridelia atroviridis<br />
Bridelia grandis<br />
Smeathrnannia spp<br />
Diospyros spp<br />
<strong>So</strong>ottellia leonensis<br />
Chrysophyllum pruniforme<br />
Terminalia ivorensis<br />
Antiaris af'ricana<br />
Antiaris africana<br />
Pentaclethra macrophylla<br />
Lophira alata<br />
Pterooarpus erinaceus<br />
Daniellia thurifera<br />
Pycnanthus angolensis<br />
Detarium senegalense<br />
Ricinodendron heudelotii<br />
Pterocarpus erinaceus<br />
Anopyxis klaineana<br />
Fterocarpus santalinoides<br />
Ficus exasperata<br />
Cleistopholis patens<br />
Morinda geminata<br />
Xylopia acutiflora<br />
Crossopteryx febrifuga<br />
Anisophyllea spp<br />
Syzygium rowlandii<br />
Blighia unijugata<br />
Cassia sieberiana<br />
Vismia guineensis<br />
Lophira alata<br />
Smeathmannia spp<br />
Xylia evansii<br />
Piptadeniastrum africanum<br />
?Daniellia ogea<br />
Anopyxis klaineana<br />
Parkia bicolor<br />
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Koranko<br />
Kumburibe<br />
Kuramachembf..<br />
Kur-e,<br />
Kur-ekakon<br />
Kusukor¥ke<br />
Lalkf..<br />
MaTJke<br />
Mbrembra<br />
Melawula<br />
Nere.-kere.<br />
Ninkira:ry<br />
Nonke<br />
Pope<br />
Poran<br />
Samakombe.<br />
Sambane-koloma<br />
SaT)sa'l<br />
Seme<br />
Se-re.<br />
Sire.<br />
<strong>So</strong>ro<br />
Tabakombe.<br />
Tanse<br />
Tarygbe.sowakoloma<br />
Teli<br />
Tembe<br />
Tili<br />
Tore.<br />
TUlJgbwe:.<br />
Waga1.e<br />
Ware-ware.<br />
Wase.<br />
Wea<br />
Wo<br />
WOl1ge<br />
WUliyallge.<br />
WunsoTJ<br />
Wureko or Wuro<br />
Wurumamalal<br />
Yabanda-yire.<br />
YabundE<br />
Yad:unde<br />
Yale:.<br />
Y€.gere.<br />
Terminalia superba<br />
Octoknema borealis<br />
Parinari excelsa<br />
Distemonanthus benthamianus<br />
Amphimas pterocarpoides<br />
Afzelia spp<br />
Brachystegia leonensis<br />
Allanblackia floribunda<br />
Piptadeniastrum africanum<br />
Uapaca guineensis<br />
Uapaca heudelotii<br />
Microdesmis puberula<br />
Ficus spp<br />
Mitragyna stipulosa<br />
Funtumia spp<br />
Anthocleista spp<br />
Maesopsis eminii<br />
Albizia ferruginea<br />
Samanea dinklagei<br />
Chlorophora regia<br />
Ficus sp<br />
Adansonia digitata<br />
Erythrina addisoniae<br />
Anthocleista spp<br />
Dichrostachys glomerata<br />
Rauvolfia vomitoria<br />
Erythrophleum spp<br />
Calpocalyx brevibracteatus<br />
Tamarindus indica<br />
Erythrophleum spp<br />
Calpocalyx brevibracteatus<br />
Cola lateritia var. maclaudi<br />
Albizia zygia<br />
MYrianthus arboreus<br />
Kareya micrantha<br />
Terminalia albida<br />
Fagara macrophylla<br />
Terminalia glaucescens<br />
Cathormion altissimum<br />
Samanea dinklagei<br />
Tetrorchidium didymostemon<br />
Musanga cecropioides<br />
Cola acuminata<br />
Cola nitida<br />
Garcinia afzelii<br />
Nauclea diderrichii<br />
Baphia nitida<br />
Nauclea diderrichii<br />
Xylia evansii<br />
Phyllanthus discoideus<br />
300
Bakrau-l£.<br />
Bal-le.<br />
Bemb£.-le.<br />
Benfuk£.-l€<br />
Ban-d£.<br />
Bonda-l£.<br />
Bopi-le.<br />
Bue-le.<br />
Bu£.-l£.<br />
Bue-dinte<br />
Buwe-1E,<br />
Gbat- e.<br />
GbathaY}-df..<br />
Gbegbes-f,<br />
Gbilgbil-le<br />
Hap-le.<br />
Kanth-l£'<br />
Kipikip-l£.<br />
Kisin-de<br />
Kol-le.<br />
K;:mdE,<br />
Le-lf..<br />
NE,l)kon-dE<br />
Nomokihoth-le.<br />
Nomokhuth-le..<br />
Y}wa7]wa-l£'<br />
Pal-lE.<br />
Pimpi-le...<br />
Polon-de,<br />
Poyo-le<br />
Poyok-e<br />
Pun-de.<br />
Pun-ma-le<br />
Pun-sa-le.<br />
Rak-le<br />
Rasa-le.<br />
Remu-le.<br />
Sas-le..<br />
Sem-de.<br />
Se.mple.u- e.<br />
SeTJgbell-dE,<br />
Sha-l£.<br />
Shu-le.<br />
<strong>So</strong>n-de<br />
SU-lE<br />
SundintE.-le.<br />
Suthu-le..<br />
Tepal-le..<br />
Tho>k-kentri-le.<br />
ThDk-kol-le.<br />
Tisi-le.<br />
TDllgane-l£.<br />
Tont-le...<br />
Tuo-l£.<br />
Yeki-le.<br />
SHERBRO<br />
Vangueriopsis discolor<br />
Parinari excelsa<br />
Chrysobalanus ellipticus<br />
Tabaernaemontana crassa<br />
Rauvolfia vomitoria<br />
Samanea dinklagei<br />
?Albizia ferruginea<br />
Mitragyna stipulosa<br />
Smeathmannia spp<br />
?Ouratea vogelii<br />
Avicennia africana<br />
Avicennia africana<br />
Smeathmannia spp<br />
Pterocarpus santalinoides<br />
Hymenocardia lyrata<br />
Memecylon afzelii<br />
Morinda geminata<br />
Nauclea diderrichii<br />
Macaranga spp<br />
Anisophyllea spp<br />
Anthocleista spp<br />
Parinari macrophylla<br />
Cola acuminata (fruit)<br />
Cola nitida (fruit)<br />
Ficus exasperata<br />
Spondias mombin<br />
Phyllanthus discoideus<br />
Allophylus africanus<br />
Allophylus africanus<br />
Kareya micrantha<br />
Harungana madagascariensis<br />
Dialium guineense<br />
Ceiba pentandra<br />
Afrolicania elaeosperma<br />
Afrolicania elaeosperma<br />
Albizia adianthifolia<br />
Albizia zygia<br />
Albizia sygia<br />
Albizia adianthifolia<br />
Lonchocarpus sericeus<br />
Terminalia scutifera<br />
Ficus spp<br />
Hannoa klaineana<br />
Parinari glabra<br />
Anthostema senegalense<br />
Dichrostachys glomerata<br />
Bombax buonopozense<br />
Pterocarpus santalinoides<br />
Rhizophora racemosa<br />
Xylopia aethiopica<br />
Rhizophora racemosa<br />
Rhizophora racemosa<br />
Rhizophora racemosa<br />
Trichilia heudelotii<br />
?Microdesmis puberula<br />
Cola acuminata<br />
Cola nitida<br />
Newbouldia laevis<br />
Ouratea vogelii<br />
<strong>So</strong>rindeia collina<br />
Uapaca guineensis<br />
Bridelia micrantha<br />
301
Babwe<br />
Bahi<br />
B;)mb;)<br />
Fakha<br />
F sgurugoongo<br />
Fof'o<br />
Fufu<br />
Gbe.nd&<br />
Heighba.hama<br />
Heiwa<br />
Ka.ghama<br />
Kamba<br />
KCE.ga<br />
Kmdi<br />
Koba<br />
Kondi<br />
KOllgai<br />
Koroga<br />
Kovui<br />
Kpaki<br />
Kpkpa<br />
Kpato<br />
Kp;)<br />
Kpohoru<br />
Mahombo<br />
Makindi<br />
Mbei<br />
Mbc.li-mbamba<br />
)(bombi<br />
Mboragalaga<br />
)(bundu<br />
Ndanda<br />
Ndawa<br />
NdE-v&<br />
Nere.<br />
Ngcndo<br />
Ngogho<br />
Ngomba<br />
NgoTlgo<br />
Ngoroga<br />
Ngukho<br />
Nguru-gbv<br />
Njago<br />
Nukuo<br />
r)wa1)wa<br />
POTJgo<br />
Sege-sege<br />
Save<br />
Tei-guro<br />
Tihu<br />
Tog1:'a<br />
ToE.<br />
Togo<br />
Watia<br />
Wundindi<br />
?Syzygium rowlandii<br />
Terminalia ivorensis<br />
lIorinda geminata<br />
Pentaclethra macrophylla<br />
Ochthocosmus africanus<br />
lrfYrianthus spp<br />
Albizia zygia<br />
Afzelia africana<br />
ltlllettia spp<br />
Chlorophora regia<br />
'icus exasperata<br />
Lophira alata<br />
Irvingia gabonensis<br />
Anisophyllea spp<br />
Sterculia tragacantha<br />
Uapaca guineensis<br />
Cassia sieberiana<br />
Rauvolf'ia vomitoria<br />
Guibourtia copallif'era<br />
Spondias mombin<br />
Albizia adianthif'olia<br />
Fterocarpus santalinoides<br />
Strychnos spinosa<br />
Pycnanthus angolensis<br />
Dialium guineensis<br />
Rhizophora racemosa<br />
?Avicennia africana<br />
Harungana madagascariensis<br />
Vismia guineensis<br />
Anthonotha macrophylla<br />
Mitragyna stipulosa<br />
Nauclea diderrichii<br />
Dichrostachys glomerata<br />
Parinari excelsa<br />
lfacaranga spp<br />
Parkia biglobosa<br />
Treculia af'ricana<br />
Musanga cecropioides<br />
Trema guineensis<br />
Samanea dinklagei<br />
?Cathormion altissimum<br />
Napoleona heudelotii<br />
Napoleona vogelii<br />
Ceiba pentandra<br />
Strychnos spinosa<br />
Trichilia heudelotii<br />
Holarrhena f'loribunda<br />
:Mareya micrantha<br />
Anthocleista spp<br />
Ficus spp<br />
Xylopia aethiopica<br />
Diospyros heudelotii<br />
Phyllanthus discoideus<br />
Bombax buonopozense<br />
Newbouldia laevis<br />
Cola aouminata<br />
Cola nitida<br />
Funtumia spp<br />
Combretum spp<br />
302
Abala-lif<br />
Agidi-lif<br />
Aj e-of'onl.a<br />
Arido<br />
Babu-kalbas (Baboon-calabash)<br />
Baobab<br />
Be.njamin<br />
Bimbi<br />
Bich-ok (Beach-oak)<br />
Bita-kola (Bitter-kola)<br />
Blak-be.ri<br />
Blak-plom (Black-plum)<br />
Blak-tombla (Black-tumbler)<br />
Blod-tri (Blood-tree)<br />
Bot-Ie.m (Butter-lime)<br />
Broko-bak (Broke-back)<br />
Brumston (Brimstone)<br />
Bungbo<br />
Bush-baryga<br />
Dai-dai (Die-die)<br />
Damzin (Damson)<br />
Dita<br />
Fiks-plom (fits-plum)<br />
Gbe.na<br />
Gbongbo<br />
Granat-tri (Groundnut-tree)<br />
Hamon (Almond)<br />
He-I-faiya-plom (Hell-fire plum)<br />
Inshi<br />
Iroko<br />
Kitima<br />
Kola<br />
Konta<br />
Kotin-tri (Cotton-tree)<br />
Krach-lif (<strong>Sc</strong>ratch-leaf)<br />
Kundi<br />
Lokos (Locust)<br />
Moki-apul (Monkey-apple)<br />
Moki-bre.d (Monkey-bread)<br />
Moki-plom (Monkey-plum)<br />
Ok (Oak)<br />
Nomba-wan (Number-one)<br />
Pam-oil-tik (Palm-oil-tree)<br />
Re.d-kotin-tri (Red-cotton tree)<br />
Rof-skin-pliJm (Rough-skin plum)<br />
Roffin-plom<br />
Ronko<br />
Sawa-tombla (<strong>So</strong>ur-tumbler)<br />
Shap (<strong>So</strong>p)<br />
Siminii<br />
Snof-lif (Snuff-leaf)<br />
SOI-wata-mangro (Salt-watermangrove)<br />
Spais-tik (Spice-tree)<br />
Tola<br />
Tombla (Tumbler)<br />
Wet-wata-tik (White-water tree)<br />
CREOLE<br />
Sterculia tragacantha<br />
Mitragyna stipulosa<br />
Croton zambesicus<br />
Tetrapleura tetraptera<br />
Strychnos spinosa<br />
Adansonia digitata<br />
Parinari macrophylla<br />
Chrysobalanus orbicularis<br />
Terminalia scutifera<br />
Garcinia kola<br />
Flacourtia vogelii<br />
Vitex dorriana<br />
Dialium guineense<br />
Harungana madagascariensis<br />
Omphalocarpum spp<br />
Dichapetalum toxicarium<br />
Morinda geminata<br />
Nauclea diderichii<br />
Daniellia thurifera<br />
Diospyros heudelotii<br />
Blighia unijugata<br />
Blighia welwitschii<br />
Dacryodes klaineana<br />
Santiria trimera<br />
Detarium senegalense<br />
Spondias mombin<br />
Erythrina senegalensis<br />
Daniellia thurifera<br />
Bombacopsis glabra<br />
Heritiera utilis<br />
Spondias mombin<br />
Blighia sapida<br />
Chlorophora regia<br />
Chlorophora regia<br />
Cola nitida<br />
Afzelia africana<br />
Ceiba pentandra<br />
Ficus exasperata<br />
Carapa procera<br />
Parkia biglobosa<br />
Anisophyllea laurina<br />
Adansonia digitata<br />
Spondias mombin<br />
Terminalia scutifera<br />
Mareya micrantha<br />
Harungana madagascariensis<br />
Bombax buonopozense<br />
Parinari excelsa<br />
Parinari excelsa<br />
Terminalia ivorensis<br />
Tamarindus indica<br />
Annona spp<br />
Xylopia aethiopica and imported cloves.<br />
Newbouldia laevis<br />
Rhizophora spp<br />
Avicennia africana<br />
Xylopia aethiopica<br />
Beilschmiedia mannii<br />
Dialium guineense<br />
Ficus spp, ?also other plants with white<br />
latex.<br />
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