As Dasylepis in Hooker's Icones Plant. XIII. t. 226k LOCALITIES. Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Gaboon. VERNACULAR NAMES. Akosica ; Akossica (not Assoseka, as Chevalier (1909, pp. 148 and 269) mentions both separately). Edde; Edde ; Okilolo ; Belarbinekele. Description of the wood from a specimen No. 3008 " Akosica " (Empire Timber Exhib. 1920) received from the Government of Nigeria. GENERAL CHARACTERS. A moderately hard and heavy wood of a nearly uniform white colour with a suggestion of yellow here and there. The colour hardly deepens, but the wood loses its brilliance when weathered. Surface clean, not cold to the touch, dry, soils easily. Shade of the transverse section a little browner and darker than that of the other sections. Grain fine, open, straight. Smell, none. STRUCTURE. Very characteristic. Transverse section. (Prepared with glass-paper.) See PL IV, fig. 4. Parenchyma of one kind : (a) vasicentric, just visible with the unaided eye as fine specks around the orifices of the pores ; scanty. Vessels just visible with lens as perforations, very small, uniform in size and fairly so in distribution, but with a tendency to collect in zones ; rather crowded ; 50-60 per sq. mm. ; arrangement indefinite ; shape, shortly oval ; contents, light golden resin in small quantity and also a little of a darker colour. Proportion of the wood about one-third. Rays very easily visible, being very large, numerous and white ; of two kinds ; the larger milk-white, irregular in size, fairly regular in spacing, gently curved, otherwise straight ; many thin ends and all tapering strongly inwards ; not nodose 11 12 GUIDE TO TIMBERS OF NIGERIA at the ring-boundaries ; 9-10 per mm. ; proportion of the wood about one-third. Ground-tissue-cells visible with macroscope ; proportion of the wood about one-third. Rings not traceable at all. Radial section. Colour much whiter than the other sections on account of the large white flakes of silver-grain against the decidedly yellow ground, both are lustrous and change with the incidence of the light. Grain, fine, open, straight, nearly empty. P. (a) just visible with the lens as tails to the vessels. Tangential section-as the radial, but the larger rays appear as lines rarely exceeding J inch in height ; the smaller rays are not visible with lens, lacking contrast. The large rays are apparently in echelon and thus form bands which are distinctly visible over long lengths (over 10 inches). Small rays not in parallel. The shining linings of the vessels show up as glistening points. DENSITY. No. 3008, 0-72 or about 45 Ib. per cubic foot. Chevalier (1909, p. 148) gives 0-658 and (1917, p. 60) 0-753. BARK. " Whitish, not fissured, but covered with wide depressions " (Chev. I.e. and 1917, p. 60) " Rusty-white, wrinkled, not fissured, with ellipticalMepressions of the size of a five-franc piece ; thickness unequal, thin and adherent to the sap wood." Garcinia sp., Guttiferae. Gen. No. 654. Specimen " Agberigbede," No. 3609 received from the Government of Nigeria (Lagos). Alternative name, " Agberigncd...

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