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Library · The Useful Plants of Nigeria, Part III (Kew Bulletin, Additional Series IX), 1915

Picralima Klaineana, Pierre; Fl. Trop. Afr. IV. Sect. 1, p. 96.

J. H. Holland, Part III, p. 439. Transcribed from the page image on September 25, 2026, as printed.

Picralima Klaineana, Pierre; Fl. Trop. Afr. IV. Sect. 1, p. 96.

Ill.—Hook. Ic. Pl. tt. 2745–2746.

Agege, S. Nigeria (Foster, No. 220, Herb. Kew), Old Calabar (Robb, Fl. Trop. Afr. l.c.); also on the Gold Coast, Ambas Bay.

Extensively used by the natives, Gold Coast, in place of quinine (Oppenheimer, Son & Co. Herb. and Mus. Kew).

A tree 30–80 ft. high. Wood light yellowish in colour, takes a good polish; weight per cubic foot 44 lb. of a specimen in the Museum, Kew, from Ambas Bay (Mann. No. 18).