| Description | Manuscript and typescript letters and reports, printed documents, press cuttings, photographs, drawings, and a botanical specimen relating to economic and botanical subjects in Lagos [Nigeria]. Includes information regarding sending botanical specimens, and their identification and analysis, and the cultivation and trade of products including annatto, cacao, coconut, coffee, rubber, cotton and 'dyewoods'. Includes letters to Thiselton-Dyer, Morris and Jackson, with letters and memorandums from Thiselton-Dyer, Morris, Jackson, Nicholson, Oliver and Hemsley. Includes correspondence with the Colonial Office, and the Colonial Government of Lagos.
Volume is arranged in the following sections:
-- Agave rigida var. sisalana --
(Ff1-3) Papers regarding [Agave sisalana].
-- Annatto --
(Ff4-20).
-- Barwood --
(Ff52-105) See 'Camwood and Barwood (Ff52-105)'. Includes identification as 'Pterocarpus angolensis' and 'Pterocarpus tinctorius', and papers regarding woods sent from Sierra Leone.
-- Benin River --
(Ff21-26) Comprises:
- MINUTE BY GOVERNOR MOLONEY IN CONNECTION WITH HIS VISIT IN APRIL, 1888, TO THE PRESENT EASTERN LIMIT OF THE COLONY OF LAGOS. BENIN RIVER, THE RIO FORMOSO OR BEAUTIFUL RIVER OF THE PORTUGUESE (1888).
-- Bombax malabaricum --
(F27) Papers regarding [Bombax ceiba].
-- Botanical Expedition (Botanist) --
(Ff28-50) Papers regarding botanist required for expedition in 1892, the supply of plant collecting materials, and specimens sent to Kew.
-- Cacao --
(Ff51) Newspaper cutting regarding the cocoa industry.
-- Camwood and Barwood --
(Ff52-105) Papers regarding the identification of 'camwood' and 'barwood' [also 'cam-wood' and 'bar-wood']. Camwood identified as 'Baphia nitida var. pubescens'. Includes reference to ashanti pepper plant [Piper Guineense]. Includes (f68) two photographs labelled as follows:
- 'Camwood Trees growing in the Korbangai at Pendebu, Bambara Country, Sierra Leone'
- 'Camwood Tree from which the sections in the museum received August 30th 1892, were cut' 'from Mr Alldridge'.
-- Cocoa-nut --
(Ff106-112, 189-190) Papers regarding cultivation, and copra trade.
-- Coffee --
(Ff113-134) Papers regarding cultivation, trade, and coffee machinery, including (f130) sketch of coffee pulping machine.
-- Coir fibre --
(Ff135-146).
-- Commerce of Lagos --
(Ff147-148) Newspaper article containing interview with Sir Gilbert Carter, Governor of Lagos.
-- Cotton --
(Ff149-154) Comprises:
- William Macgregor, MEMORANDUM ON COTTON (1902).
-- Eriodendron wood --
(Ff155-160) Papers regarding use of Eriodendron [silk cotton tree] for packaging.
-- Fibres, Bolobolo, Toja or Toga, Ojaikoko, Elais --
(Ff161-239) Papers regarding Bolobolo fibre [Honckenya ficifolia, willd., [Clappertonia ficifolia]] 'Toja' fibre [Urena lobata], 'Ojaikoko' fibre [Sansevieria guineensis [Dracaena hyacinthoides]], and collection of fibre plants made by W R Higginson, 1890. Includes papers regarding fibre from leaves of oil palm [Elaeis guineensis], including illustrated report by Alvan Millson.
-- Ficus Vogelii rubber --
(Ff240-330) Papers regarding rubber from the 'Abba tree', [Ficus vogelii [Ficus lutea]] and experiments by Alvan Millson. Includes (f248) botanical specimen of leaf of ''Abba' tree of West Africa'. Includes papers regarding proposed expedition of James Bennet to study the 'vegetable and mineral resources of the colony' in 1890, and papers regarding preparation of Castilla elastica rubber, and report on Lagos rubber.
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| Plant Name | Agave rigida var. sisalana |