APPENDIX I. NOTE ON THE TABLE OF FLOWERING SEASONS.
Reading edition
The following list of Flowering Seasons has been compiled from 3 years’ observations between 9° and 14° North Latitudes. No account has been taken of out-of-season flowering, which is of casual occurrence and due to various causes. The lengths of the flowering seasons are due chiefly to the wide distribution of the trees and do not necessarily represent the lengths of time individuals will bear flowers. Few species, in fact, bear flowers for longer than one month; many for only a few days, but a journey from north to south will show the effects of varying humidity on the flowering season. Such an influence may be counteracted by the date on which a fire swept through the country, fires exerting a quickening influence on the flowering to a marked degree.
The arrangement of the monthly columns so as to place the New Year in the middle of the page is made for the purpose of grouping the flowering period of those species which start flowering before January, whose periods would otherwise be broken up. Comparatively so few trees flower after June that the breaking of their periods is of little account.
This list will illustrate, also, the effect of fires at various times of the dry season on the different species, which may be more exactly determined by making an allowance for the situation of a forest in terms of degrees latitude. In this connection attention may be drawn to the large number of species whose fruits or seeds persist on the branches until the rainy season of the following year, and which will be destroyed by such fires. Only those species whose fruit forms and falls in the rains of the year in which it flowered will stand a fair chance of germinating.
Any observed extension, before or after the periods given here can be entered by extending the lines to correspond and suit the particular case.
TABLE OF FLOWERING SEASONS.
No. Name of Tree. Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun
1 Acacia albida
2 Acacia arabica
3 Acacia campylacantha
4 Acacia Dalzielii
5 Acacia nilotica
6 Acacia Senegal
7 Acacia Seyal
8 Acacia Sieberiana
9 Adansonia digitata
10 Adina microcephala
11 Afrormosia laxiflora
12 Afzelia africana
13 Albizzia Brownei
14 Albizzia Chevalieri
15 Amblygonocarpus Schweinfurthii
16 Andira inermis
17 Anogeissus leiocarpus
18 Anona senegalensis
19 Balanites aegyptiaca
20 Balsamodendron africanum
21 Bauhinia reticulata
22 Bauhinia rufescens
23 Berlinia auriculata
24 Bombax buonopozense
25 Borassus flabellifer
26 Boswellia Dalzielii
27 Bridelia ferruginea
28 Bridelia scleroneura
29 Burkea africana
30 Butyrospermum Parkii
31 Cassia Arereh
32 Cassia goratensis
33 Cassia Sieberiana
34 Celtis integrifolia
35 Combretum abbreviatum
36 Combretum hypopilinum
37 Combretum lecananthum
38 Combretum leonense
39 Combretum micranthum
40 Combretum verticillatum
41 Cordia abyssinica
42 Crataeva Adansonii
43 Crossopteryx Kotschyana
44 Croton amabilis
45 Cussonia nigerica
46 Detarium senegalense
47 Dichrostachys nutans
48 Diospyros mespiliformis
49 Ekebergia senegalensis
50 Entada sudanica
51 Eriodendron orientale
52 Erythrina senegalensis
53 Eugenia guineensis
54 Ficus capensis
55 Ficus gnaphalocarpa
56 Ficus iteophylla
57 Ficus Kawuri
58 Ficus platyphylla
59 Ficus polita
60 Ficus Thonningii
61 Ficus Vallis-Choudae
62 Gardenia erubescens
63 Gardenia ternifolia
64 Grewia mollis
65 Guiera senegalensis
66 Gymnosporia senegalensis
67 Hannoa undulata
68 Hymenocardia acida
69 Hyphaene Thebaica
70 Isoberlinia Dalzielii
71 Isoberlinia doka
72 Khaya senegalensis
73 Kigelia aethiopica var. bornuensis
74 Lonchocarpus griffonianus
75 Lonchocarpus laxiflorus
76 Lophira alata
77 Maerua angolensis
78 Maerua crassifolia
79 Mimosa asperata
80 Mitragyne africana
81 Monotes Kerstingii
82 Moringa pterygosperma
83 Ochna Hillii
84 Odina acida
85 Odina Barteri
86 Ormocarpum bibracteatum
87 Ostryoderris Chevalieri
88 Paradaniellia Oliveri
89 Parinarium curatellaefolium
90 Parinarium macrophyllum
91 Parkia filicoidea
92 Parkinsonia aculeata
93 Prosopis oblonga
94 Pseudocedrela Kotschyi
95 Psorospermum senegalense
96 Pterocarpus erinaceus
97 Randia nilotica
98 Raphia vinifera
99 Rhus insignis
100 Sarcocephalus Russegeri
101 Sclerocarya Birroea
102 Securidaca longipedunculata
103 Sterculia tomentosa
104 Stereospermum Kunthianum
105 Strychnos spinosa
106 Strychnos triclisioides
107 Swartzia madagascariensis
108 Tamarindus indica
109 Terminalia avicennioides
110 Terminalia glaucescens
111 Terminalia macroptera
112 Trichilia emetica
113 Uapaca guineensis
114 Vernonia amygdalina
115 Vitex Cienkowskii
116 Vitex diversifolia
117 Ximenia americana
118 Zizyphus Jujuba
119 Zizyphus mucronata
120 Zizyphus Spina-Christi
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