The oil palm, on the other hand, is less known but much more valuable.

The oil palm is abundant, palm oil, ivory, India rubber and nuts being the chief exports.

The substitute for rubber as the first product of the land is the fruit of the oil palm tree.

An oil palm will bear fruit within seven years after the young tree is planted.

It is rich in the oil palm and oil-bearing groundnut, but the climate is exceedingly dangerous to Europeans.

In three running rivulets we saw the Shuaré palm, and an oil palm which is much inferior to that on the West Coast.

There are many kinds of nuts to be found in their domain, but the oil palm nut appears to be a favourite.

The forests contain the baobab, the coco-nut palm and the oil palm.

Amid the tropical growth of the west of Africa the oil palm flourishes.