Oldfieldia
(named after R. A. Oldfield, a merchant at Sierra Leone). ORD. Euphorbiaceae. A monotypic genus, the species being a stove evergreen tree. It thrives in a mixture of loam, leaf mould, and sand, and requires an abundance of water when in rapid growth. Propagated by cuttings. O. africana (African). fl., males loosely cymulose, the small cymes axillary, on peduncles shorter than the petioles; female flowers unknown. l. opposite, long-stalked, digitately five seven-foliolate; leaflets petiolulate, entire, coriaceous, penniveined. Tropical Western Africa. The timber of this tree is believed to be the African oak or teak.