Elaeis guineensis originally grew in West Africa. The southern coast of Nigeria was originally called the Palm oil coast by the first Europeans who arrived there and traded in the commodity. This area was later renamed the Bight of Biafra. In traditional African medicine different parts of the plant are used as laxative and diuretic, as a poison antidote, as a cure for gonorrhea, menorrhagia, and bronchitis, to treat headaches and rheumatism, to promote healing of fresh wounds and treat skin infections. In Malaysia, the first plantations were mostly established and operated by British plantation owners, such as Sime Darby and Boustead,
Arctides guineensis Arctides guineensis Arctides guineensis is a species of slipper lobster which lives in the Bermuda Triangle. It is known in Bermuda as the small Spanish lobster, a name which is also favoured by the FAO. "Arctides guineensis" reaches a maximum length of , or a carapace length of . "A. guineensis" was described in 1799, making it one of the first slipper lobsters to be described, and only the second from the Western Atlantic (after "Scyllarides aequinoctialis" in 1793). The Hawaiian species "Arctides regalis" was previously considered to belong to the same species as "A. guineensis", but the two differ