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THE FLORA OF GAZALAND. D 
Mozambique Government for the rubber (chiefly Landolphia Kirkii) that 
it contains. In the actual grass-jungle the chief tree seen is an Acacia, 
and it is to this species and to Markhamia lanata, of the denser bush, that 
the natives of the locality go for their bark cord ; for there is no Brachystegia 
to be found anywhere here excepting on the Sitatongas. Approaching 
Maruma through the Chikambogé valley, the country becomes hillier and 
the growth of thorns denser but more intermixed with other trees. Finally, 
having passed Mpengo and Maruma, both comparatively small but striking 
hills, their eastern faces clothed with high forest, and having surmounted 
Umtereni, itself open grass with an occasional patch of dense bush, we find 
ourselves, on descending its southern slopes to the Buzi, in bush of a very 
different type. This consists of open woods of species of Uapaca, Brachystegia, 
Afzelia, ete., commonly found throughout Rhodesia, but of quite unusually 
fine growth, such as I have only seen elsewhere on parts of the Chikore Hills 
and in a narrow strip bordering the eastern edge of the Sitatonga Forest. 
We now сгозз the Buzi, here already a river, and bordered often, as are 
most of the foothill streams of Mafusi, Makwiana, and the Jihu, by “ Red- 
woods" and “ Mahoganies? (Adina microcephala and Khaya nyasica) of 
magnificent growth. Ап unusually hot tramp through the Inyamadzi gorge 
and up its steep southern slope, covered with high grass-jungle, now brings 
us into full view of Chirinda and its satellite Chipete. “ Chirinda," with 
the not inappropriate meaning of “ The Great Sleep,” is the name given by 
the natives to a virgin forest composed of enormous and mostly evergreen 
trees that covers roughly 12,000 acres of the higher portions of a hill 65 miles 
by road to the south of Melsetter. Its larger trees range in height. from 
80 feet in such species as Gardenia tigrina and а new Croton (С. Swynner- 
tonii) and /Лтена divaricata, to the 130 feet or more of Khaya nyasica, 
a new Trichilia (T. chirindensis), Strychnos mitis, Schefflerodendron gazense, 
and several other equally ‘magnificent species. A fallen Lovoa (and to 
judge by its trunk-diameter by no means a large one) measured 170 feet, 
and its smaller twigs, had they been still present, would have added at least 
another 15 feet to its height. Clean boles of 90 feet without a branch are by 
no means exceptional either in this species or in the yet commoner Maba 
Mualala, which, with its almost black bark and extraordinarily straight slender 
trunk branching only at the very top, is not only one of the tallest but 
one of the most striking trees of the forest. Parasitic figs with broad 
shady crowns are, from the forester's point of view, only too common, their 
wonderfully picturesque open-work trunks, one of which measured no less 
than 21 feet in diameter, usually still upholding the strangled remains of 
their victims. Altogether a dense canopy is formed high overhead, shading 
effectually the mass of mostly evergreen saplings and shrubs that form the 
undergrowth. They include a wild orange with highly-coloured fruits, a 
