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Matongo (Kis.),? Strychnos. Orange-sized edible fruit. M’gooloongooloo (Kis.). 
Matoo (Kin.), Dioscorea, sp. A three-cornered fruit, eaten as a vegetable boiled. 
Matoongool’a (Kis.), Amomum, sp. Fruit scarlet; grows underground. It is very refreshing to the 
taste. The Waganda wear the fruit as a wreath or a necklace. See M’toondoo (?). 
Meeafwengeh (Kin.), probably Meliacee, resembling Celastrus. А fleshy fruit with one or more 
stones. 
Mee-enzeh (Kin.), m’noozameenzeh (Kin.),? Ficus. Its bark is used as rope; also it is converted into 
second-rate bark-cloths. 
Mee-enzerrah (Kin.), Lophira alata. This is one of the handsomest trees in Africa as to foliage and 
flowering. Its bark is made into cloths. M toto (Keeao). 
Meelalla (Kin.), Borassus æthiopicus, the “ deleb of Egypt. Тһе root is boiled and eaten in famines ; 
the fronds are made into drinking-cups, and excellent matting, strong and white. 
Meelangameea (Kin.), not determined: meela=wood, gameea=a camel. Camels eat its leaves. This is 
a climber, which separates from its root and lives upon the copal or other tree. Copal gum forms 
in lumps of considerable size at its roots. It was observed by our party in Uzaramo. (Native 
information.) N’gamia=a camel and a long parasitical plant (Steere). 
Meelangarree (Kin.), Euphorbia antiquorum. Its milk is used as a glue when cloth is being weaved. The 
“ quol-quol”’ of Abyssinia ? 
Meelee (Kin.),? Ficus: m'voooh (Kis.). Lofty tree; trunk 11 feet in circumference. 
Meeleendee-meela (Kis.), not determined. А nasty outspreading half-tree; fruit apple-size and inferior. 
Тһе wood is made into drum-sticks and harmonicons. 
Meelomba, meeroomba (Kis. & Kin.), m'loombo, Ficus. One of the bark-cloth trees. 
Meeloolo. 
Meeloong-oo (Kin.), not determined. Its woodis made into bows. 
Meeombo (Kin.), Brachystegia spiceformis: m'jombo (Kis.). Fifty feet high, 9 feet circ., and tall trunk ; 
yields a first class bark-cloth. Its bark is made into boats, cloths, rope, roofing, baskets, corn- 
bins, kilts for wear, match or tinder ; and its wood is large and useful. The honey from its flowers 
is considered of the purest and whitest quality. 
Meeonga pembeh (—), Steganotænia, sp.: pembeh=a horn, an instrument of the enchanter. With a 
branch of it in the hand, a man may rob a house without detection, by placing the branch over 
- the doorway of the house; or if he kills a goat at a cross road, and has a branch of it by him, he 
wil find that all are asleep where he goes to plunder cattle or other property. Were not all 
Lumerezies's cows stolen by a man carrying a branch of this tree, and none of them ever reco- 
vered? Itis а bad wood. (Native information.) 
Meepamb’a (Kis.), Gossypium barbadense. This is the plural for cotton. It is very little cultivated 
in Central Africa, merely a bush or two by villages, sufficient to yield cotton for stringing beads 
and making kilts. Mbamba=cotton-plant (Krapf). 
Meepampa (Kin.), Bassia, sp., ? B. Parkii. The natives of Ugani and of Madi chip away its bark; а 
milk exudes freely, and this forms a gum. 
Meesölo (Kin.),? Vitex. Tree with immense, tall, straight trunk, 12 to 15 feet in circ., зан ің made 
into сапоев for the King of Uganda upon the equator. Its fruit has a stone ike that of the 
Vitex, and is worn strung round the leg to give strength. Props to houses are also made of its 
mast-like wood. Known to Manua, who had seen it in a similar country at Mambweh, S. of Тап- 
ganyika Lake. 
Meesoo (Kin.), Chionanthus ?, sp. Flowers are sweetly scented. 
Meesoofee (Kis.), Eriodendron anfractuosum : ? m’sufu=fruit-tree ae Observed in flower in Oc- 
tober, at 7° S., and again at 2° Х. lat. 
Meetoobba (Kig.), Fic icus, sp. One of the bark-cloth trees of Uganda. 
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