CUmnaljifi] cxvii. mouace.k. Wj:> 



Gingos " Liiimbe "' ; tlie I'ortuguese name is " Canhamo." This com- 

 modity, which is for the most part if nut wholly comju.sed of the cut- 

 up leaves of hemp, is eagerly sought for in the markets by the natives 

 at Loauda ami in all the iuteriur of Angola for narcotic smoking : 

 indulgence in it constitutes one of the most pernicious of their vices, 

 especially with the slaves, who when addicted to Riaml)a smoking 

 become uc.arly useless to their owners. The plant is cultivated in all 

 the interior districts of Angola, but always in situations more or less 

 retired or lonely, in order to withdraw the plantations from the notice 

 and greed of j)asseugers. Haiuiorrhage of the nose is the very freiiueut 

 consequence of this smoking intoxicant ; the natives in the interior of 

 Huilla are accustomed to cure it with the powdered panicles of 

 " Encotahote " (Ci/mbujxKjdn ttcliiiiiniitlius Spr. var. stijjiliius Rendle ; 

 Welw. herb. n. 7521'), Coll. Carp. I()|t8 and 1094), aii application of 

 which nearly always has the desired effect. 



For an account of the constituents of hemp resin, see a paper by 

 T. H. Easterfield and T. B. Wood in Proc. Cambr. Phil. Soc. ix. 3, 

 pp. 144-8 (IS'.ti;) : and on its pharmacological action, by C. R. 

 Marshall, /.<•., pp. !41)-50. 



The dried herb is packed for sale in cylindrical sausage-sbaped 

 parcels, 2 to 3 ft. long and about 4 in. thick. The fruits of the 

 .4(/(///.w/i2Vf, called "Mucua," are used by the negroes for smoking the 

 Riamba ; see tmtr. p. 80. 



2. MYRIANTHUS P. Beauv. Fl. Owar. pp. xi. IC t. 11, cxd. 

 fr., non t. 12 (18U4) ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 379. 



1. M. arboreus P. Beauv., I.e., p. 17 ; Ficalho, PI. Uteis, 

 p. 273 (1.S84:); Eiigl. Men. Morac. African, p. 37. t. IG (1898). 



Goi,rx(i() Ai/ro. — A very elegant tree, 20 to 2.'i ft. high, mostly 

 dioecious but not rarely monoecious in different branches of the same 

 tree ; trunk 1| to 2 in. in diameter at the base, branched a little above 

 the l)ase : branches spreading ; sap of the branchlets watery, viscid, 

 scarcely turning white, but the trunk when cut with a knife showed no 

 sap : leaves digitate : syncarpium resembling both in its shape and 

 golden colour a pmeapple or some species of J^ain/an/is, its Mesh edible, 

 acidulous-sweet : seeds numerous in the syncarpium. In the dense 

 rather damp primitive forests close to streams about Sange and in the 

 Alto Queta and Cungulungulo mountains, plentiful ; male and female 

 tl. Nov. and Dec. 185;j ; fr. Dec. 1855. Native name '' Musibiri,' 

 " Musuviri," or " Musubiri." No. 2590 and Coll. Cari'. 901. 



Prxiio AxDoNiio. — A form with obtuse leaflets and more slender 

 male inflorescence. In the denser forests of Mata de Pungo : male H. 

 March 1S57. No. 2591. 



The Lichens, nn. lO'J, IIH, 151, 1G7, IGS, 171, 183, 331, 375, 37i;, 4(;7. 

 grew on the trunk or branches of this tree in Golungo Alto : also the 

 moss n. 213 {Raciijulniit sp.) and the hepatic n. 310 on the bark, in the 

 same district. In Pungo Andongo it is also called " Pernambuco."' 



3. MUSANGA R. Br. in Tuckey. Congo, pp. 453, 328, 329, 

 467 (islS) ; r.,'iitli. c^' Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. p. 379. 



1. M. cecropioides Br. ex Todlie in Buwdicb, Mi.ss. A.sbantee, 

 p. 372 (1819). 



M. Smithii K. Br. in Benn. it Br. PI. Javan. llor.sfield, p. 49 

 (1838); Benth. in Hook. Ic. PI. xiv. p. 4. tt. 130G, 1307 (April 

 1880); Ficalho, PI. Uteis, p. 273 (1884); Engl. Mon. Morac. 



