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climate and soil are suitable. The following- 

 varieties are found growing wild, though probably 

 imported from America : Gossypium barbadense 

 (var. hirsutum), the upland cotton, G. peruvianum, 

 Sea Island cotton (Algodao di panacho of the 

 Portuguese), and G. acuminatum (Muxinha). A 

 smaller shrub, 2 to 3 feet high, G. maritimum, 

 grows a yellow cotton called Algodao cor de 

 ganga by the Portuguese. 



Tobacco is extensively cultivated by the 

 natives for their own use, but mainly experiment- 

 ally by European settlers. 



Fibre. Hemp is obtained from Agave sisalana 

 and other varieties, which have been introduced 

 and are doing well, and the bow-string hemp 

 from the Sansevierias, S. longiflora and S. ango- 

 lensis (vcl. cylindrica) (In), are being experi- 

 mented with. As pine-apples grow wild in great 

 profusion in Angola, and yield a fibre that is made 

 into cloth in the Philippines, experiments might 

 be carried out to advantage for their employ- 

 ment. 



Sugar-Cane . Large areas of Angola are suit- 

 able for this plant, which was grown extensively 

 up to 1911 mainly to produce alcohol ; when the 

 sale of liquor to natives was prohibited, the local 

 government granted generous compensation and 

 further stimulated production to such an extent 

 that 24,600 tons were available for export in 1913. 

 For some unexplained reason, in spite of every 

 encouragement and protective tariffs, the cultiva- 

 tion of the plant has lately decreased. 



Palms. There five few plantations of (he epon - 



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