are only found over 5000 feet, and this applies 

 to most of the Labiatse and Loranthacese. The 

 Zygophyllacea 1 occur only on the coast, the 

 Celastraceas and Dichapetalacese in the south 

 of the country, where the Composite arc also 

 more numerous. The flora will now be described 

 as I met it (1) in the Cabinda and Congo districts ; 

 (2) along the northern railway line and in the 

 North and South Coanza districts ; (3) in Lunda 

 as described by Marques ; (4) as I met it along 

 the Central Railway and in the Benguella district ; 

 and (5) in my southern journeys in the districts 

 of Mossamedes and Huilla ; while the description 

 of the districts of the Cubango and Coando are 

 taken entirely from the accounts of Almeida. 



It was surprising to find a park-like country 

 (savannah forest) and even a certain degree of 

 aridity at Cabinda, the most northerly Angolan 

 port, and which increased as one went south 

 along the coast, the savannah merging into scrub 

 and then becoming desert at Mossamedes. 



At CABINDA vegetation included the oil palms 

 (Elcris guineensis) (Mateva), with their beautiful 

 fronds and bunches of brown palm nuts, yielding 

 valuable oil for commerce and local use ; fan 

 palms (Ryphane guineensis), wild date palms 

 (Phoenix reclinata}, the true wine palm (Raphia 

 vinifera), with its huge and beautiful fronds 

 (Bordao) used for machilla poles and building ; the 

 baobab (Adansonia digitata) (Bondeiro), w r ith its 

 immensely thick trunk (circumference up to 60 

 feet), which provides fibre and paper, and its 

 white waxy flowers and o'ourd-like fruit : the 



