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baobab, euphorbia, and acacia type is wider. 

 Chrysobalanus Icaco occurs near Benguella. 



Among the more valuable trees of the central 

 Angola plateaux described by Professor Taruffi 

 are Parinarium Mobola (Noxa), with a hard 

 timber resembling oak, suitable for shipbuilding ; 

 Burkea africana (Mako), or iron-wood, resistant to 

 white ants ; the Kaperengalo (another Burkea), 

 with similar timber ; Cleistanthus angolensis 

 (Nganja), a tall tree with a splendid, hard, ant- 

 proof, and heavy timber, resembling ebony ; 

 Brachystegia spicceformis (Omanda), a medium- 

 sized tall tree, yielding moderately hard timber, 

 and fibre from its bark, abundant in the Huambo 

 forests ; Anisophyllea fruticulosa (Luhongo), a 

 medium-sized tree yielding as products good 

 timber, a tanniferous bark, and an edible fruit ; 

 the Umbula (sp. of Uapaca) ; Cassia Sieberiana 

 (Sui), with timber suitable for shipbuilding ; Ber- 

 linia Baumii (Omue), one of the biggest and 

 commonest trees, with good timber, a bark rich in 

 tannin, and an inner bark useful for textile fibre ; 

 the Jungue (Faurea sp.), a tall tree with timber 

 resembling beech, useful for shipbuilding and 

 furniture ; Pterocarpus erinaceus (Ndirassonde), 

 called " blood- weeper," owing to its bark giving 

 a liquid the colour of blood, a tall tree, yielding 

 a fine hard-grained and ant-proof timber. 



Many of the trees described as occurring in the 

 north of Angola are found in the centre of the 

 province as well, though the vegetation is gener- 

 ally less luxuriant and tropical than in the north. 

 Ficus Sycomorus (Mulemba) reaches very large 

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