80 xxiii. malvaoe^e. [Adansmiia 



a brief maceration, they expose the sheets to the sun for heating, and 

 also submit them to beating, until the different parts of the fibrous 

 layers separate. A clean inner bark then presents itself, which, when 

 manufactured into sacking, serves for the package of coal, fruits, roots, 

 cotton, etc. ; or is unravelled and employed in the manufacture of 

 various articles for domestic use, such as string, nets, wallets, etc. 

 All the cotton which is sent from the interior of the province to the 

 market at Loanda, and thence directly exported to the extent of many 

 hundreds of stones (arrobas) weight, is there carried in bags made of 

 the inner bark of Imbotideiro ; and also the greater part of the gum 

 copal and of Orchella-weed is conveyed in wrappers of the same 

 material. Moreover, under suitable treatment, it would perhaps serve 

 for the manufacture of coarse paper and of other similar goods, (See 

 Welwitsch, Synopse, pp. 40, 41.) 



The natives call the fruit of Adansonia digitata "Mucua.'' This 

 tree is considered with just reason the most characteristic plant of 

 tropical Africa ; it grows in nearly every part of the province of 

 Angola, with the exception, however, of the highland region ; it dis- 

 appears altogether at an elevation of 4000 ft. above sea-level. The 

 fruit furnishes, in the pulp which contains the seeds, a substance very 

 advantageous for the preparation of lemonade, with an agreeable taste 

 and with a particularly refreshing effect in the case of various febrile 

 affections. The negroes make use of these Mucuas for smoking their 

 Riamba {Cannabis), and also for vessels of water and of other liquids 

 (see Welwitsch, I.e., p. 47). To enumerate the multifarious applica- 

 tions which the natives make of the various parts of this tree in their 

 domestic economy would be to compose a long chapter of African 

 ethnography. (See Welwitsch, Apontamentos, p. 598, under n. 136.) 



During the Ambriz war many thousands of boxes of this material 

 were manufactured within a few days in Sange in Golungo Alto for 

 the conveyance of provisions to the seat of war. 



12. BOMBAX L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 210. 



1. B. buonopozensis P. Beauv. Fl. D'Owar. ii. t. 83, fig. 1 (1807), 

 p. 42 (Buonapozense) ; Masters in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 213. 



Golungo Alto. — An immense tree, 100 ft. high and more, leafless 

 at the time of flowering, prickly when young after the manner of 

 "Mafumeira" (Ceiba Casearia) ; trunk 4 to 10 ft. in diam. ; flowers 

 tulip-shaped, rose-scarlet, very handsome ; (petals 2£ in. long) ; in the 

 primitive forests of Capopa, not uncommon ; fl. in Jan., Feb. and 

 June 1855, and Jan. 1856 ; fr. Oct. 1856 ; in leaf in March and in 

 August 1856, when an enormous tree of it was cut down to obtain 

 specimens of the leaves ; called by the colonists " Mafumeira in- 

 carnada." No. 5412. Foliage and bark with prickles gathered at 

 Capopa, Sept. 1855. No. 5413. A young little tree of the gigantic 

 tree "Mafuma" (with scarlet, tulip-shaped flowers), Capopa, Nov. 

 1855. No. 5414. Coll. Carp. 271, 272. 



13. CEIBA Plum. f. (1703); Adans. Fam. PL ii. p. 399 (1763). 



Eriodendron DC. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 210. 



1. C. Casearia Medic. Mai v. Fam. p. 16 (1787). 



Eriodendron anfractuosum DC. Prodr. i. p. 479 (1824) ; Masters 

 in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. i. p. 214. 



Ambriz. — On the Quizembo river, near the little bank; foliage 

 without fl. or fr. Nov. No. 5406. 



