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Forest Flora of Portuguese East Africa. 
Pacha (4), (Brachylaena discolor?). A fairly dense, yellowish, resinous timber, with a corky bark more or less fissured and cracked. 
Chissengue (4), Commiphora sp. A white, soft, exceedingly light timber with smooth decorticating bark, more or less winkled horizontally, greenish below, the papery 
pieces coming off white. Too soft for technical work except floats or brake-blocks. 
Chincaha (4)- A pinkish-grey hardwood, weighing about 45 lbs. Bark thick, rough, very irregularly cracked. Used for posts, &c. 
Ziba (5, 6), Aridradia arborea. A brownish-walnut coloured hardwood having a distinct and rather wide nearly white sapwood. Timber dense and hard with a fibrous 
but fine surface, figured on the hcartwood, and showing well under varnish. Weight about 55 lbs. A very pretty timber, well suited for furniture and other high- 
class work, or for general hardwood purposes. Rings about 4 m.m. apart. Bark woody, solid, light grey with white blotches, uncracked, but more or less wrinkled, 
thin, somewhat resinous in the inner layer. 
Guamate (4). A nearly white limber, having numerous very fine pores, and numerous rays, and taking a good surface; weight about 40 lbs. Well fit for planking, &c., 
and other half-hardwood work. Bark grey, blotched white, smooth. Grows to be a large tree 60-80 c.m. diameter. 
Tana (4), (Dichrostachys major?). A dense close-grained resinous hardwood, nearly white in colour but usually too small at Lourenzo Marques for technical purposes. 
Another specimen under the same name from Manhica is represented by two logs 18 c.m. diameter, and has pinkish-white hardwood working to a fine and beautiful 
surface, and taking varnish well. Rings about 2 m.m. apart ; pores numerous, small, equally scattered ; rays very fine; weight about 50 lbs. A good hardwood or 
half-hardwood, fit for planking, &c., or even for better work. Bark thin, grey ; regularly and very finely cracked and fissured, and also having horizontal grooves at 
8-12 m.m. distances. 
Mucho (4), Eugenia cordata. A pinkish-grey timber weighing about 35 lbs. having numerous medium-sized pores and fit for boarding and similar work. A 30 c.m. log 
shows a beautifully grained reddish-grey timber of fine surface and well fit for furniture work, but the outer 1 cm. of sapwood is destroyed by borers. Bark warted 
or cracked, or more or less fissured, light-grey in colour, thick, red inside. 
Mumangate (4) and Munangate (5). A grey timber, darker toward the centre; pores numerous and fine ; rays very numerous and fine; weight 45-50 lbs. Surface 
good and dean ; rings 8 m.m. apart. Bark thin, fissured into irregular flakes of 1-2 c.m. The only similar name I know is the Eschuab name Mutagate for 
Brachystegia tamcrindoides. 
Mgogobe (4), (Castanho 2). Log 25 c.m. diameter. A dark-brown hardwood of high quality and first-rate colour. Surface good; pores numerous; weight about 50 lbs.; 
rings 3 m.m. apart. Specimen cracked, and cleared of sapwood, but it is a good timber, distinct from anything else in the collection and certainly not Calodendron 
Capense. 
Chimcuanaon (4), probably Schotia brachypctala. A pinkish timber of fair density, having numerous small pores and few rays. Apparently of slow growth. Bark thin, 
rough, but not cracked or fissured, grey outside, red inside. 
Manzibana (4). A hard white timber with thin grey bark, blotched white. Fit for hardwood work. 
Chole (4), Mimusops caffra. A dense close-grained hardwood timber of red colour. Pores few, rather small ; rays numerous, fine. No sapwood, and the timber is first- 
rate for strength and durability, but seldom in long straight lengths. Bark grey, 6 m.m. diameter, thick, more or less fissured and cracked; deeply fissured in old 
timber. Pound excellent for knees, &c., for boat-building. Common along the coast. 
Specimens from Manhica. 
Bandja (5), probably Cordyla africana. A solid dense hardwood, of about 60 lbs. weight. Colour yellowish, shot with darker figured markings. Pores few, long, not 
conspicuous; rings about 12 m.m. apart, not prominent. A beautiful timber for furniture work; also suitable for wagon work and general hardwood use. A 
hmber oflngh quality if obtainable in size and quantity. Log 25 c.m. diameter. Another small log marked “ Bandja, Lourenzo Marques,” and also bearing a 
label Sanchu, ’ docs not appear to be the same timber. It is more yellow, closer-grained, and has a grey, somewhat wrinkled, bark. 
Cacho (5), Conopharyngia vcntricosa. A close-grained figured yellowish-grey timber, taking a fair surface, pretty under varnish. Pores few ; rays fine ; weight about 40 
s. ark thick, light-grey, soft, corky, deeply fissured with age into irregular ridges, 2-3 c.m. wide. A fairly firm pretty timber, fit for planking, boxes, &c., where 
