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Mtawa grows on any kind of soil. The wood is not hard. When dry it is not 
heavy, but when green, natives make good bark-cloth of it, and rope. 
Msopa is used in medicine, and also to make bows. It makes good boards. Chips 
of it are steeped in the water where bark-cloth is steeped, so as to dye it black. The 
wood is hard to cut and cracks. It grows close to streams or in damp, marshy spots. 
Mkwale grows on plains, as on the bank of the Tuchila. It is used for making 
spoons, pestles, and lip-rings worn by native women. It is very white, and does not crack. 
Msolo grows on sandy soil, and makes good boards. Natives cut it into pestles, 
pipes, and spoons. It will not make mortars because it is too hard. The fruit is eaten 
by game such as bushbuck, etc. 
Mseche/a grows on sandy soil near a hill. It is very like the msuka tree, but has 
smaller leaves. It makes as good boards as the msuku tree. The fruit is small and 
edible. 
A'lchenje grows on plains near ant-hills. The bark is rough and the leaves are small. 
It is used in medicine by steeping chips of it in water, and drinking the water. It is 
used as medicine for game-traps. The fruit is pounded and placed in the traps. In 
seasons of famine it is eaten as a food. 
Nkungunyanjila grows anywhere near the river. Its fruit is not eatable. The wood 
makes good boards. It is used as medicine for sores, by steeping chips of the wood 
in water, and washing over the wound by means of a feather. 
Chiwimbi grows near streams. The stem is light in colour. The leaves are long and 
narrow. The natives make the wood into pestles, spoons, mortars, etc. It makes good 
boards of a white colour. It is also used in making drums, and as stomach medicine in 
fever. 
Mkwakwa produces a nice fruit. It grows on hills in dense clumps of trees. The 
fruit is sweet and tastes like pineapple. 
Mgiiwanguwo is used in medicine by steeping the bark. It has a very bitter taste 
like quinine. It makes into good boards. 
Mscje cuts into good boards. It is not hard to saw up. The wood is red in colour. 
It grows on sandy soil. When the tree is small its branches make good pestles. 
Mjole 1 is a good wood used in canoe-making. It is a very tall tree, with the leaves 
all at the top. It makes into very strong canoes. It grows on the river and at Linjisi. 
Sanya is a tree that grows at the river, and is used in making wall-posts of houses, 
and in twisting into ropes. It is a very common tree. 
Mtomoni grows on sandy soil and hilly country. It is used in medicine. It makes 
a good tree for fence-posts, as it takes root and grows. The sap is used in smearing the 
tops of drums, that the india-rubber may adhere to the skin. The fruit is inedible. 
Mbewe grows on sandy soil. Long ago the wood was used for arrow-heads. It is 
used also in smelting and working iron, that the metal may be made readily malleable. 
Mpelele grows on plains near the river. The tree is one used in canoe-making, as it 
does not crack. 
Mtondo is found at the river, and is used in canoe-making, and in making mortars, 
pestles, etc. The fruit, which is called Matondo, is edible. 
Msichisi 2 grows near streams. The wood is used in making stocks of guns, pestles, 
pillows. 
Msangu, a canoe tree. The bark is rough, the leaves are small. It grows at the river. 
Msumiva grows at the river; somewhat rough in the bark. The tree is useful in 
canoe-making. 
1 Parinarium sp.—H. H. J. 2 Wild date palm, Phcenix sp.—II. II. J. 
