BOTANICAL APPENDICES 
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Mkunde 1 grows near streams. Is useful in canoe-making. The fruit is edible, but is 
apt to discolour the teeth. 
Dululu grows on sandy soil. It is used in making drums, mortars, spoons, etc. It 
makes good boards. The root also is used in drum-making. It is a light wood. 
Mtondewoko is used in canoe-making. Elephants are fond of the fruit. The wood 
is hard and very heavy. It is used in making the big drums used by the river people. 
Mtundu grows in clumps of trees or on the sites of deserted villages. Cuttings are 
planted at the chiefs courtyard, and grow very quickly into a big tree which can be 
readily recognised. 
Mkoloiionjo grows on plains. The wood of the stem is very full of knots. It is 
used in canoe-making. It is found at the river and at the Tuchila. 
Ntepa makes excellent bark-rope. It grows on flat grassy plains. 
Ngachi , 2 a leafless tree. If the sap drops into the eye it causes inflammation of the 
cornea. It is used as a fish poison. It grows on the sites of old villages. 
Mdogodea cuts easily into boards. It is a smooth-barked tree with small leaves, and 
grows near a stream. The fruit is named Mandogodia. 
Mvumop or Ngwalangwa, is a river tree of great height. The fruit is edible. The 
leaves are long like those of the date palm. It is propagated from the seed. The root 
also is used as food in a similar manner to the carsana plant. 
Mwaja —a large tree growing on the banks of streams. It is red in colour, and 
produces a fruit as large as a pumpkin. When ripe the fruit falls to the ground. People 
pick it up, take out the seeds, roast them, and eat them. The tree is found on Mounts 
Mangoche and Nangu. 
Nangivesu is a good tree for bark-cloth. It grows on sandy soil. Its bark is also 
used for bark-rope. 
Mtalawanda is used for bows and sticks. The bark is smooth, and the leaves are 
small. It grows at the river. 
Tenza is used for bows and sticks. It grows in sandy soil near streams. It is not of 
much use. In appearance it is very similar to the Mtalawanda tree. 
Mtewelewe grows an edible fruit. It is used for wall-posts of houses. 
Nkope is used for making bows. The wood is hard, the leaves are large, and the bark 
smooth. It grows near streams in clumps of trees. 
Nkulakula is used in making lids of covered baskets. The wood is adzed down thin, 
and bent into a circular form. It is also used in making beer cups. 
Nalmkwi is used for mortars, drums, etc. It is also made into boards. 
Chinyenye is used to make mallets for hammering out bark-cloth. Europeans may 
use it for wooden hammers. It grows near the river. 
Mpawoni is a large tree like Mbawa. It grows near streams on the banks of the 
Tuchila and Nkwakwasa. In appearance it is like the Mbawa, but has not the red 
colour. 
Mchile , or Kalisache, grows anywhere even as a parasite. It makes very strong bark- 
cloth. It is red in colour, and is used also in making bark-cloth. Its fruit is called Ngile. 
Chisije. —The Chikunda people at Michiru take chips of the wood, mix the water in 
which they are steeped with Likwanya plant, and use it in dyeing cloth of a black colour. 
It grows anywhere on sandy soil. 
1 Parkia filicoidea. —H. H. J. 2 Euphoi-bia sp.—H. H. J. 
3 Apparently these are two different palms. Mvumo is the Borassus Jlabellifer , and Ngwalangwa 
Hypliane sp. inc.—H. H. J. 
