150 TIMBER AND TIMBER TREES, [ch. xxiii. 
Table LXXII. 
Trees found near the River Zambesi. 
Dimensions of Stem. 
No. 
Local Names. 
Remarks. 
Length. 
Diameter. 
Feet. 
Inches. 
i 
Inhanpasse . 
6 
8 
2 
Pingue or Pad- 
preto . 
1 6 
6 
Resembles Lignum vitae. 
3 
Mocua . . . 
14 
8—10 
Forked knees. Good quality. 
4 
Imbila . . . 
15—18 
12 
Flexible,light. Middling do. 
5 
Murumanhama. 
18 
12 
Pale red colour, light. 
6 
Mocunca. . . 
15—18 
8—10 
Grows crooked, heavy. 
7 
8 
Mocoza . . . 
Mucumite or 
Sandal-wood. 
35—45 
36—48 
Yellow colour, light, wormed. 
Inferior quality. 
Brown with light and dark 
6—8 
8 | 
shades of colour, heavy, 
crooked. Good quality. 
9 
Pamburo. . . 
Shrub 
IO 
Peam.... 
18 
12—20 
Red colour, shrinks and 
warps, heavy. 
Crooked, heavy, liable to split. 
ii 
Mussangara. . 
12 
10 
12 
Taxa .... 
20 
20—28 
Yellowish colour, heavy. 
Good quali y. 
13 
Mocundo-cundo 
36 
40—60 
Yellow colour, light, porous, 
used for masts, bark yields 
. 
quinine. 
H 
IS 
Mucorongo . . 
Raiz-de-Pingue 
18 
l 
12 
... | 
Roots spreading, heavy, black 
or Pao-preto. 
... 
as ebony. 
16 
Monangare . . 
18 
20—28 
Resembles rosewood, heavy, 
crooked, used by wheel¬ 
wrights, and for blocks. 
17 
Mocasso-cassa . 
18 
20—28 
Reddish-brown colour, hard, 
heavy, used for joiners’ 
work. Good quality. 
18 
Pao-ferra or 
Iron-wood 
Red colour, hard, heavy, used 
| 24 
8 ) 
for furniture and treenails. 
Good quality. 
19 
Pao-ferro or 
24 
8 1 
Dark brown, heavy, resembles 
Mais-is-curo . 
Sabicu. Good quality. 
20 
Pangira . . . 
30 
26 
Brown colour, porous, used in 
house and ship-building. 
21 
Pao-fava. . . 
22 
12 
Red colour, light, resembles 
mahogany. Good quality. 
22 
Metteral. . 
24 
12 
Ditto, heavier. Ditto, ditto. 
23 
Mugunda . . 
40—60 
12—24 
Yellow colour, straight, light, 
used in ship-building. 
24 
Morrunda . 
15 
5-8 
Ditto, ditto, ditto. 
25 
Mouna . 
15 
12 
Red colour, straight, mode- 
rately heavy. Good quality. 
26 
Luabo . . . 
12 
10 
Ditto, heavy, ditto. 
