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the wood, of musk colour, is the hardest and heaviest 
in the country, and bears a fine polish. 
Voanane, is a fruit half a foot long, consisting of 
four parts, with the taste of a stony pear, and is a 
sovereign remedy in laxative disorders. 
Entsacale, is the fruit of a large tree, which grows 
extremely high and perfectly straight: the leaves are 
few, and resemble those of the nut-tree : the fruit is 
divided into little cells, by a membrane thinner than the 
skin that covers them, of a yellow colour, full of seed, 
and some juice of an agreeable taste. This fruit grows 
upon the trunk from the bottom to the top, and is only 
fastened by a very curious thin stalk. There are three 
kinds of it;—that already mentioned; the second with 
the outside black; and the third of an ash grey: they 
have each of them veins and fibres lying in the bark. 
Fonti, is a plant that grows like a plume of feathers, 
with leaves six feet long, and two broad. Many of 
them are ten feet long without the stalk, which is two 
feet; the fruit is called Voatfontsi, or Voat-dourou, 
and is enclosed in a hard rind or bark. 
The Hintchy, is the most common tree in the 
province of Voolou Voolou. It forms delightful 
avenues, having its top covered with thick foliage ; 
it resembles a plum-tree, and rises to the same height. 
Its wood is red, bark smooth and white, and leaves 
broad, and of a beautiful green. 
The Tanguem grows on the coast; the wood is 
hard, and fit for joiner’s work : the fruit is a formida¬ 
ble poison, and the natives dip their spears in the 
juice of it. 
