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violet flowers, and a red fruit formed like a bouquet. 
It is serviceable in cuts and ulcers. 
Manouquibonga, a bush with branches like the 
vine. Its beautiful red flowers have the appearance 
of a bunch of feathers. 
Vohan-filan, a tree twelve feet high: the trunk, 
which is qnite straight and leafless, is full of thorns. 
Its leaves are of a beautiful green colour, about four 
inches and a half long, and two and a half broad : 
these it bears at the top, where the foliage is thick 
and perfectly round; the wood-pigeons are fond of 
its fruit, which has a very singular form. 
Vua-azigna,—This is the straightest and loftiest tree 
in Madagascar: its wood is hard, heavy, and yellow, 
and is used by the natives for building their houses, 
and the keels of large canoes. It exudes a resin of 
the colour of amber, but inodorous and viscous. An 
oil also is extracted from this tree, which is very 
valuable, and being mixed with rice, renders it pa¬ 
latable and delicate. 
The Ahetsmanga, is a plant resembling hemp ; it 
grows about five feet high, bears a small long leaf, 
and a cod containing about a dozen seeds like those 
of hemp. The natives smoke this plant: they cut 
leaves and seeds together, and lay them in the sun 
three or four days, till they are very dry, when it is 
fit for use. They smoke it through pipes made of 
reed or small cane, and sometimes a long shell found 
on the sea-shore. It is very strong, and intoxicates 
them even to distraction, their eyes looking fiery, and 
