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Table LXXII.
Trees found near the River Zambesi.

No.	Local Names.	Dimensions of Stem.		Remarks.
		Length.	Diameter.
		Feet.	Inches.
1	Inhanpasse .	6	8
2	Pingue or Padpreto .	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	Mocôza	35–45	36–48	Yellow colour, light, wormed. Inferior quality.
8	Mucumite or Sandal-wood.	6—8	8	Brown with light and dark shades of colour, heavy, crooked. Good quality.
9	Pamburo	Shrub
10	Peam	18	12–20	Red colour, shrinks and warps, heavy.
11	Mussangara.	12	10	Crooked, heavy, liable to split.
12	Taxa	20	20—28	Yellowish colour, heavy. Good quality.
13	Mocundo-cundo	36	40–60	Yellow colour, light, porous, used for masts, bark yields quinine.
14	Mucorongo	18	12
15	Raiz-de-Pingue or Pao-preto.	...	...	Roots spreading, heavy, black 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	24	8	Red colour, hard, heavy, used for furniture and treenails. Good quality.
19	Pao-ferro or Mais-is-curo	24	8	Dark brown, heavy, resembles 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, moderately heavy. Good quality.
26	Luabo	12	10	Ditto, heavy, ditto.