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TIMBER AND TIMBER TREES.
[CH. XXIII.
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. |