418 LV. COMBRETACEE (LAWSON). | Anogeissus. 
glandular or obscurely so at the base. Flowers small, yellow ; heads of 
flowers axillary on slender peduncles, globose. 
A genus containing 4-5 species, all belonging to the Tropics of the Old World. 
1. A. leiocarpus, Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. i. 280, t. 65. Shrub 
4—6 ft. high. Young branches slightly zigzag. Leaves broadly lan- 
ceolate or ovate, often acuminate. Fruit broadly 2-winged, 2—3 lines 
long, 3—4 lines broad, tipped with a short mucro, glabrous.— Conocarpus 
leiocarpa, DC. Prod. iii. 16. C. Schimperi, Hochst., and C. parvifolium, 
Hochst. in Hb. Schimp. Abyss. 
- Upper Guinea. Senegambia, (Guill. et Perr.). 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! White Nile, Bari country, Speke and Grant! 
A, acuminatus, a native of India, has a much longer mucro surmounting its fruit. 
4. GUIERA, Adans.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 687. 
Flowers in pedunculate involucrate heads. Calyx-tube narrowly 
ovoid, narrowed at both ends, terete or obscurely 5-angled, prolonged 
above the ovary; limb campanulate, 5-fid, persistent. Petals 9. 
Stamens 10 in 2 rows. Ovary crowned by the 5-lobed epigynous disk ; 
ovules 4-5. Fruit coriaceous, curved, narrowly elongate-cylindrical, 
densely clothed with long silky hairs, crowned by the limb of the calyx. 
Seed narrow. Cotyledons convolute.—Shrubs with downy branches. 
The single species of this genus is confined to Tropical Africa. 
1. G. senegalensis, Lum.; DC. Prod. iii. 17. Young branches 
tomentose. Leaves opposite, broadly oval, subcordate, cuspidate, 
shortly petiolate, whole plant covered with minute black dots.—Guill. 
et Perr. Fl. Seneg. i. 282, t. 62, fig. 2. 
Upper Guinea. Growing everywhere in the sandy regions of the Walo and Cayor 
country (Guill. et Perr.). 
North Central. Bornu, 2. Vogel! 
Lower Guinea. Angola, Mossamedes, Dr. Welwitsch! 
5. LUMNITZERA, Willd.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 687. 
Flowers in racemes. Calyx-tube elongate-oblong, narrowed at both 
ends, enlarged by the two adnate bracts, prolonged a little beyond the 
ovary ; limb campanulate, equal or unequal, 5-lobed, persistent. _Pe- 
tals 5. Stamens 5 or 10 in 2 rows, exserted. Ovules 2-5. Fruit 
woody, ovoid-oblong, compressed, obtusely angled, crowned by the 
persistent calyx. Seed linear. Cotyledons convolute.—Shrubs. Leaves 
at the tips of the branches, alternate, subsessile, between fleshy and 
coriaceous. 
Five species inhabiting the Eastern Tropics. 
1. L. racemosa, Willd.; DC. Prod. iii. 22. Leaves obovate oF 
spathulate. Flowers white. 
Mozamb. Distr. A single specimen found by Dr. Kirk on the Zambesi river! 
