422 LV. COMBRETACEE (LAWSON). [ Combretum 
culating but sparingly. Fruit very shortly stalked, notched at both 
ends, wings papery, semitransparent.—Bot. Reg. xiv. t. 1165. Poivrea 
comosa, Benth., Fl. Nigrit. 339. C. paniculatum, Vent? DC. Prod. 
iii. 20. C. intermedium, Don, in Linn. Trans. xv. 433. 
Upper Guinea. Frequent about Sierra Leone, Bagroo river, Mann ! 
A magnificent climber, whose vast panicles of blood-red flowers give a gorgeous ap- 
pearance to the forests. C. intermedium of Don is a variety with looser racemes and 
broader bracts. 
3. C. Klotzschii, Welw. mss. Climbing. Young shoots hispid, 
with yellowish, glandular hairs. Leaves opposite, petiolate or sub- 
sessile, elliptical with a subcordate base, acuminate, 4 in.—1 ft. long by 
2-4 in. broad, glabrous above, hispid on the veins beneath with the 
intermediate spaces glabrous. Calyx-tube narrowed at both ends; limb 
funnel-shaped ; teeth elongate-triangular. Petals elliptic-oblong, a 
little longer than the teeth of the calyx, vinous red. Stamens a little 
longer than the petals; style far exserted. Fruit pedicellate, lin. 
long, orbicular, with fragile, shining, semitransparent wings.—’ Potvrea 
glutinosa, Klotzsch in Peters’ Mossamb. Bot. 79. 
Upper Guinea. Camaroons river, Mann! 
Lower Guinea. Angola, between 2000-3000 ft., Dr. Welwitsch ! 
Mann’s specimens differ from the above description in having somewhat shorter and 
broader calyx-teeth, and shorter and more triangular petals. 
4. C. confertum, Zavs. Twining shrub; young branches glabrous, 
bark dark brown. Leaves opposite, 3—5 in. long, 2-2} in. broad, ovate, 
acuminate, glabrous, petioles nearly 1 in. long, puberulous, bases of the 
petioles persistent forming spines. Flowers very shortly pedicellate, 
in dense, dwarfed, axillary panicles. Calyx-tube narrowed above the 
ovary, limb tubular-campanulate, slightly hairy within above the fleshy 
disk; teeth short and broadly triangular. Petals ovate, obtuse at the 
apex, scarcely longer than calyx-teeth ; central vein giving off branches 
at acute angles and uniting near the margin. Stamens far exserted. 
Fruit? . . . . —Poivrea conferta, Benth., Fl. Nigrit. 338. 
Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, T. Vogel! 
Lower Guinea. Congo, Smith! 
5. C. oxystachyum, Welw. mss. Shrub 3-5 ft., whole plant villous. 
Leaves 3 in. long, 1} in. broad, shortly petiolate, opposite or alternate, 
ovate, acute, bent downwards, very dark-green above. Flowers 6 lines 
long in conical spikes 3—4 in. long ; calyx-tube covered with fulvous 
hairs, limb with ashy-brown; teeth acute. Petals lanceolate, rigid, 
glabrous and red within, hairy on the outside. Fruit shortly pedicel- 
late, about lin. long, 10 lines broad, emarginate at the apex, sub- 
cordate at the base, occasionally 4-winged, covered” with a rusty 
pubescence. 
Lower Guinea. Angola, Dr. Welwitsch! 
6. C. celastroides, Wel. mss. Much branched, subscandent shrub. 
Leaves opposite, very shortly petiolate, about 2 in. long and # in. 
