Combretum. ] LV, COMBRETACEE (LAWSON). 425 
Upper Guinea. Camaroons river, Mann! Sierra Leone, Barter! Fernando Po, 
ani ! 
Lower Guinea. Congo, Smith! Angola, Dr. Welwitsch! 
Var. flammeum, Welw. mss. differs from the above in its darker coloured calyx, red 
stamens, and deep red bracts and leaves. Fruit nearly orbicular and often notched at 
the apex. This is probably the C. macrocarpum of Beauy.: Highlands of Angola and 
Sierra Leone. 
Dr. Welwitsch observes of this shrub, that when it is in flower it gives to the country 
the appearance of being on fire, so abundant are its deep red flowers and bracts. 
14. C. capituliflorum, Fenzl; Schweinf. in Relig. Kotsch. 33. 
Leaves opposite or ternate, petiolate, lanceolate, margins undulate and 
thickened, 4-6 in. long, glabrous on both sides, dotted beneath with 
minute orbicular scales. Flowers sessile, in dense woolly pedunculate 
heads } in. across, which are arranged in short terminal and axillary 
panicles; bracts woolly, small, subulate, caducous. Calyx-tube glo- 
bular; limb broadly infundibuliform, teeth broadly triangular and 
somewhat inflexed, glabrous within. Petals small, spathulate-obovate, 
concave, entire or emarginate, fringed at the apex with a few delicate 
hairs. Fruit shortly pedicellate, oblong, acute, 1-14 in. long by 4—§ in. 
broad ; wings narrow, woody. 
Nile Land. White Nile, Petherick! Nubia, Schweinfurth ! Madi (717), Speke 
and Grant! 
A very distinct species. - 
15. C. paniculatum, Vent. ; DC. Prod.iii.20. Shrub, erect or climb- 
ing, 10-30 ft. Leaves subopposite or alternate, exceedingly variable 
In size form and texture, 3 in. long, broadly elliptical, cordate, cuspidute, 
puberulous; or 7 in. long, oblong, smooth and membranous, shortly 
acuminate with petioles 1 in. long; or 4 in. long by 2} broad, coriaceous, 
glabrous above, downy beneath, with very short petioles ; or 14 in. pie 
by 54 broad, oblong-obovate, tapering below, cuspidate, glabrous an 
membranous. Flowers red, fascicled, forming interrupted spikes which 
are arranged in gigantic terminal panicles. Calyx-limb tubular, almost 
black when dry. Petals very broadly ovate, almost orbicular, blood 
ted. Fruit on slender pedicels, obovoid, emarginate, 1} in. by 1 in., 
pale coloured.—@. spinosum, Don, DC. 1. ¢. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Don! and others. Prince’s Island, Mann! Fer- 
nando Po, Barter and Mann! Dahomey, Barter ! : 
Lower Guinea. Angola, between 1500-2000 ft. Dr. Welwitsch! : 
A most variable species, as far as the leaves are concerned; but many of the speci- 
mens from which the description given above is taken are so poor, that it is possible 
there may be more than one species. 
16. C. virgatum, Welw. mss. Shrub 5-7 ft. high. ; young branches 
and Wide Bul ceric CA ferruginous pubescence ; old Teaves also 
distinctly tomentose. Leaves alternate, petiolate, oblong-lanceolate, 
re long. Flowers in numerous short dense spikes borne on virgate 
branches 3—4 ft. high. Calyx-limb infundibuliform with short hair- 
Upped teeth, limb and tube densely puberulous. Petals sessile, orbi- 
cular, concave, red. 
Lower Guinea. Angola, between 3000 and 4000 ft., Dr. Welwitsch ! 
