Combretum. ] LV. COMBRETACEE (LAWSON). 427 
21. C. truncatum, Welw. mss. A large tree, young branches com- 
pressed and covered with reddish or ash-coloured scales, the whole se 
otherwise glabrous. Leaves opposite, shortly petiolate, 2-3 in. long, 
narrowly obovate, densely lepidote on both sides, which gives to the 
plant a mealy appearance. Flowers small, in axillary and terminal 
spikes about the length of the leaves; buds pyramidal. Teeth of the 
calyx broadly triangular. Petals minute, obovate. Style covered with 
Stipitate glands. Fruit very shortly pedicellate from a broad truncate 
base, tipped at the apex with the persistent base of the style, densely 
lepidote. 
Lower Guinea. Angola, on the coast, Dr. Welwitsch ! 
Mozamb. Distr. Lupata, Dr. Kirk! ; 
This species may be readily distinguished from all other African Combreta by its 
glandular style. The wood is described as being exactly like that of the lignum-vite. 
€ native name for it in the Mozambique country is “‘ Mozambiti.’’ 
22. C. collinum, Fresen. in Mus. Senck. 1837, 153. Shrub ? erect; 
young branches flattened or slightly grooved, glabrous or sparingly 
epidote. Leaves subopposite, petiolate, 2 in. long, narrowly ovate or 
elliptical, 3-5 in. long, 1—2 in. broad, sparingly lepidote above, densely 
so beneath. Flowers about 2 lines long, in weak simple axillary spikes 
shorter than the leaves. Calyx-limb campanulate ; teeth broadly tri- 
angular, fringed with minute hairs. Petals very broadly obdeltoid 
with undulated margins, shortly unguiculate. Fruit? ... . 
Upper Guinea. Nupe, Barter! Senegal! . 
Nile Land. On the banks of the Tacazze, Schimper! Gallabat, Schweinfurth ! 
Madi, Speke and Grant! 
. Plants named by Planchon C. eleagnifolium, with flowers only, differ from the above 
in their broader and blunter leaves, 
ma, (. lepidotum, Hochst. ; Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 268. Tree; young 
branches compressed, lepidote. Leaves opposite, very shortly petiolate, 
*—4 in. long, ovate, acute, glabrous above and covered with glands 
which secrete a viscid substance, densely lepidote beneath. Flowers 
'n short spikes from the axils of the leaves which they about equal in 
length. Petals broadly obdeltoid, fringed with hairs. Fruit nar- 
towly oblong, lepidote.—C. punctatum, Rich. 1. c. 266; C. glutinosum, 
tochst. in Hb, Schimp. Abyss. (not Guill. et Perr.) C. vernicosum, 
Fenzl in Flora, 1844, 312; C. Quartinianum, Rich. 1. c. 266. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Sennaar, Schimper! Nubia, Kotschy! 
Lower Guinea. Angola? Dr. Welwitsch! ; oe 
Under this species I have combined several varieties considered by Richard distinct 
PPecies, as after the examination of numerous specimens I do not think the form of the 
eaves and the difference in the degree of scaliness and viscidity are sufficient by which 
to distinguish them. The most distinct form is C. Quartinianum, in which the leaves 
ra much less viscid and scaly than in the rest, having little tufts of hair in the angles 
eeniod by the veins on the under surface. Dr. Welwitsch’s specimens from Angola 
ri broader leaves, which are covered with dense pubescence. It is called by some 
of the colonists the Oak Cavilla. 
24. c. microphyllum, AJotzsch in Peters’ Mossamb. Bot. 74. Shrub. 
not climbing ; young branches round, pubescent. Leaves opposite, very 
