430 LV. COMBRETACEZ (LAWSON). [ Combretum. 
the leafy branches. Calyx-limb tubular-campanulate ; teeth broadly 
triangular, fringed with minute hairs, nearly glabrous. Petals minute, 
obdeltoid. Fruit pedicellate, broadly oval, emarginate, 2 in. long, 
1} in. broad, pedicels slender, 1 in. long or more, dark brown or of a 
brick-red colour. 
Lower Guinea. Angola, 5000 ft., Dr. Welwitsch! 
Mozamb. Distr. Tette, Zambesi, Dr. Kirk! 
According to Dr. Welwitsch, the leaves and fruit of a variety of this plant, called by 
ate C. tinctorum, are used by the natives as a yellow dye. It has fruit-stalks 12 i. 
ong. 
33. C. paradoxum, Welw. mss. A wide-trailing shrub. Leaves 
opposite, petiolate, nearly glabrous; young leaves oblong-elliptical, 
41 in. long by 24 broad; adult leaves oblong-elliptical, shortly acu- 
minate, 7} in. long by 3 in., pale yellow above, dark olive green beneath, 
sparingly lepidote and pellucidly punctate. Flowers in terminal fasci- 
culated racemes 6 in. long. Calyx-tube quadrangular ; limb very 
short and almost square, lined at the base with a large fleshy disk ; teeth 
inflexed and forming 4 pockets. Petals obovate. Stamens incurved, 
rarely 4, and then opposite the petals. Fruit pedicellate, oblong-ellip- 
tical, about 14 in. long and ? in. broad, whole surface covered with a 
velvety glandular chocolate-coloured scurf. 
Lower Guinea. Angola, Dr. Welwitsch! 
34. C. tetragonum, Laws. Shrub; branches round, tomentose. 
Leaves opposite, very shortly petiolate, oval or elliptical, 3—5 in. Jong, 
14-2} in. broad, of soft texture, pubescent, veins beneath hairy, inter- 
mediate portions lepidote. Flowers? Fruit sessile, in simple axillary 
spikes, ovoid, 14 in. long, 2 in. broad, with 4 sharp angles not 
winged, downy. 
Mozamb. Distr, Senna, Zambesi, Dr. Kirk! 
35. C. holosericeum, Sond. F1. Cupensis, ii. 510. Small tree. Leaves 
opposite, rarely 3 in a whorl, shortly petiolate, 24-6 in. long by 2-3} 
broad, broadly ovate or elliptical, sometimes subcordate at the base, am 
notched at the apex, covered with a dense white velvety tomentum 
which turns to a rich chocolate brown in drying, sometimes quite deci- 
duous in the old leaves. Flowers in axillary spikes 2 in. long. Petals 
minute, broadly reniform, depressed at the apex and fringed with hairs, 
shortly clawed. Fruit subsessile, elliptical, 3—1 in. long, olandular, 
blood-red.—Sheadendron molle, Klotzsch in Peters’ Mossamb. Bot. 76. 
Lower Guinea. Angola, at the height of 5000 ft., Dr. Welwitsch ! 
Mozamb. Distr. Chiradzura mountains, Dr. Kirk! 
Specimens collected by Dr. Welwitsch at a lower elevation in Angola have leaves 
with glandular veins on the under surface ; fruit 14 lines long and 12 broad, nearly 
orbicular and shortly pedicellate. This is also a South African species. 
36. C. tomentosum, Don; DC. Prod. iii. 21. Shrub, climbing 
branches villose, with rust-coloured hairs. Leaves shortly petiolate, 
opposite, oblong-elliptical, mucronate, 14-2 in. long, ferruginous, V 
