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beneath, covered with long silky deciduous hairs above. Flowers in long 
woolly axillary spikes. Calyx-limb hemispherical, teeth almost obsolete. 
Petals small, obovate, entire,from a wedge-shaped base, reflexed. Stamens 
included. Fruit winged, elliptical, 1 in. long, emarginate, abrupt or 
slightly cordate at the base, covered with a short dark rich red pubes- 
cence.— C. chrysophyllum, Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. 289. 
Upper Guinea. Senegal! Sierra Leone, Afzelius! 
South Central. Highlands of the Batoka country, Dr. Kirk! 
Mozamb. Distr. Tette, Zambesi, Dr. Kirk! 
37. C. Hartmannianum, Schweinf. in Fl. Ethiop. 24, t. 3. Tree; 
barren branches glabrous, flowering branches puberulous, with very 
few leaves. Leaves petiolate, ovate, acuminate, acuminations as long or 
longer than the rest of the leaf, glabrous, flaccid and shining. Flowers 
small, in short axillary spikes. Petals small, orbicular, shortly clawed. 
Fruit pedicellate, winged. 
Nile Land. Nubia, Schweinfurth! 
Lower Guinea. Baines ! 
38. C. myrtifolium, Zaws. A shrub or small tree; branches 
glabrous or clothed with long tomentose hairs. Leaves coriaceous, 
opposite, with slender petioles 2-3 in. long, ovate-lanceolate, glabrous 
on both sides or at length becoming so. Flowers small, on long pedicels, 
m short axillary racemes, glabrous. Calyx-limb widely campanulate ; 
teeth woolly, triangular, elabrous on the outside, filled with long white 
hairs within. Petals small, broadly obovate, shortly clawed. Fruit 
about 4 in. long, with the wings often incomplete, on long pedicels, 
variable in shape ; wings light yellow, disk darker. 
Mozamb. Distr. Lupata and Tette, Zambesi, Dr. Kirk! 
This plant is closely allied to C. Kraussti, Hochst., a South African species, in which 
the leaves are obovate. 
39. C. nigricans, Lepr. in Fl. Sencg. 290. Small tree; branches 
round, subfastigiate ; young branches and petioles covered with a fine 
ash-coloured pubescence. Leaves opposite, ovate-lanceolate, 4—6 in. 
long, glaucous above, finally puberulous beneath, drying blackish. 
Flowers?. . . Fruit in long lax racemes, oblong, about 1 in. long. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia (Guill. and Perr.). 
Guill. and Perr. observe that this species is closely allied to C. altum, from which, 
however, it differs in the size and shape of its fruit, and in its leaves being puberu- 
ous and not lepidote beneath. 
40. C. trichanthum, Fresen. in Mus. Senck. 1837, 155. Small 
tree; young branches pubescent. Leaves opposite, shortly petiolate, 
8 in. long, elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, hairy often 
densely so when young, at length becoming nearly glabrous above. 
Owers small, in axillary spikes. Petals minute, obdeltoid, fringed 
at the top with minute hairs. Fruit pedicellate, oval, wings slightly 
puckered, puberulous. 
oe: Young leaves and inflorescence covered with tomentose ubescence.— 
* Schimperianum, C, Riippellianum, and C. ferrugineum, Rich. Fl, Abyss. 1. 265-7; 
