432 LV. COMBRETACER (LAWSON). [ Combretum. 
C. molle, R. Br. in Salt. Herb. Abyss.; Terminalia hirta, Steud. in Hb. Schimp. 
Abyss. 
Upper Guinea. Senegambia! 
Wile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! 
41. C. Petitianum, Rich. FI. Abyss. 1.266. Leaves opposite, very 
shortly petiolate, 6-8 in. long, oval-oblong, acute, glabrous above or 
sparingly lepidote, veins beneath covered with a rust-coloured pubes- 
cence, intermediate portions glabrous. Flowers in nearly sessile Bie 
from the axils of the upper leaves. Fruit shortly pedicellate, ? in. long, 
broadly and bluntly elliptical, lepidote within, hairy or shining. 
Wile hand. Abyssinia, Schimper! 
Very closely allied to C. reticulatum, from which it differs in its opposite, not 
whorled leaves, and in its rounder, smaller and not shining fruit. It is altogether a 
less coarse-looking plant. 
42. C. reticulatum, Fresen. in Mus. Senck. ii. 154. Branches rough 
and tomentose, thicker and smoother at the nodes. Leaves generally 3 
in a whorl, shortly petiolate, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, pubescent above 
when young, downy beneath, veins prominent; when falling off leaving 
deep and unsightly scars. Flowering branches naked. Flowers small, 
in short pedunculate woolly spikes, which are either fasciculate through 
the non-development of the primary rachis, or borne in dwarfed pani- 
cles from the axils of the old leaves. Petals minute, obovate, emar- 
ginate, very concave. Fruit with pedicels 4 lines long, oblong, sub- 
cordate, 1-1} in. long, ? in. wide, glabrous or very slightly puberulous, 
shining.—C. adenogonium, Steud., Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 266, No. 1799, 
named C. reticulatum, in Schimp. Hb. Abyss. sect. ter.; No. 622 in Schimp. 
Hb. Abyss. sect. secund. is C. trichanthum. 
Nile Land. Abyssinia, Schimper! Madi (734,5), Speke and Grant! 
43. C. glutinosum, Perr. (non Hochst.) in Fl. Seneg. 288, t. 68. 
Small tree, branching from the base; young branches furrowed, com- 
pressed at the nodes, viscid. Leaves very variable, alternate, or sub- 
appear or verticillate, petiolate, broadly lanceolate oblanceolate oF 
elliptic, finely pubescent or glabrous, generally viscid when young. 
Flowers pubescent, small, sessile, borne on short pedunculate axillary 
spikes. Calyx-limb broadly campanulate, teeth Reon triangular. Petals 
small, greenish white, unguiculate, obdeltoid, emarginate or almost orbi- 
cular. Fruit pedicellate, elliptical, emarginate at the apex, 4-winged. 
Upper Guinea. Nupe, Barter! Senegal! 
North Central. Musgu, Z. Vogel! 
Wile Land. Madi (No. 6) Speke and Grant! 
44, C. argyrotrichum, Welw. mss. Herbaceous, simple, 1-2 ft. 
high. Leaves opposite, 3-43 in. long by 13-2 in. broad, nearly sessile, 
oblong-lanceolate, covered with silky pubescence on both sides, am 
coarsely and densely reticulated on the upper surface. Flowers in very 
short pseudo-capitate spikes on peduncles at least 6 times shorter than 
the leaves. Petals yellow, broadly obovate, fringed with hairs. Fruit 
