Combretum. | LV. COMBRETACEEH (LAWSON). 433 
almost sessile, about 1 in. long and 8 lines broad, elliptical, tipped at 
the apex with the persistent base of the style, densely puberulous. 
Lower Guinea. Angola, rising to 5000 ft., Dr. Welwitsch! 
Very closely allied to the next species. 
45. C. herbaceum, Don, DC. Prod. iii. 21. Stem. herbaceous, 
simple, 1 ft. high, proceeding from a woody base. Leaves subopposite 
or alternate, lanceolate, mucronate, 3 in. long, covered with soft silky 
hairs, often at length glabrous on the upper surface. Flowers in simple 
axillary spikes nearly as long as the leaves. Petals small, oblong, 
sie Fruit roundly oblong, abrupt at both ends, ? in. long, shortly 
stalked. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, 7. Vogel! Nupe, Barter! 
46. C. platypetalum, Welw. mss. Suffruticose ; 4 in. to 1 ft.; young 
shoots covered with a silky pubescence. Lower leaves opposite, upper 
alternate, shortly petiolate, coriaceous, 1—3 in. long, elliptical-obovate, 
reflexed at the apex, veius prominent. Flowers in dense stunted pani- 
cles, frequently leafless. Calyx-limb elongate-campanulate, teeth short, 
cuspidate, vermilion. Petals sessile, orbicular, 1 line long, vermilion. 
Stamens generally 10. Fruit shortly pedicellate or sessile, elliptical, 
1} in. long by 1 in. broad, vermilion: 
Lower Guinea. Angola, abounding in the low shrubby pastures at 5000 ft., 
Dr. Welwitsch ! a 
A beautiful species, readily known from the rest by its small habit and exquisite 
red flowers. 
8. CACOUCTA, Aubl.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 688. 
Calyx curved, tube narrowly ovoid, rounded or 5-angled; limb 
ample, tubular-campanulate, furnished below the middle with a villous 
ting’ or a membranous annular disk, 5-fid, deciduous. Petals 5.  Sta- 
mens 10 in two rows, curved, exserted ; anthers ovate-cordate. Ovary 
1-celled, style filiform, elongated, curved; stigma simple; ovules 3-0. 
‘Tuit coriaceous or membranous, 5-angled or broadly iat te 1-seeded. 
Seed sulcate, elongated, thick and fleshy.—Shrubs with robust scandent 
branches. Leaves opposite. Flowers large, showy, bracteate, in simple 
or compound racemes. 
A genus of 4 known species, found only within the Tropics of Western Africa and 
astern America. 
A. Flowers in panicles. 
Flowering branches clothed with long silky pubescence. Bracts 
arge, persistent Be ee es re ae ee 1 
Branches @owny. Bracta cadacous . 4 sss 5 <5 es eee 
: Flowers i simple terminal racemes. 
Fruit samaroid e 5 
Tult subpentagonal 
l. ©. villosa, Laws. Shrub, climbing to 12 ft. high; flowering 
branches with bracts and flowers densely clothed with long silky hairs. 
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villosa. 
paniculata. 
C. bracteata. 
4. C. coccinea. 
