510 : COMBRETACE (Sond.) [Combretum. 
Has. Port Natal, Gueinzius, 567. Attercliffe, Sanderson/ 249. Gerrard and 
McKen! (Herb. Sd. D.) 
Branches greyish. Leaves 3-4 inches long, 2-25 inches wide, shining above. 
Petiole 3 lines long. Raceme-like spikes 2 inches long. Bracts subulate, minute. 
Calyx acute, nearly 1 line long, hairy. Petals minute, obovate, unguiculate, yellow. 
Filaments exserted. Style as long or longer than the stamens. Fruit obtuse at 
both ends, 9 lines long, 6 lines broad ; wings yellowish, transversely striated, with 
crenulate margins, lepidote. 
4, C. Kraussii (Hochst.! pl. Krauss, 58) ; branches glabrous ; leaves 
opposite, short-petiolate, obovate or obovate-oblong, obtuse, mucronu- 
late or acutish, cuneate at the base, quite entire and glabrous, pale 
olivaceous and reticulated beneath ; spikes oblong, axillary, usually 
shorter than the leaves, glabrous ; flowers 8-androus ; petals minute ; 
fruit suborbicular, emarginate at the base and apex, 4-winged ; wings 
scarious, twice broader than the lanceolate body of the fruit. Sond. 1. ¢. 
C. lucidum, E. Meyer. non Blume. 
Has. Woods near Port Natal, Krauss. 253, Drege, Gueinzius, 566, Plant, 27. 
Oct._Feb. (Herb. 8., D.) 
Shrub or tree 15-20 feet high, with greyish branches. Leaves 2-3 inches long, 
14-2 inches broad. Spike 2 inches, flowers sessile, not pedunculate as in the pre- 
ceding. Fruit 8 lines long and broad, wings transversely striated. 
5. C. holosericeum (Sond. 1. c. 44) ; arborescent, unarmed, branch- 
lets terete, as well as the leaves and spikes fulvous-silky ; leaves oppo- 
site, very shortly-petiolate, broad-ovate, subcordate, acute, very entire, 
on both sides densely and softly velvetty with yellowish-brown hairs : 
spikes oblong-cylindrical, axillary, solitary, shorter than the leaves ; 
flowers 8-androus ; calyx cup-shaped ; petals obtuse, ciliate ; fruit 
subsessile, elliptic, 4-winged, wings semiorbicular, thinly pubescent, 
not or scarcely broader than the lanceolate body of the fruit. Harv. 
Thes. Cap. p. 47, t. 74. 
Has. Magalisberg, Burke, Zeyher, 575. June. (Herb. D., Sd.) 
A small tree, with glabrate branches, and opposite, densely velvetty twigs. 
Leaves 24-34 inches long, 2-24 inches broad, with minutely recurved margins, the 
lower surface densely netted with prominent veinlets between the parallel prima: 
veins. Spikes shortly pedunculate, 14-2 inches long. Flowers minute. Calyx wi 
4 Shallow, broad teeth, separated by rounded interspaces. Petals very minute, ob- 
re iran S vane 9-10 lines long, obtuse at each end (when young, 
sien wee aga “eg © wings subentire at meen yellowish, cross-striate, 
6. C. apiculatum (Sond. 1. ¢. 45); erect, unarmed ; branches gla- 
brous ; leaves opposite, shortly-petiolate, elliptic or oblong, recurvate- 
apieulate, glabrous on both sides, lepidote, reddish ; raceme-like spikes 
axillary, solitary, as long as the leaves, subglabrous ; flowers 8-androus ; 
calyx campanulate ; petals bearded-ciliate ; fruit 4-winged, subemargi- 
nate at both ends; wings lunate, shining, glabrous, broader than the 
oblong-lanceolate, lepidote body of the fruit, 
Hab. Magalisberg, Zeyher, 553. Oct. (flower), Jan. (fruit). (Herb. Sd., D.) 
A small, much-branched tree. Branches opposite, = i et pe young ones 
at top viscous. Leaves reticulate, 2}~3 inches long, 14-18 lines broad, when young 
subviscous. Racemes 14-2 inches long ; peduncle and rachis glabrous. Calyx gla- 
brous, with § short, ciliolate teeth. Petals obovate, minute, yellow. Stamens ex- 
serted, as long as the style. Fruit cordate-ovate, 10 lines long, 9 lines wide, golden- 
