48 CONSPECTUS TABULARUM, 
lel primary veins. Spckes axillary, shortly pedunculate, 1}-2 inches 
long, slender, many flowered. Flowers minute. Calyx with a cup-shaped 
limb, with 4 shallow, broad teeth, separated by rounded interspaces. 
Petals very minute, broader than long, somewhat obovate, fringed with 
long woolly hairs. Stamens 8, much exserted. Ovary crowned with 
dense bristles. Fruit (according to Sonder) ‘subsessile, 4, rarely 3- 
winged, 9-10 lines long, obtuse at each end (when young, somewhat 
taper-pointed); the wings scarious, subentire at margin, yellowish, 
cross-striate, very thinly pubescent, 2 lines wide in the middle, not 
wider than the body of the fruit.” 
A handsome species, remarkable for its broad, fulvons, softly velvetty 
leaves, larger and broader than in any other South African species yet 
discovered. I have not seen the fruit. 
Fig. 1, Combretum holosericeum ; the natural size. Fig. 2, a flower; 3, the calyx- 
limb, laid open, showing the insertion of the stamens, and petals; 4, a petal; 5, apex of 
ovary ; all magnified. 
LXXY. COMBRETUM ZEYHERI, Sond. ( Combretacee.) 
C. Zeyheri: arboreum, inerme, ramulis foliis juncorzdus petiolisque 
velutinis, foliis oblongo-ellipticis obtusis subemarginatis glaberrimis 
reticulato-venosis supra lucidis, spicis axillaribus solitariis velutinis, 
floribus bracteatis, calyce campanulato, petalis unguiculatis glabris, 
staminibus 8 rarius 12-16, fructibus maximis petiolatis 4-alatis ellip- 
tico-subrotundis utrinque emarginatis glabris, alis semiorbiculatis niten- 
tibus corpore oblongo-lanceolato duplo latioribus. Sond./ in Linn., 
vol, xxili., p. 46. 
Has.—Macallisberg, Burke & Zeyher ! (Herb. T.C. D., comm. cl. Hook.) 
Descr.—aA tree, 20-80 feet high. Twigs, petioles, the young leaves 
and the inflorescence softly pubescent ; the full-grown leaves quite gla- 
brous. Leaves opposite, on petioles 2-3 lines long, elliptical or ovato- 
elliptical, very obtuse, 2-24 inches long, 14-2 inches wide, somewhat 
shining on the upper surface, prominently nerved and veined, and 
closely netted with veinlets on the lower surface, dull green, slightly 
rust-coloured. Spikes axillary, shorter than the leaf or equalling it, 
densely velvetty, cylindrical, many flowered. Flowers minute. Calyx- 
tube constricted above the ovary, then widening, and campanulate, 
shortly 4-toothed, with wide interspaces. Pefals minute, on short 
claws, ovato-trapeziform, glabrous. Fruits very large, 14-2 inches long, 
and nearly as wide, glossy and glabrous, emarginate at each end; the 
wings 2-1 inch wide, finely striate, twice as wide as the lanceolate 
body of the fruit, papery in substance, and easily splitting in the direc- 
tion of the striz. 
Fig. 1, Combretum Zeyheri, a branch in fruit ; 2, a young leaf and spike of flowers ; 
both the natural size. Fig. 3, a flower; 4, 2 of the calyx teeth, with an interposed pe- 
al; magnified. 
