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MossAMEDES. — A robust shrub, climbing high and widely, becoming 

 hoary ; leaves opposite, densely tomentose beneath and also white- 

 punctate above. Abundant in tall thickets in Mata dos Carpenteiros ; 

 without either fl. or fr. July 1859. Nos. 4289 and 4346. 



3. LAGUNCULARIA Gjertn. f.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 688. 

 1. L. racemosa Gsertn. f. Fruct. iii. p. 209, t. 217, f. 3 (1805) ; 

 Welw. in Proceed. Linn. See. ii. p. 328 (1854); Lawson in Oliv. 

 Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 419. 



LoANDA. — A shrub standing erect, or a small tree of 5 to 7 ft. ; 

 flowers white. Abundant and nearly always in company with 

 Rhizophora and Avicennia, at the muddy sea-shore, near the city of 

 Loanda; at Zamba grande, frequently inundated by the sea; fl. July 1854. 

 No. 4347- Abundant also in like company on the island of Loanda, 

 at Cabo Lombo, etc. ; fl. from Oct to Dec. 1853. 



4. COMBRETUM Loefling, Iter, p. 308 (1758) ; L. Syst. edit. 10, 

 p. 999 (1759); Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 688. 



1. C. Klotzschii Welw. ex Laws, in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 422, 

 quoad specim. Welw. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A gigantic shrub, climbing high ; sarmentose 

 branches 20 to 25 ft. long ; leaves thick, not coriaceous, fallen at the 

 time of the flowers ; flowering branches often 2^ ft. long, as well as 

 the whole inflorescence, except the petals, glandular-viscid ; calyx 

 nerved-striate, pale-greenish, almost yellow-greenish ; petals of a deep 

 red-scarlet colour ; styles far exceeding the 10 stamens. In the more 

 elevated thickets and on sparingly-leafy trees at the skirts of forests, 

 on the north-east side of the mountains of Serra de Alto Queta ; fl. 

 and fr. July 1855. No. 4300. 



2. C. oxystachyum Welw. ex Laws., I.e., p. 422. 



Bdmbo. — A shrub, 3 to 5 ft. high, softly pubescent throughout, 

 sparingly and patently branched ; branches sometimes elongate- 

 sarmentose ; leaves alternate or opposite ; flowers scarlet, arranged in 

 acutely conical spicate racemes 2^ to 3 in. long, terminating the branches 

 and branchlets ; calyx-teeth long, acute, gradually acuminate ; petals 

 lanceolate, acuminate, rigid, hairy outside ; stamens 10 ; fruit 5- or 

 4-winged. In rocky tall-bushy places near Quitibe de Cima, at an 

 elevation of 2000 to 2500 ft., sparingly ; only one shrub seen in fl. and 

 (very few) fr. ; June 1860. No. 4309. 



3. C. celastroides Welw. ex Laws., I.e., p. 422. 



HuiLLA.— A much-branched shrub, 4 to 7 ft. high, very rarely 

 arborescent but scarcely scandent, or frequently a bush with a trunk 

 and more or less climbing branches, with the habit of a Celastrus ; 

 leaves lepidote beneath ; flowers yellow, tetramerous ; calyx densely 

 lepidote : disk present ; fruit densely lepidote. In hilly places amongst 

 tall bushes from MumpuUa up to Lopollo, especially in Morro de 

 LopoUo ; fl. bud Oct., fl. Dec. 1859, fr. March 1860 ; also in rocky 

 places, fr. end of March 1859 ; and in forests above Lopollo, Dec. 

 1859. Nos. 4370, 4389. Cf. Coll. Carp. 657 (part). 



4. C. grandiflorum G. Don in Edinb. Phil. Jovirn. 1824, p. 346 ; 

 Laws., I.e., p. 423. 



C. Afzelianimi G. Don, Gen. Syst. ii. p. 666 (1832). 



