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A tree, 25-30 ft. high, 15-18 inches in diameter ; flowers green, 
sweetly scented. 
Combretum Hilcherianum, Schinz? (C. EKilheri, Engler & Diels, 
Monog. Afr. Pflanz.-Fam, Combret. 61.) 
Botletle River, Lugard, 9. 
A tree, growing to 20 ft. high ; flowers whitish-green ; fruit flat, 
rown. 
Combretum kwebense, NV. &. Br. Frutex ramulis cinereo-tomen- 
tosis. olia opposita, breviter petiolata, elliptica vel subobovata, 
acuta, subcuspidata vel obtusa, basi emarginata vel leviter cordata, 
rimum utrinque pubescentia, demum glabrescentia, infra minute 
glandulosa. Sp/cae axillares, pedunculatae, breviter oblongae. Calycis 
tubus pubescens et glandulosus, 4-dentatus. Petala minuta, late 
cuneato-obovata et truncata vel rotundata, ciliata. Stamina exserta. 
A bush 10 ft. high, tomentose on the young shoots, becoming 
glabrous, with a brown bark. eaves opposite, contemporary with 
the flowers ; petiole 1-2 lin. long; blade 14-2 in. long, 10-15 lin, 
broad, elliptic or slightly obovate, acute, shortly cuspidate, or occa- 
sionally obtuse, emarginate or slightly cordate at the obtusely 
rounded base, at first thinly tomentose-pubescent on both sides, and 
minutely glandular beneath, becoming nearly glabrous above, with 
very minute whitish papillae in the dried state. Spikes axillary, 
simple. Peduncle 4-9 lin. long. Flowers sessile, yellowish-green, 
sweet-scented, crowded into an oblong spike 4-3 in. long and about 
zin.diam, Bracts minute, subulate. Caly«-tube pubescent and glan- 
dular, the part above the ovary broadly cup-shaped, thinly pubescent 
within, 4-toothed ; teeth deltoid, acute ; disk about } as long as the 
cup, with a free hairy margin, Petals minute, }-} lin. long and broad, 
broadly cuneate-obovate and truncate, or somewhat circular, ciliate. 
Stamens exserted, 2 lin. long; anthers very obtuse, Fruit not seen. 
webe, Lugard, 48. 
Allied to C. fulvotomentosum, Engl. & Diels. 
Combretum cataractarum, els. 
Lake River, Lugard, 15; Kwebe Hills, 3,200 ft., Lugard, 15a; 
Mrs. Lugard, 10, oe 
tree-creeper, up to 20 ft. high; flowers white, appearing in 
August and September, about a month before the leaves ; fruit 
Tusset-green or pink, 
Combretum apiculatum, Sond. 
Kwebe Hills, 3,300 ft., Mrs. Lugard, 25. 
A tree, 15 feet high. A very early flowerer, the same tree pro- 
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fusely in flower and full leaf together in December ; flowers green. 
LYTHRACEAE. 
Nesaea rigidula, Kochne. 
Botletle Valley, Lugard, 248. 
ONAGRARIEAE, 
Jussiaea repens, Linn 
n water at the junction of the Tamalakane and Botletle Rivers, 
Lugard, 3, : 
lowers primrose-yellow. 
