Conibretum.] lv. combretace^: (lawson). 425 



Upper Guinea. Camaroons river, Mann ! Sierra Leone, Barter ! Fernando Po, 

 Mann ! 



Lower Guinea. Congo, Smith! Angola, Dr. Welwitsch! 



Var. flammeum, Welw. mss. differs from the above in its darker coloured calyx, red 

 stamens, and deep red bracts and leaves. Fruit nearly orbicular and often notched at 

 the apex. This is probably the C. macrocarpum of Beauv. : Highlands of Angola and 

 Sierra Leone. 



Dr. Welwitsch observes of this shrub, that when it is in flower it gives to the country 

 the appearance of being on fire, so abundant are its deep red flowers and bracts. 



14. C. capituliflorum, Fenzl ; Schweinf. in Reliq. Kutsch. 33. 

 Leaves opposite or ternate, petiolate, lanceolate, margins undulate and 

 thickened, 4-6 in. long-, glabrous on both sides, dotted beneath with 

 minute orbicular scales. Flowers sessile, in dense woolly pedunculate 

 heads J in. across, which are arranged in short terminal and axillary 

 panicles; bracts woolly, small, subulate, caducous. Calyx-tube .glo- 

 bular; limb broadly infundibuliform, teeth broadly triangular and 

 somewhat inflexed, glabrous within. Petals small, spathulate-obovate, 

 concave, entire or emarginate, fringed at the apex with a few delicate 

 hairs. Fruit shortly pedicellate, oblong, acute, 1-1 J in. long by J-§ in. 

 broad ; wings narrow, woody. 



Nile Land. White Nile, Betherick ! Nubia, Schweinfurth ! Madi (717), Speke 

 and Grant! 



A very distinct species. 



15. C. paniculatum, Vent. ; DC. Prod.iii.20. Shrub, erect or climb- 

 ing, 10-30 ft. Leaves subopposite or alternate, exceedingly variable 

 in size form and texture, 3 in. long, broadly elliptical, cordate, cuspidate, 

 puberulous ; or 7 in. long, oblong, smooth and membranous, shortly 

 acuminate with petioles 1 in. long ; or 4 in. long by 2 \ broad, coriaceous, 

 glabrous above, downy beneath, with very short petioles ; or 14 in. long 

 by 5^ broad, oblong-obovate, tapering below, cuspidate, glabrous and 

 membranous. Flowers red, fascicled, forming interrupted spikes which 

 are arranged in gigantic terminal panicles. Calyx-limb tubular, almost 

 black when dry. Petals very broadly ovate, almost orbicular, blood 

 red. Fruit on slender pedicels, obovoid, emarginate, 1J in. by 1 in., 

 pale coloured. — C. spinosmti, Don, DC. 1. c. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Don! and others. Prince's Island, Mann! Fer- 

 nando Po, Barter and Mann! Dahomey, Barter ! 



Lower Guinea. Angola, between 1500-2000 ft. Dr. Welwitsch! 



A most variable species, as far as the leaves are concerned ; but many of the speci- 

 mens from wbich the description given above is taken are so poor, that it is possible 

 there may be more than one species. 



16. C. virgatum, Welw. mss. Shrub 5-7 ft. high. ; young* branches 

 and leaves holosericeous with ferruginous pubescence ; old leaves also 

 distinctly tomentose. Leaves alternate, petiolate, oblong-lanceolate, 

 4-6 in. long. Flowers in numerous short dense spikes borne on virgate 

 branches 3-4 ft. high. Calyx-limb infundibuliform with short hair- 

 tipped teeth, limb and tube densely puberulous. Petals sessile, orbi- 

 cular, concave, red. 



Lower Guinea. Angola, between 3000 and 4000 ft., Dr. Welwitsch! 



