Combretum.] lv. combretaceje (lawson). 427 



21. C. trancatum, Welw. mss. A large tree, young branches com- 

 pressed and covered with reddish or ash-coloured scales, the whole plant 

 otherwise glabrous. Leaves opposite, shortly petiolate, 2-3 in. long, 

 narrowly obovate, densely lepidote on both sides, which gives to the 

 plant a mealy appearance. Flowers small, in axillary and terminal 

 spikes about the length of the leaves ; buds pyramidal. Teeth of the 

 calyx broadly triangular. Petals minute, obovate. Style covered with 

 stipitate glands. Fruit very shortly pedicellate from a broad truncate 

 base, tipped at the apex with the persistent base of the style, densely 

 lepidote. 



Lower Guinea. Angola, on the /coast, Dr. Welwitsch! 



IVXozamb. Distr. L upata, Dr. Kirk I 



This species^may be readily distinguished from all other African Combreta by its 

 glandular style. The wood is described as being exactly like that of the lignum-vit®. 

 The native name for it in the Mozambique country is " Mozambiti." 



22. C. collinum, Fresen. in Mus. Senck. 1837, 153. Shrub ? erect,-, 

 young branches flattened or slightly grooved, glabrous or sparingly 

 lepidote. Leaves subopposite, petiolate, j in. long, narrowly ovate or 

 elliptical, 3-5 in. long, 1-2 in. broad, sparingly lepidote above, densely 

 so beneath. Flowers about 2 lines long, in weak simple axillary spikes 

 shorter than the leaves. Calyx-limb campanulate j teeth broadly tri- 

 angular, fringed with minute hairs. Petals very broadly obdeltoid 

 with undulated margins, shortly unguiculate. Fruit ? . . . . 



Upper Guinea. Nupe, Barter ! Senegal ! 



Nile Li and. On the banks of the Tacazze, Schimper! Gallabat, Schweinfurth ! 



Madi, Speke and Grant! 



Plants named by Planchon C. elceagnifolium, with flowers only, differ from the above 

 in their broader and blunter leaves. 



23. C. lepidotum, Hochst. ; Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. 268. Tree ; young 

 branches compressed, lepidote. Leaves opposite, very shortly petiolate, 

 2-4 in. long, ovate, acute, glabrous above and covered with glands 

 which secrete a viscid substance, densely lepidote beneath. Flowers 

 in short spikes from the axils of the leaves which they about equal in 

 length. Petals broadly obdeltoid, fringed with hairs. Fruit nar- 

 rowly oblong, lepidote. — C. punctatum, Rich. 1. c. 266 ; C. glutinosum, 

 Hochst. in Hb. Schimp. Abyss, (not Guill. et Perr.) C. vernicosum, 

 Fenzl in Flora, 1844, 312 ; C. Quartinianum, Rich. 1. c. 266. 



Nile Land. Abyssinia, Sennaar, Schimp'er 1 Nubia, Kotschy I 



Lower Guinea. Angola ? Dr. Welwitsch ! 



Under this species I have combined several varieties considered by Richard distinct 

 species, as after the examination of numerous specimens I do not think the form of the 

 leaves and the difference in the degree of scaliness and viscidity are sufficient by which 

 to distinguish them. The most distinct form is C. Quartinianum, in which the leaves 

 are much less viscid and scaly than in the rest, having little tufts of hair in the angles 

 formed by the veins on the under surface. Dr. Welwitsch's specimens from Angola 

 have broader leaves, which are covered with dense pubescence. It is called by some 

 of the colonists the Oak Cavilla. 



24. C. microphyllum, Klotzsch in Peters' Mossamb. Bot. 74. Shrub, 

 not climbing ; young branches round, pubescent. Leaves opposite, very 



