430 lv. combretace2E (lawson). [Combretum. 



the leafy branches. Calyx-limb tubular-campanulate ; teeth broadly 

 triangular, fringed with minute hairs, nearly glabrous. Petals minute, 

 obdeltoid. Fruit pedicellate, broadly oval, emarginate, 2 in. long, 

 If in. broad, pedicels slender, 1 in. long or more, dark brown or of a 

 brick-red colour. 



Lower Guinea. Angola, 5000 ft., Dr. Welwitsch I 



Mozamb. Distr. Tette, Zambesi, Dr. Kirk! 



According to Dr. Welwitsch, the leaves and fruit of a variety of this plant, called by 

 him C. tinctorum, are used by the natives as a yellow dye. It has fruit-stalks 1£ in. 

 long. 



33. C. paradoxum, Welw. mss. A wide-trailing shrub. Leaves 

 opposite, petiolate, nearly glabrous ; young leaves oblong-elliptical, 

 4J in. long by 2J broad ; adult leaves oblong-elliptical, shortly acu- 

 minate, 7 J in. long by 3 in., pale yellow above, dark olive green beneath, 

 sparingly lepidote and pellucidly punctate. Flowers in terminal fasci- 

 culated racemes 6 in. long. Calyx-tube quadrangular ; limb very- 

 short and almost square, lined at the base with a large fleshy disk ; teeth 

 inflexed and forming 4 pockets. Petals obovate. Stamens incurved, 

 rarely 4, and then opposite the petals. Fruit pedicellate, oblong-ellip- 

 tical, about 1J in. long and j in. broad, whole surface covered with a 

 velvety glandular chocolate-coloured scurf. 



Lower Guinea. Angola, Dr. Welwitsch I 



34. C. tetragonum, Laws. Shrub; branches round, tomentose. 

 Leaves opposite, very shortly petiolate, oval or elliptical, 3-5 in. long, 

 1J— 2| in. broad, of soft texture, pubescent, veins beneath hairy, inter- 

 mediate portions lepidote. Flowers ? Fruit sessile, in simple axillary 

 spikes, ovoid, 1J in. long, f in. broad, with 4 sharp angles not 

 winged, downy. 



Mozamb. Distr, Senaa, Zambesi, Dr. Kirk I 



35. C. holosericeum, Sond. Fl. Capensis, ii. 510. Small tree. Leaves 

 opposite, rarely 3 in a whorl, shortly petiolate, 2^-6 in. long by 2-3J 

 broad, broadly ovate or elliptical, sometimes subcordate at the base, and 

 notched at the apex, covered with a dense white velvety tomentum 

 which turns to a rich chocolate brown in drying, sometimes quite deci- 

 duous in the old leaves. Flowers in axillary spikes 2 in. long. Petals 

 minute, broadly reniform, depressed at the apex and fringed with hairs, 

 shortly clawed. Fruit subsessile, elliptical, f-1 in. long, glandular, 



blood-red. — Slieadendron molle, Klotzsch in Peters' Mossamb. Bot. 76. 

 f 7 



Lower Guinea. Angola, at the height of ;"3000 ft., Dr. Welwitsch I 



Mozamb. Distr. Chiradzura mountains, Dr. Kirk I 



Specimens collected by Dr. Welwitsch at a lower elevation in Angola have leaves 

 with glandular veins on the under surface ; fruit 14 lines long and 12 broad, nearly 

 orbicular and shortly pedicellate. This is also a South African species. 



36. C. tomentosum, Dm; DC. Prod. iii. 21. Shrub, climbing ; 

 branches villose, with rust-coloured hairs. Leaves shortly petiolate, 

 opposite, oblong-elliptical, mucronate, 1 j— 2 in. long, ferruginous, villose 



