Combretum.] lv. combretace^ (lawson). 431 



beneath, covered with long silky deciduous hairs above. Flowers in long 

 woolly axillary spikes. Calyx-limb hemispherical, teeth almost obsolete. 

 Petals small, obovate, entire,from a wedge-shaped base, reflexed. Stamens 

 included. Fruit winged, elliptical, 1 in. long, emarginate, abrupt or 

 slightly cordate at the base, covered with a short dark rich red pubes- 

 cence. — C. chrysophyllum, Guill. et Perr. Fl. Seneg. 289. 



Upper Guinea. Senegal ! Sierra Leone, Afzelius ! 



South Central. Highlands of the Batoka country, Br. Kirk! 



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



37. C. Hartmannianum, Schweinf. in Fl. jflthiop. 24, t. 3. Tree ; 

 barren branches glabrous, flowering branches puberulous, with very 

 few leaves. Leaves petiolate, ovate, acuminate, acuminations as long or 

 longer than the rest of the leaf, glabrous, flaccid and shining. Flowers 

 small, in short axillary spikes. Petals small, orbicular, shortly clawed. 

 Fruit pedicellate, winged. 



Nile Land. Nubia, Schweinfurth ! 

 Lower Guinea. Baines ! 



38. C. myrtifolium, Laws. A shrub or small tree; branches 

 glabrous or clothed with long tomentose hairs. Leaves coriaceous, 

 opposite, with slender petioles 2-3 in. long, ovate-lanceolate, glabrous 

 on both sides or at length becoming so. Flowers small, on long pedicels, 

 in short axillary racemes, glabrous. Calyx-limb widely campanulate ; 

 teeth woolly, triangular, glabrous on the outside, filled with long white 

 hairs within. Petals small, broadly obovate, shortly clawed. Fruit 

 about \ in. long, with the wings often incomplete, on long pedicels, 

 variable in shape ; wings light yellow, disk darker. 



Mozamb. Distr. Lupata and Tette, Zambesi, Br. Kirk ! 



This plant is closely allied to C. Kraussii, Hochst., a South African species, in \\hich 

 the leaves are obovate. 



39. C. nigricans, Lepr. in Fl. Seneg. 290. Small tree ; branches 

 round, subfastigiate ; young branches and petioles covered with a fine 

 ash-coloured pubescence. Leaves opposite, ovate-lanceolate, 4-6 in. 

 long, glaucous above, finally puberulous beneath, drying blackish. 

 Flowers ? . . . Fruit in long lax racemes, oblong, about 1 in. long. 



Upper Guinea. Senegambia ( Guill. and Perr.). 



Guill. and Perr. observe that this species is closely allied to C. altum, from which, 

 however, it differs in the size and shape of its fruit r and in its leaves being puberu- 

 lous and not lepidote beneath. 



40. C. trichanthum, Fresen. in Mus. Senck. 1837, 155. Small 

 tree ; young branches pubescent. Leaves opposite, shortly petiolate, 

 4-8 in. long, elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, hairy often 

 densely so when young, at length becoming nearly glabrous above. 

 Flowers small, in axillary spikes. Petals minute, obdeltoid, fringed 

 at the top with minute hairs. Fruit pedicellate, oval, wings slightly 

 puckered, puberulous. 



Var. Young leaves and inflorescence covered with tomentose pubescence. — 

 C. Schimperianum, C. Buppettianum, and C. ferrugineum, Rich. Fl. Abyss, i. 265-7; 



