Combretum.\ lv. combretace^: (lawson). 433 



almost sessile, about 1 in. long and 8 lines broad, elliptical, tipped at 

 the apex with the persistent base of the style, densely puberulous. 



Lower Guinea. Angola, rising to 5000 ft., Dr. Welwitschl 

 Very closely allied to the next species. 



45. C. herbaceum, Don, DC. Prod. iii. 21. Stem herbaceous, 

 simple, 1 ft. high, proceeding from a woody base. Leaves subopposite 

 or alternate, lanceolate, mucronate, 3 in. long, covered with soft silky 

 hairs, often at length glabrous on the upper surface. Flowers in simple 

 axillary spikes nearly as long as the leaves. Petals small, oblong, 

 white. Fruit roundly oblong, abrupt at both ends, f in. long, shortly 

 stalked. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, T. Vogel! Nupe, Barter! 



46. C. platypetalum, Welrv. mss. Suffruticose ; 4 in. to 1 ft. ; young 

 shoots covered with a silky pubescence. Lower leaves opposite, upper 

 alternate, shortly petiolate, coriaceous, 1-3 in. long, elliptical-obovate, 

 reflexed at the apex, veins prominent. Flowers in dense stunted pani- 

 cles, frequently leafless. Calyx-limb elongate-campanulate, teeth short, 

 cuspidate, vermilion. Petals sessile, orbicular, 1 line long, vermilion. 

 Stamens generally 10. Fruit shortly pedicellate or sessile, elliptical, 

 1 \ in. long by 1 in. broad, vermilion. 



Lower Guinea. Angola, abounding in the low shrubby pastures at 5000 ft., 

 Dr. Welwitschl 



A beautiful species, readily known from the rest by its small habit and exquisite 

 red flowers. 



8. CACOTJCIA, Aubl. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, i. 688. 



Calyx curved, tube narrowly ovoid, rounded or 5-angled ; limb 

 ample, tubular-campanulate, furnished below the middle with a villous 

 ring or a membranous annular disk, 5-fid, deciduous. Petals 5. Sta- 

 mens 10 in two rows, curved, exserted ; anthers ovate-cordate. Ovary 

 1-celled, style filiform, elongated, curved ; stigma simple ; ovules 3-6. 

 Fruit coriaceous or membranous, 5-angled or broadly 5-winged, 1-seeded. 

 Seed sulcate, elongated, thick and fleshy. — Shrubs with robust scandent 

 branches. Leaves opposite. Flowers large, showy, bracteate, in simple 

 or compound racemes. 



A genus of 4 known species, found only within the Tropics of Western Africa and 

 Eastern America. 



A. Flowers in panicles. 



Flowering branchea clothed with long silky pubescence. Bracts 



large, persistent 1. C. villosa. 



Branches downy. Bracts caducous 2. C. paniculata. 



B. Flowers in simple terminal racemes. 



Fruit samaroid 3. C. bracteata. 



Fruit subpentagonal 4. C. coccinea. 



1. C. villosa, Laws. Shrub, climbing to 12 ft. high ; flowering 

 branches with bracts and flowers densely clothed with long silky hairs. 



