350 Lii. COMBRETACE^. [Conibretimi 



The following No., without either flower or fruit, resembles in 

 foliage this species : — 



GoLUNGO Alto. — A tree-like shrub, as tall as a man. Between 

 Cambondo and Trombeta, Sept. 1857. No. 4386. 



21, C. paradoxum Welw. ex Laws, in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 430. 

 GoLUXGC) Alto. — A robust shrub, very widely climbing ; fruiting 



branchlets nodding or pendulous ; leaves evergreen, the younger ones 

 herbaceous, the adult ones moderately coriaceous, yellow-green above, 

 more obscurely green below, peUucid-punctate, the fresh ones turning 

 yellowish in drying ; flowers tetramerous ; pedicels bearing a small 

 lepidote-tomentellous deciduous bracteole ; calyx obtusely 4-ribbed on 

 the inferior part, constricted above the ovary, shaggy inside, quickly 

 expanding into a shortly campanulate almost quadrangular cup, quasi 

 4-gibbous downwards, 4-lobed, limb inflected ; petals 4, obovate, from 

 whitish turning yellowish, a little longer than the calyx-teeth ; stamens 

 usually 8, 4 of which are higher than the others, occasionally only 4 

 and then opposite the petals ; anthers pale yellow ; disk rather thick, 

 ample, orbicular, nearly glabrous or thinly pubescent, covering the 

 inner face of the calyx-tube : style short, elongate-conical, rather thick : 

 stigma rather small; ovary 1-celled, 2- rarely 3- or very rarely 4-ovuled; 

 ovules pendulous ; funicles (if more than two ovules) unequal ; fruit 

 velvety. In primitive forests at the cataracts, near Fonte Capopa 

 behind Sange, sporadic ; fl. and fr. July and August 1855 and 185G. 

 No. 4385. A small tree ; branches scandent . leaves various in shape ; 

 flowers racemose-paniculate ; panicles "nodding ; calyx depresso-quad- 

 rangular; stamens 4. At Capopa; fr. July to Sept. Coll. Carp. 554. 

 An arborescent shrub, subscandent, with long sarmentose branches : 

 calyx quadrate, saccate ; stamens 4. In the Capopa forests ; fl. and fr. 

 August 1855. Coll. Carp. 555. 



22. C. holosericeum Sond. in Linnsea xxiii. p. 44 (1850) ; Laws, 

 in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 430 ; Ficalho, PI. Uteis, p. 183 (1884). 



C. psidioides Welw. in Ann. Conselho Ultramai-. Lisb., May 

 1856, p. 249, n. 108. 



LoANDA. — In coast situations a fairly elegant tree-like shrub with a 

 spreading head and the habit quite like a species of Psidhim, 5 to 8 ft. 

 high, or in the interior a copiously leafy tree of 15 to 25 ft.; branches 

 numerous, spreading ; branchlets and foliage clothed with a very soft 

 white-silky indumentum ; leaves obtuse, coriaceous, rigid ; fruit bril- 

 liantly or luridly blood-red and lepidote-punctate, 4-winged, racemose. 

 It affords excellent firewood, and is called by the negroes " Mube." In 

 rocky bushy places near Quicuxe and between it and MutoUo, rather 

 rare, fr. May and July 1854 ; in sandy and stony thickets in the same 

 vicinity, fr. 23 July 1857 ; at Bemposta, fr. 18 May 1859. No. 4378. 

 Coll. Carp. 549. A small tree of 7 to 9 ft., with the habit of 

 Psid'tum : trunk terminating with a broad head, unbranched below ; 

 leaves large, obovate-elliptical, tomentose, in thickets in the south-east 

 part of the district, near Quicuxe ; fr. July 1854. Coll. Carp. 5.")0. 



This small tree constitutes, together with some Acacias and Bur- 

 seracese, the principal parts of the thin sandy forests in the interior of 

 the districts of Loanda and Calumba, and furnishes the chief part 

 of the firewood used in Loanda ; the wood is also used for the building 

 of the huts, etc. 



PuMGO Andongo. — A beautiful tree, 20 to 25 ft. high, with a broad 

 spreading head ; branchlets purple ; leaves large, coriaceous, rigid. 



