(lomhretum] ui. comi?retace.i=:. 351 



obcordate, mucronate, beneath white-punctate especially along the 

 veins, and with raised reticulation ; fruit brilliantly blood-red or 

 purplish, obtuse at the base, emarginate at the apex, scattered on the 

 body and wings with atro-j)urpurcous dots. In sandy wooded places 

 along the banks of the river Cuanza, near Sansamanda ; fr. Feb. 1857. 

 Nos. 4377, and (without notes or locality) 4288. 



Httlla. — A tree of 10 to 15 ft., very rarely reaching 20 ft., with 

 the habit of a Psidi/an ; trunk bare at the base ; head widely spread- 

 ing, with a grey hue ; flowers turning yellow, atro-purpureous in bud ; 

 filaments blood-red. In open sandy forests near Lopollo, in company 

 with species of Profea and Acar'ni, abundant ; fl. Oct. 1859 ; without 

 fl. Dec. 1859 ; fr. Feb. and April 18(50. No. 4379. 



23. C. polystictum Welw. ms. in Herb. 



Cf. Comhretum (sp. n.), Welw. in Ann. Conselho Ultramar. Lisb., 

 May 1856, p. 250, n. 113. 



A closely branched erect or scandent shrub or a small tree ; 

 branches terete, glabrate or nearly so ; branchlets slender, puber- 

 ulous with short sub-fulvous hairs; leaves opposite, elliptic- 

 oblong, more or less acuminate at the apex, usually rounded 

 or subcordate at the base, thinly coriaceous or almost papery, 

 puberulous along the nerves or glabrate, 2 to 4 in. long by | to 

 1| in. broad, dark-green above, paler and closely scattered with 

 small pallid scales beneath ; petiole puberulous, ^ to :f in. long, 

 rather slender ; inflorescence cymose, axillary, lateral and terminal, 

 sometimes forming terminal panicles 6 to 9 in. long ; ultimate 

 pedicels short in flower, scaly ; calyx-limb campanulate, g in. 

 long, scaly outside, hairy inside especially over the lower part, 

 shortly 4-cleft ; lobes deltoid ; petals 4, broadly obovate or sub- 

 orbicular, about twice as long as the calyx-lobes ; stamens 8, 

 exceeding the calyx-limb by about its length ; fruit 4-winged, f to 

 g in. long, I to 1 in. broad, more or less densely scattered with 

 small scales. 



LoANDA. — A small shrub, semetimes 2 to 3 ft. high, sometimes 5 to 

 6 ft. In thickets about the city of Loanda and Cacuaco : fl. April to 

 June 1854. No. 4324. A shrub of 3 to 5 ft., the upgrowth from a 

 cut-down tree of 15 ft., usually very much branched in a casspitose 

 manner from the base ; leaves thinly coriaceous, rather rigid, dark- 

 green above, paler beneath, somewhat wavy on the margin ; flowers 

 tetramerous, small ; petals very polymor})hous, whitish-yellowish. In 

 dry hilly rocky thickets near Imlwndeiro dos Lobos and close to 

 Loanda, sporadic ; fl. end of April 1S54 ; fr. June 1858 and July 1854. 

 No. 4325- A shrub, 3 to 4 ft. high, occasionally subsarmentose, erect, 

 much branched. On bushy slopes near Penedo ; fr. Julvl854. Coll. 

 Carp. 553. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — In the thickets of the lower Queta and in Mata 

 do Mariano, fl. Oct. 1855 ; Capopa, fr. Aug. 1856. No. 4279. A tree 

 12 to 20 ft. higli, with the habit of Aiii//f/(l<iht.'< P, r><ira L., not yet 

 climbing ; branches spreading, virgate ; branchlets somewhat nodding ; 

 leaves caducous at the time of flowering, coriaceous, glandular-punctate. 

 Avavy ; flowers tetramerous, densely lepidote-scaly in bud ; petals 

 spathulate, pale yellow, quickly very pale ; stamens 8 : fruit rigid, 

 4-winged, wings coarsely crenate or suljcrenate, wavy. In bushy places 

 at the borders of forests at the base of the mountains of lower Queta, 



