352 Lii. COMBRETACE^. \Combretum 



rather rare ; foliage with flower-bud July 1855 ; without leaves with 

 flower-bud Sept. 1855 ; fl. beginning of Oct. 1855 ; fl. 8 Sept. 1856; 

 Oapopa, fr. August 1856. No. 4328. A shrub of 3 to 4 ft., perhaps 

 later forming a tree, very much branched from the base ; leaves dark- 

 green above, much paler beneath, attracting attention from a long 

 distance ; cotyledons corrugated, not convolute. On mountainous 

 declivities covered with species of Ai/dropoqnu among the mountains of 

 Alto Queta ; fr. end of May 1S55. No. 4331. Scandent ; trunk thick, 

 twining ; wood hard as iron ; leaves jjunctate between the very delicate 

 veinlets ; N-delle, fr. May 1856. No. 4326. An erect, much branched 

 little shrub, 2 to 3 ft. high ; leaves paler beneath. On grassy slopes 

 amongst the mountains of Serra de Alto Queta, in company with Molungo 

 {Erytftrhui^ suherifeni Welw.) and Cateta bulla (Thinea atitiscorbutica 

 Welw.) ; fr. May 1855. Coll. Carp. 551. 



Zenza do GoLUxao. — A shrub, 6 ft. high. On the drier hills 

 between Calumguembo and Montes de Mongolo ; fr. Sept. 1854. 

 No. 4327. 



Ambaca. — A shrub, 4 to 6 ft. high, very rarely a small tree, always 

 very much branched ; leaves deciduous at the time of flowering ; 

 flowers white. In level thickets between N-gombe and Puri-Cacar- 

 ambola ; fl. Oct. 1856. No. 4332. 



Var. undulatum. 



All the leaves closely wavy on the margin. 



LoANDA. — A little shrub, 2 to 3 ft. high, climbing amongst low 

 bushes ; branches slender and very numerous. On the slopes of Alto 

 das Cruzes ; without fl. June 1854. No. 4329. 



The following two Nos. difier by their leaves having a greatly 

 prolonged acumen at the apex in a similar way to that which 

 characterises C. HartTnannianuvi Schweinf. Fl. ^thiop. (i.) p. 24 

 t. 3a (1867) ; Laws., I.e., p. 431 :— 



GoLUXGO Alto. — A robust arborescent shrub ; trunk 2 to 3 in. in 

 diameter at the base, but twining ; branches elongated, flexuous, 

 climbing high and widely amongst bushes ; leaves thinly coriaceous, 

 shining above, canescent beneath, strongly wavy on the margin, 

 caducous at the time of flowering ; flowers, so far as can be judged 

 from their withered remains, whitish. At the borders of primitive 

 forests between N-delle and Cambondo, young f r. Jan., ripe f r, March 

 1856 ; in primitive forests near N-delle, young f r. Feb., ripe fr. April 

 1856. No. 4330. Scandent ; trunk 3 in. in diameter ; wood hard 

 as iron. At the borders of forests near N-delle and between it and 

 Cambondo ; young fr. Jan. and Feb. 1856. No. 4280. 



24. C. Zeyheri Sond. in Linnsea xxiii. p. 46 (1850) ; and in 

 Harv. & Sond. Fl. Cap. ii. p. 511 (1862); Harv. Thes. Cap. i. 

 p. 48 t. 75 (1860). 



HuiLLA. — A small tree, 8 to 15 ft. high, with golden-yellow fruit. 

 In little woods near the Monino, in company with Proteace^ ; fr. May 

 1860. No. 4371. 



25. C. argyrotriehum Welw. ex Laws, in Oliv., I.e., ii. p. 432. 



HuiLLA. — An erect undershrub, 1 to 2J ft. high, almost in every 

 part softly pubescent or white-silky, remarkably resembling in habit 

 some Rubiacefe ; rhizome thick, woody, giving ofE numerous stems ; 

 flowering plant conspicuously shining white with silky pilose hairs, 



