Combretam] lii. coMBRETACE.f:. 353 



which at length in drying turn dusky ; flowers tetramerous, yellowish ; 

 style thickened in a clavate manner towards the apex ; fruit 4- (3- to 

 5-) winged, always ruddy or purple. In somewhat rocky thickets at 

 the borders of primitive forests near Mumpulla, sporadic ; fl. Oct. 1859; 

 towards Lopollo, fr. March and April 1860. No. 4375. 



26. C. platypetalum Welw. ex Laws, in Fl Trop. Afr. ii. p. 433. 



C. Oatesii Rolfe in Gates, Matabele Land, ed. 2 p. 399, t. 10 

 (1889). 



HuiLLA. — A little shrub, G to 18 in. high, branched from the base ; 

 primary stem abbreviated ; lateral branches decumbent or oblique, 

 leafy ; the younger branches silky with whitish hairs ; indumentum of 

 the whole plant whitish-silky in the living state, not tawny nor dusky 

 as afterwards in the herbarium ; leaves mostly alternate, coriaceous, 

 oblong-elliptical or obovate-elliptical, broadly subcordate at the base ; 

 bracts small, lanceolate, acute, shorter than the ovary ; calyx elongate- 

 campanulate, adpressedly pilose below, shortly 4 -toothed, teeth from a 

 broad base, abruptly subulate, cinnabar-red ; petals obovate, sub- 

 orbicular, sessile, with a broad base, concave, very obtuse or truncate or 

 subemarginate at the apex, very broad for the genus, margins laterally 

 overlapping, many times broader and longer than the calyx-teeth, 

 cinnabar-red (brightly so even after two years in the herbarium) ; 

 stamens 8, cinnabar-red ; filaments glabrous, rather thicker than usual 

 in the genus ; style straight, cylindrical, glabrous, shorter than the 

 stamens ; stigma terminal, sub-truncate ; ovary very shortly stalked, 

 narrowly ellipsoidal, densely pubescent ; fruit 4- winged, l^v in. long 

 by liV in. broad, smooth, scarlet. On shortly-bushy pastures between 

 Mumpulla and Humpata ; fl. and fr. Oct. 1859. No. 4356. 



5. CAMPYLOCHITON Welw. ms. in Herb., gen. nov. 

 Calyx adnate to the ovary and 5-ribbed or 5-furrowed at the 

 base, limb tubular, sub-cylindrical, moderately curved, produced 

 far above the ovary, shortly 5-cleft at the apex, more or less 

 shaggy within, deciduous. Petals 5, oval or ovate-lanceolate, 

 pointed at the apex, shortly clawed at the apex, nearly equal 

 among themselves, veiny, rather exceeding the calyx-lobes and 

 alternating with them, inserted at the top of the calyx-tube. 

 Stamens 10, exserted, inserted on the calyx-tube near its middle or 

 in two rows, the 5 longer filaments adnately decurrent lower down 

 the calyx-tube than the rest ; filaments all filiform, subulate at 

 the apex, following the curvature of the calyx-tube, indexed 

 in the bud ; anthers cordate -ovate, dorsifixed, introrse, 2-celled, 

 dehiscing longitudinally. Disk fleshy, cup-shaped, investing and 

 adnate to the lower part of the calyx-limb, with a 5-crenate free 

 apex ; the lobes obtuse, like folds or glands fasciculately bearded 

 at the apex and forming a ring below the middle of the calyx- 

 tube. Ovary campanulate, 1 -celled ; style filiform, nearly as 

 long as the stamens, somewhat curved, exserted ; stigma sub- 

 truncate or obscurely 5-lobed ; ovules about 4, pendulous from 

 the apex of the ovary-cell. Fruit with a central elongated- 

 ellipsoidal membranous-fibrous subspongy body and 5 or rarely 

 only 4 broad membranous or papery rigid semicircular coloured 

 wings ; seed solitar}', elongated ; embryo straight ; cotyledons 



