Combretuin] Lir. combretace^. 34D 



18. C. anisopterum Welw. ex Law.s. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr ii 

 p. 429. 



HuiLLA. — A small bushy tree, (> to !) ft. high, with a densely intricate 

 head ; ultimate branchlets more or less sarraentose, subscandent ; 

 flowers tetramerous, racemose-capitate, yellowish, but little scented, 

 those in the lower part of the raceme male (sterile V) with the tube 

 of the calyx quite filiform, those in the upper part fertile with the 

 inf^rior portion of the calyx acutely 3- or 4-winged ; calyx-limb of all 

 the flowers cyathiform, obscurely and shortly 4-toothed or sometimes 

 almost truncate without teeth ; petals yellow, obovate, very shortly 

 clawed ; the 4 lower filaments inserted beneath the disc, which is 

 rather thick and pilose around the base of the style. In the more 

 elevated densely bushy or wooded rocky parts of Morro de Lopollo ; 

 fl. Nov. and beginning of Dec. 1859 : fr. Feb. to end of March I860 

 No. 4374. Cf. Coll. Carp. 657 (part). 



19. C. dipterum Welw. ex Law.s. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 

 p. 429 ; Ficalho, PI. Uteis, p. 183 (1884). 



GoLUNGO Alt(i. — An immense tree; trunk 24 to 30 in. in diam. and 

 in rare cases reaching 42 in. ; wood very good, whitish, hard, dural)le : 

 flowers white, pleasantly aromatic. In forests from Sange to the 

 banks of the river Luinha, not uncommon ; fl. March 1855. Native 

 name " Goziiso." No. 4380. A tall tree with a Myrtaceous habit, 

 densely leafy, but in the flowering state almost entirely leafless and 

 in the fruiting state resembling an elm ; wood especially hard and 

 durable ; flowers white, agreeably fragrant. At the banks of the river 

 Delamboa in Sobato de Bumba, sporadic, fl. March, fr. April 1855 ; 

 and in forests between Cambondo and Trombeta and the river Luinha, 

 abundant, fl. March 1855. Native name " Gususso." No. 4381. A 

 shrub or perhaps in the primitive forests a tree, much branched : 

 branches and branchlets spreading ; leaves thinly coriaceous ; flowers 

 white. In secondary thickets amongst the mountains of Serra dt 

 Queta, sparingly in fl. 19 March 1856. No. 4382. 



A small elegant tree ; habit Myrtaceous or Combretaceous. Mountains 

 of Alto Queta ; fr. only, middle of Dec. 1854. Fruits larger than the 

 type, I to f in. long, probably the same species. Coll. Carp. 558. 



Cazengo. — A tree, 25 to 40 ft. high, apparently evergreen ; wood 

 hard, highly esteemed. In forests on both sides of the river Luinha ; 

 fr. 3- and 2-winged in the same head ; in leaf 26 Dec. 1854. Native 

 name " Gusvisu." No. 4383. 



20. C. tinctorum Welw. ex Laws, in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 

 p. 430; Ficallio, PI. Uteis, p. 183 (1884) (tinctormm). 



C. Kirkii, var., Laws., I.e. 



PuNGO Andongo. — A tree, 15 to 30 ft. high, sparingly branched, 

 with a lax head and almost the habit of C. bjiidotum A. Rich.; root 

 and occasionally the branches used to dye cloth and other fabrics 

 black ; leaves (including a petiole of j to W in.) 3 to 5 in. long by 1 .'. 

 to 2 in. broad, sparingly lepidote ; fruiting peduncles IJt to Ij in. long', 

 fruit If to 2 in. long, 1 to Ij in. broad, 4- or rarely 5-winged, mode- 

 rately rounded-eniarginate at both ends, yellow-greenish or greenish 

 even when ripe or yellowish or turning quite yellow, lepidote, pro- 

 ducing a yellow dye. In forests about the base of Serra de Pedras de 

 Guinga, at an elevation of 4000 ft., sporadic ; not quite ripe fr. March 

 1857. No. 4373. Native name " Lunga-lasoge." 



