348 Lii. COMBRETACE^. [C omhretum 



beneath with whitish scales, beset above with whitish conical 

 papillse ; fruit yellow-dusky. 



HuiLLA.— In the more open forests, consisting for the most part of 

 Parinuri and of various genera of Caasalpinece, between Catumba and 

 Hay ; at Monino, fl. Oct. 1859 ; fr. April 1860. No. 4376. 



Welwitsch noticed in several fruits that when very ripe and dry they 

 spht, not only at the apex but down nearly to the base, into four 

 valves, and then the seeds fall out freely. 



15. C. angolense Welw. ex Laws, in Oliv, Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 428. 

 GoLUNGO Alto. — Flowers hermaphrodite, whitish, turning into a 



pale-sulphur colour ; calyx-limb funnel-shaped, 4-toothed ; petals 4, 

 broadly ovate-rotvindate or almost orbicular, wedge-shaped at the base, 

 glandular-ciliate or delicately fimbriate-dentate on the margin, white ; 

 stamens 8 or exceptionally 7 or G, exserted ; anthers reddish ; fruits 

 always very densely crowded in little heads, mostly greenish-red or 

 quite red, rather viscid, very shortly stipitate, emarginate at the apex, 

 apiculate in the obtuse emargination, broadly 4-winged (in one instance 

 7- winged). By thickets along palm-groves, Arimo do Mariano, sporadic, 

 end of May 1855 ; in thickets by the river Cuango near Sange, 

 beginning of June 1855 ; Bango road and at Cacarambola May 1856 ; 

 Sange fl. 7 Sept. 1856. No. 4320. A subscandent shrub, 3 to 5 feet 

 high, with whitish flowers. At the skirts of the drier thickets in Sobato 

 de Mussengue, fl. end of May 1855 ; in the forests of the same, in late 

 fr. Feb. 1855. No. 4321. A climbing shrub ; in thickets near Bango, 

 fl. bud, July 1855. No. 4322. 



Cazengo.— A very widely climbing shrub ; flowering branchlets 

 ascending and then pendulous ; flowers whitish. In the primitive 

 forests between Dalatando and Cambondo ; fl. and fr. June 1855. 

 No. 4323. A climbing or sarmentose shrub as tall as a man ; stem 

 3 to 4 feet high ; the whole plant hoary and clothed with an ashy- 

 velvety tomentum ; stamens 8 ; fruit 4-winged. In secondary thickets 

 at the base of the mountains of Muxaulo, sparingly ; fl. and fr. June 

 1855. No. 4319. 



No. 4335, without locahty, in fl. and fr., appears to belong to this 

 species. 



16. C. laxiflorum Welw. ex Laws, in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 

 p. 428. 



PuNGO Andongo. — A handsome tree of moderate size, 25 to 35 feet 

 high ; head ovoid, widely spreading ; branches and branchlets spread- 

 ing ; wood whitish, very hard, almost as in Gusuzo (C. dipterurn 

 Welw.) ; leaves pellucid-punctate, densely lepidote beneath, as also the 

 calyx with conspicuous branny scales ; flowers yellowish or straw- 

 coloured, whitish in bud ; stamens 8 ; ovary 2-ovuled ; style central, 

 cylindrical, equally thick from the base to the apex ; disk 4-lobed ; lobes 

 obtusely emarginate at the apex. In forests on a rich ferruginous clay 

 near Quibanga, sporadic, fl. Jan. 1857 ; Pedras de Guinga, April 1857 ; 

 in thickets and small woods by the river Luxillo near the bridge, in 

 scarcely open fl. Jaij. 1857, fr. end of April 1857. No. 4384. 



17. C. rubiginosum Welw. ex Laws, in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p.428. 

 PuNGO AxDoNGO. — A ti'ee, 20 to 25 ft. high; branches erect-patent; 



leaves very glossy, lepidote beneath ; fruit ruddy, densely clothed 

 with red scales. In forests about Pedras de Guinga, up to an elevation 

 of 4000 ft ; fr. Jan. 1857. No. 4369. 



