344 Lii. COMBRETACE.E. [Combvetiom 



purple. By the thickets of the fortress, near Luxillo, rather rare ; fr. 

 Feb. 1857. Xo. 4354. 



8. C. flammeum \Vehv. ms. in Herb. 



C. racemosum, var. flammeum Welw. ex Laws, in Oliv. Fl. 

 Trop. Afr. ii. p. 425. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — An arborescent shrub, very widely and highly 

 but not very highly climbing. Sange, fl. July 1856. No. 4295. 

 Near Sange, 31 March 1856 ; fl. and fr. on the same plant. No. 4296. 

 In Molemba (cf. Ficus) groves at Sange ; ripe fr. Nov. 1854. No. 4297. 

 By side of and on the road from Cambondo to Trombeta : in 

 the rainy season, Sept. 1854:, without fl. or fr. No. 4298. A very 

 beautiful prickly shrub, climbing extensively but not to a great 

 height, glandular-downy when young ; leaves not coriaceous, opposite 

 or occasionally ternate, pellucid-punctate, ciliate on the margin with 

 hyaline hairs ; petioles in old age after the fall of the blades changed 

 into turned-back prickles ; the floral leaves, bracts, pedicels, flowers, 

 and the whole inflorescence carmine, flowers very handsome, tetra- 

 merous, nearly sessile, appearing principally in the middle of winter 

 and then often a plant of this shrub covers fences for a distance of 18 

 to 30 ft. and makes it blaze as if on fire, afterwards flowering in Nov. 

 and Dec. ; calyx glabrous except the tetragonal tube, which is rather 

 shaggy on the angles, limb elongate-campanulate, viscid inside, teeth 

 from a very broad base acute ; petals oblong, slightly attenuated but 

 scarcely acute at the apex, densely downy outside, ciliate at the margin ; 

 stamens far exserted ; style equalling the stamens : fruit smooth, 

 4-winged, apiculate but not emarginate at the apex, wholly carmine. 

 In thickets at the borders of the forest nearly throughout the district, 

 fl. July and August 1855 and 1856 ; in the Molemba groves, at the end 

 of Oct. 1855, f r. No. 4351. A widely climbing shrub, very extensively 

 sarmentose ; flowers and floral leaves bright blood-red. In secondary 

 thickets after cultivation, in the garden of the residency, fl. Oct. 1854. 

 Apparently this species. No. 4352. 



Ambaca. — A shrub sometimes erect, sometimes sarmentose-scandent; 

 fruit rose-purple. In neglected roadways ; f r. Oct. 1856. Apparently 

 this species. No. 4355. 



9. C. paniculatum Vent. Choix PL sub n. 58 (1803) ; Laws. 

 in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 425. 



GoLUNGO Alto. — In thickets between Bango and Sange, fr. May 

 1856 ; Cungulungulo, fl. No. 4284. A little shrub, 3 to 4 ft. high, 

 standing erect ; Delamboa river, fl. end of August 1856. No. 4333- 

 A leafless climbing shrub ; Bango road near Quilombo, fl. July 1856. 

 No. 4334. Ponte de Luiz Simoes ; fl. and fr. August 1855. No. 4336. 

 A tall-climbing shrub, in the young state usually standing erect and 

 remaining so during 2 to 4 years ; leaves coriaceous, thick, brittle, 

 very glossy on the upper-side, deciduous just at the time of flowering ; 

 calyx 4-toothed, wholly yellowish-green, clothed with a loose tomentum, 

 teeth deltoid ovate acuminate ; petals 4, short, ovate, more or less 

 concave, delicately ciliolate at the apex and on the upper margin, 

 deep-scarlet ; stamens 8, partly much paler than the calyx, inflected 

 in the bud, far exserted in the full flower ; style purplish, exceeding 

 the stamens. In thickets and also in dense primitive forests, climbing 

 on the tallest trees ; Ponte de Luiz Simoes, early fl. August 1858. 

 No. 4359. A robust shrub ; stem often 3 in. in diameter at the base 

 and more, 50 to 60 ft. long or even more, reaching the tops of the 



