340 Lii. COMBRETACE^. [Terininalici 



oblong, glabrate, drupaceous, surrounded by a broad flat purplish 

 wing, 1| to 2 in. long by | to 1 in. broad, emarginate at the 

 apex, somewhat narrowed towards the base ; central portion bony, 

 very hard, 1 -seeded; fruiting racemes 1 to 2 5^ in. long, pedicels 

 ranging up to ^ in. long. 



Benguella. — In bushy places at the sea coast near the city ; fr. 

 June 1859. Nos. 4290 and 4344. 



Var. ovalis. 



Fruit oval in outline, li to 1| in. long by 1 to Ig in. broad, 

 deep blood-red ; leaves rather oblanceolate, nearly glabrescent 

 except the veins beneath. 



MosSAMEDES. — In sandy thickets, near the town, at Boca do Rio 

 Bero, on the sea coast ; fr, July 1859. Nos. 4291 and 4337. Coll. 

 Carp. 106 and 548. 



HuiLLA. — In bushy, hilly, rather dry places between Lopollo and 

 Nene ; fl. Dec. 1859. youn^ fr. Feb. 1860 (fr. April). No flowers have 

 been preserved. No. 4292. 



4. T. brachystemma Welw. ms. in Herb., sp. n. 



A tree, 15 to 20 feet high, glabrous throughout except the very 

 young leaves pedicels bracteoles and part of the flowers, with the 

 habit of an Anacardium ; head very broad ; branches patent ; 

 leaves alternate, scattered on the barren shoots, crowded at the 

 extremities of the flowering branches, sessile or at length shortly 

 petiolate, obovate or obovate-elliptical, rounded obtuse or 

 emarginate and abruptly acuminate cuspidate apiculate or 

 mucronate at the apex, gradually attenuated towards the base, 

 deep-green above, whitish -glaucous beneath, 2| to 6| in. long 

 by Ig to 2 1 in. broad, entire, thinly coriaceous; venation in- 

 conspicuous ; flowers polygamo-dicecious, ^^ in. diam., on short 

 pubescent pedicels, arranged in spikelike shortly pedunculate 

 racemes 1 to 2 in. long ; bracteoles lanceolate, about equalling 

 the pedicels, pubescent outside, deciduous ; calyx yellowish -green 

 or whitish, puberulous or glabrescent, 5-cleft ; lobes deltoid at 

 the base, with a prolonged tip ; stamens shorter than or scarcely 

 exceeding the calyx ; ovary pilose ; style prolonged, glabrescent ; 

 fruit glaucous-purple, glabrate, oval, somewhat compressed, 

 surrounded with a broad wing, emarginate at the apex, some- 

 what narrowed or nearly rounded at the base, 1 to 1|^ in. long 

 by 1 to Ig in. broad. 



HuiLLA. — In open woods, in rocky places, at an elevation of 5000 

 to 5600 ft., between Lopollo and Empalanea ; fl. Oct. 1859 ; fr. May 

 1860. Nos. 4287 and 4345. Cf. Coll. Carp. 86. 



2. GUIERA Juss. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 687. 



1. G. senegalensis Lam. Tabl. Encycl. ii. p. 486, t. 360, fig. sup. 

 (1793); Pers. Syn. PI. i. p. 470 (1805); Poir. Encycl. Meth. 

 Suppl. ii. p. 861 (1811); Guill. & Perr. Fl. Seneg. p. 282, t. 66, 

 fig. 2 (1833) ; Laws, in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 418. 



G. glandulosa Sm. in Pees, Cycl. vol. xvii. (1811). Gujera 

 senegalensis Gmel. Syst. ii. p. Qlb (1791). 



