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tusque; rami virgali longi adscendenles 4-alati. Folia opposila crebra 

 lineari-hastata, nervo medio prominente, rigida, 8-12 mm. Flores parvi 

 creberrinii, in corymbos pedimciilatos axillares dispositi, aut ad apices 

 ramorum lerni gemini solilariive. Calyx turbinato-campanulalus; loborum 

 4 introflexi, eliam 4 cornuformes extus dejecti brèves. Petala violascenlia 

 calycem vix excedenlia. Slamina lobis inlroflexis opposila, fere ad medium 

 lubi calycini exserta, inclusa. Capsula calyce semivesliLa, slylo brevi apicu- 

 lata, membranacea, riibro-fusca. 



Yery near A. floribunda: it is allogelher différent in habit, and is dis- 

 tingiiished from it by ils branches very much longer, which have four 

 angles so salient that they appear winged, and bearing leaves in which 

 the successive pairs are much doser logether, and in form more haslate 

 at the base. Not noted from Gambia in Koehne'sMonographof Lythraceée, 

 p. 49 (1903). 



Farn. 16. RHIZOPHORACE^ 



52. Rhizophora mangle L. — Mangrove swamps abound along 

 Ihe river and extend into the creeks. In the counlry round Balle, on 

 Suarra Kunda creek, in Jokadu district, the mangrove trees are very liigh 

 (Bowdich, Lester, Perrottet). 



Fam. 17. COMBRETACE^ 



53. Guiera Senegalensis Lamk. — Bahanghar. in Upper Baddibu 



district (Lester, n. 72 N). 



54. Gombretum comosum G. Don 2"^^ — Albreda; F S T. 286. 



55. Gombretum mucronatum Scham, et Thonn. — Albreda ; 

 F S T. 284. Ballanghar (Lester, n. 69 N}. Gunjour, in S. Kommbo district 

 (Lester, n. 12 S). North bank of the river (Ozanne, n. 13). 



56. Gombretum nigricans Leprieur. — Along the banks. 



57. Gombretum paniculatum Yen t. — Bakkendik, in Upper 

 Niumi district (Lester, n. 33 S). 



58. Gombretum racemosum Beauv. — Albreda ; FST. 285, t. 67. 



Bakkendik (Lester, n. 29 N). North bank (Ozanne, n. IV, — leaves only). 

 Native name « topp ». The young small leaves are used for killing round 

 Worms in children, and the gum is used for toothache. 



59. Terminalia avicennioides Guill. et Perr. — Albreda, in 

 Lower Niumi district. 



60. Terminalia catappa L. — FT A. IL 416; much cultiva ted in 

 the Gambia ; a native of India. 



61. Terminalia Elliotii Engl, et Diels, inEngl.Monogr.Afr. Pflanz. 

 Fam. Gatt. IV. p. 12, t. 3 b (1899). — North bank (Ozanne, n. 12, —which 

 agrées with Mr. Scott Elliot's spécimens, n. 5200, from Sierra Leone). 



62. Terminalia macroptera Guill. et Perr. — (Ingramj. Albreda 

 (Perrottelj. 



