338 LIL, COMBRETACES. [Terminalia 
species ; Welwitsch never noticed in Angola whitish or yellow 
petals in the typically red-flowering species, nor red petals in the 
typically white or yellowish species. 
The wood of several species of Terminalia and of the arbores- 
cent Combreta is very valuable and held in high estimation by the 
colonists, as for instance that of the Méeia and the Gustisu. The 
roots and bark of some species are used as yellow and black dyes ; 
and those of others as an astringent in skin diseases and diarrhea. 
T. Catappa 1., which has been long cultivated in the Cape de 
Verde Islands and in St. Thomas and Prince’s islands, is a capital 
tree for avenues and moreover supplies well-flavoured seeds. 
Laguncularia racemosa Gaertn, f. is well suited for making dams 
to prevent the washing away of the beach on the sea-shore ; it 
grows almost exclusively and thrives well in salt water, in 
company with Avicennia and Rhizophora ; in some negro villages 
the bruised leaves are employed for tanning and dyeing brown 
fishermen’s nets, either alone or mixed with the leaves of Chryso- 
balanus Icaco L. The Mube, Combretwm holosericeum Sond., 
supplies the people of Loanda with excellent firewood, and on that 
account has become rarer and rarer in that neighbourhood. The 
flowers of most species afford ample food for bees. 
1. TERMINALIA L.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. i. p. 685 
(excl. syn. Bucida L.). 
1. T. Catappa L. Mant. Pl. ii. p. 519 (1771); Welw. Apont. 
p. 567 sub n. 164; Laws. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii, p. 416; 
Ficalho, Pl. Uteis, p. 182 (1884). 
Buceras Bucida Crantz, Inst. i. p. 133 (1766). 
IsLanp oF St. THoMAs.—Coast region, in the ascent to Fazenda do 
Monte Caffé ; fl. without fr. end of Dec. 1860. Cultivated under the 
name of ‘“ Amendoeira das Westindias,” but a native of the East 
Indies. No. 4293d and Cou. Carp. 19. 
CaPE DE VERDE IsLANDS.—A handsome tree, about 25 ft. high. 
Cultivated in S. Iago, in Valle de 8. Domingo, in gardens, etc., and 
called ‘‘ Amendoeira da India” (the Indian almond tree) ; fl. and fr. 
Jan. 1861. No. 4293. Ripe fr. Jan. 1861. “ Amendoeira das West- 
indias.” Cou. Carp. 547. 
Welwitsch recommended that this tree should be introduced in 
Angola. (See Welwitsch, /.c.) 
2. T. sericea Burch. ex DC. Prodr. iii. p. 13 (1828) ; Laws., Le. 
Var. angolensis. 
T. angolensis Welw. ex Ficalho in Bol. Soc. Georg. Lisb., ser. 2, 
p. 708 (Feb. 14, 1882), and Pl. Uteis, p. 182 (1884); Elliot in 
Journ. Linn. Soc. xxx. p. 79 (1894); 20. Hoff : : 
xliii. p. 131 (1881). ( ) offmann in Linnea 
AmpBaca.—A sparingly leafy tree, 15 to 20 ft. high ; trunk straight < 
head widely spreading ; leaves thinly coriaceous, evergreen greenish. 
glaucous, rather bright, paler beneath ; flowers white. In mountainous 
rocky places near the cave at Puri-Cacarambola, at an elevation of 
about 3000 feet, not abundant ; fl. middle of Oct. 1856. No. 4339 
