340 LII, COMBRETACEZ. [Zerminalia 
oblong, glabrate, drupaceous, surrounded by a broad flat purplish 
wing, 12 to 2 in. long by 2 to 1 in. broad, emarginate at the 
apex, somewhat narrowed towards the base ; central portion bony, 
very hard, 1-seeded; fruiting racemes 1 to 22 in. long, pedicels. 
ranging up to 7 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, 13 to 13 in. long by 1 to 1} in. broad, 
deep blood-red; leaves rather oblanceolate, nearly glabrescent 
except the veins beneath. 
Mossamepes,—In sandy thickets, near the town, at Boca do Rio 
Bero, on the sea coast ; fr. July 1859. Nos. 4291 and 4337. Cox. 
Carp. 106 and 548. 
Hovitita.—In bushy, hilly, rather dry places between Lopollo and 
Nene ; fl. Dec. 1859, young fr. Feb. 1860 (fr. April). No flowers have- 
been preserved. No. 4292. p 
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, 24 to 63 in. long 
by 14 to 28 in. broad, entire, thinly coriaceous; venation in- 
conspicuous ; flowers polygamo-dicecious, j4, 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 18 in. long: 
by 1 to 13 in. broad. 
Huiiia.—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. Cozi. Carp. 86. 
2. GUIERA Juss. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. i. p. 687. 
1. G, senegalensis Lam. Tabl. Encycl. ii. p. 486, t. 360, fig. sup. 
(1793); Pers. Syn. Pl. i. p. 470 (1805); Poir. Encycl. Méth. 
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 Rees, Cycl. vol. xvii, (1811). Gujera. 
senegalensis Gmel. Syst. ii. p. 675 (1791). 
