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MossaMEDES.—A robust shrub, climbing high and widely, becoming 
hoary ; leaves opposite, densely tomentose beneath and also white- 
punctate above. Abundant in tall thickets in Mata dos Carpenteiros ; 
without either fl. or fr. July 1859. Nos. 4289 and 4346. 
3. LAGUNCULARIA Gertn. f.; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. i. p. 688. 
1. L. racemosa Gertn., f. Fruct. iii. p. 209, t. 217, f. 3 (1805) ; 
Welw. in Proceed. Linn. Soe. ii. p. 328 (1854); Lawson in Oliv. 
Fl. Trop. Afr. ii, p. 419, 
Loanpa.—A shrub standing erect, or a small tree of 5 to 7 ft.; 
flowers white. Abundant and nearly always in company with 
Rhizophora and Avicennia, at the muddy sea-shore, near the city of 
Loanda; at Zamba grande, frequently inundated by the sea; fl. July 1854. 
No. 4347. Abundant also in like company on the island of Loanda, 
at Cabo Lombo, etc. ; fl. from Oct to Dec. 1853. 
4, COMBRETUM Loefiing, Iter, p. 308 (1758); L. Syst. edit. 10, 
p. 999 (1759); Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. i. p. 688. 
1. C. Klotzschii Welw. ex Laws. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 422, 
quoad specim. Welw. 
GoLunco ALTo,—A gigantic shrub, climbing high ; sarmentose 
branches 20 to 25 ft. long ; leaves thick, not coriaceous, fallen at the 
time of the flowers ; flowering branches often 2} ft. long, as well as 
the whole inflorescence, except the petals, glandular-viscid ; calyx 
nerved-striate, pale-greenish, almost yellow-greenish ; petals of a deep 
red-scarlet colour ; styles far exceeding the 10 stamens. In the more 
elevated thickets and on sparingly-leafy trees at the skirts of forests, 
on the north-east side of the mountains of Serra de Alto Queta ; fl. 
and fr. July 1855. No. 4300. 
2. C. oxystachyum Welw. ex Laws., l.c., p. 422. 
Bumso.—A shrub, 3 to 5 ft. high, softly pubescent throughout, 
sparingly and patently branched; branches sometimes elongate- 
sarmentose ; leaves alternate or opposite ; flowers scarlet, arranged in 
acutely conical spicate racemes:2} to 3 in. long, terminating the branches 
and branchlets ; calyx-teeth long, acute, gradually acuminate ; petals 
lanceolate, acuminate, rigid, hairy outside ; stamens 10; fruit 5- or 
4-winged. In rocky tall-bushy places near Quitibe de Cima, at an 
elevation of 2000 to 2500 ft., sparingly ; only one shrub seen in fl. and 
(very few) fr. ; June 1860. No. 4309. 
3. C. celastroides Welw. ex Laws., l.c., p. 422. 
Hvitta.—A much-branched shrub, 4 to 7 ft. high, very rarely 
arborescent but scarcely scandent, or frequently a bush with a trunk 
and more or less climbing branches, with the habit of a Celastrus ; 
leaves lepidote beneath ; flowers yellow, tetramerous ; calyx densely 
lepidote : disk present ; fruit densely lepidote. In hilly places amongst 
tall bushes from Mumpulla up to Lopollo, especially in Morro de 
Lopollo ; fl. bud Oct., fl. Dec. 1859, fr. March 1860 ; also in rocky 
places, fr. end of March 1859; and in forests above Lopollo, Dec. 
1859. Nos. 4370, 4389. Cf. Coty. Carp. 557 (part). 
4, C. grandiflorum G. Don in Edinb. Phil. Journ. 1824, p. 346 ; 
Laws., i.¢., p. 423. 
CO. Afzelianum G. Don, Gen. Syst. ii. p. 666 (1832). 
