344 LII, COMBRETACES. (Combretum 
purple. By the thickets of the fortress, near Luxillo, rather rare ; fr. 
Feb. 1857. No. 4354. 
8. C. flammeum Welw. ms. in Herb. ; : 
C. racemosum, var. flammeum Welw. ex Laws. in Oliv. FI. 
Trop. Afr, ii, p. 425. 
GoLuNGo ALTO.—An arborescent shrub, very widely and highly 
but not very highly climbing. Sange, fl. July 1856. No. 4295. 
Near Sange, 31 March 1856 ; fl. and fr. on the same plant. No. 4296. 
In Molemba (cf. Ficus) groves at Sange ; ripe fr. Nov. 1854, No. 4297. 
By side of and on the road from Cambondo to Trombeta; in 
the rainy season, Sept. 1854, without fl. or fr. No. 4298. A very 
beautiful prickly shrub, climbing extensively but not to a great 
height, glandular-downy when young ; leaves not coriaceous, opposite 
or occasionally ternate, pellucid-punctate, ciliate on the margin with 
hyaline hairs ; petioles in old age after the fall of the blades changed 
into turned-back prickles ; the floral leaves, bracts, pedicels, flowers, 
and the whole inflorescence carmine, flowers very handsome, tetra- 
merous, nearly sessile, appearing principally in the middle of winter 
and then often a plant of this shrub covers fences for a distance of 18 
to 30 ft. and makes it blaze as if on fire, afterwards flowering in Nov. 
and Dec. ; calyx glabrous except the tetragonal tube, which is rather 
shaggy on the angles, limb elongate-campanulate, viscid inside, teeth 
from a very broad base acute ; petals oblong, slightly attenuated but 
scarcely acute at the apex, densely downy outside, ciliate at the margin ; 
stamens far exserted ; style equalling the stamens; fruit smooth, 
4-winged, apiculate but not emarginate at the apex, wholly carmine. 
In thickets at the borders of the forest nearly throughout the district, 
fl. July and August 1855 and 1856 ; in the Molemba groves, at the end 
of Oct. 1855, fr. No.4351. A widely climbing shrub, very extensively 
sarmentose ; flowers and floral leaves bright blood-red. In secondary 
thickets after cultivation, in the garden of the residency, fl. Oct. 1854. 
Apparently this species. No. 4352. 
Ampaca.—aA shrub sometimes erect, sometimes sarmentose-scandent; 
fruit rose-purple. In neglected roadways ; fr. Oct. 1856. Apparently 
this species. No. 4355. 
9. C. paniculatum Vent. Choix Pl. sub n. 58 (1803); Laws. 
in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 425. 
GoLunco ALTO.—In thickets between Bango and Sange, fr. May 
1856 ; Cungulungulo, fl. No. 4284. A little shrub, 3 to 4 ft. high, 
standing erect ; Delamboa river, fl. end of August 1856. No. 4333. 
A leafless climbing shrub ; Bango road near Quilombo, fl. July 1856. 
No. 4334. Ponte de Luiz Simées ; fl. and fr. August 1855. No. 4336. 
A tall-climbing shrub, in the young state usually standing erect and 
remaining so during 2 to 4 years; leaves coriaceous, thick, brittle, 
very glossy on the upper-side, deciduous just at the time of flowering ; 
calyx 4-toothed, wholly yellowish-green, clothed with a loose tomentum, 
teeth deltoid ovate acuminate ; petals 4, short, ovate, more or less 
concave, delicately ciliolate at the apex and on the upper margin, 
deep-scarlet ; stamens 8, partly much paler than the calyx, inflected 
in the bud, far exserted in the full flower ; style purplish, exceeding 
the stamens. In thickets and also in dense primitive forests, climbing 
on the tallest trees; Ponte de Luiz Simdes, early fl. August 1858. 
No. 4359. A robust shrub ; stem often 3 in. in diameter at the base 
and more, 50 to 60 ft. long or even more, reaching the tops of the 
