Combretum] LII. COMBRETACEA, 345 
tallest trees, and there with its innumerable flowers decking the tops 
with a scarlet cloak. In the elevated forests of Cungulungulo in 
Sobato Calanga, etc., flowering throughout the year; fl. July 1855. 
No. 4360. Leaves coriaceous and glossy, not opaque nor herbaceous ; 
flowers carmine. On the way to Ambaca from Ponte de Luiz Simoes, 
fl. June 1855; between Sange and Ponte de Luiz Simées, fl. end of 
July. No. 4861. A tall-climbing shrub, with bright-scarlet flowers. 
By thickets between Sange and Ponte de Luiz Simoes; fl. end of 
July 1855. No. 4362. A shrub climbing to a great height, spiny in 
old age ; flowers of a fiery-red colour, octandrous ; leaves coriaceous, 
very glossy. Abundant in primitive forests, and standing erect in 
secondary thickets near Sange ; Quibolo, fl. July 1856; Delamboa, 
fl. August 1856. No. 4366. A stout shrub, climbing high, with scarlet 
flowers. In thickets between Bango and Sange; fr. May 1856. 
No. 4367. 
CazENGO.—A climbing arborescent shrub. Mata de Cabondo ; fl. 
June 1855. No. 4363. 
ZENZA DO GOLUNGO.—Leaves coriaceous, very shining, ovate- 
elliptical or occasionally nearly round-ovate ; flowers scarlet. In 
thickets from Quicanda to Tanderaxique ; fl. Sept. 1854. No. 4364. 
A shrub climbing high and widely, nearly leafless at the time of 
flowering, the lowest branches furnished with flower-buds and leaves 
almost all destroyed by insects, the branches in the middle of the 
climbing stem in full flower, while of the lateral branchlets some already 
bear fruits and others have foliage only, all on the same individual 
plant at the same time; leaves varying in consistency to an extra- 
ordinary degree ; flowers bright-scarlet ; stamens 8 ; fruits remarkable 
for their silvery-golden lustre. On bushy slopes of the Montes de 
Mongélo ; fl. and unripe fr. Sept. 1854. No. 4358. 
The following No. is perhaps a form of this species :— 
GoLtunco ALTo.—A very glossy-green, prickly shrub, extensively 
climbing by tall thickets ; without fl. or fr. Nov. 1855.—ZEnza Do 
GoLunGo.—Flowers scarlet ; Bango road, May 1856. No. 4368. 
10. C. virgatum Welw. ex Laws. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 425. 
Puneo ANDonGo.—A virgate-sarmentose shrub, 5 to 7 feet high, 
clothed on most parts with whitish silky-shaggy hairs; stems numerous, 
erect-spreading, sparingly branched ; leaves silky-tomentose, even the 
adult ones velvety-tomentose beneath, but the tomentum cottony or 
more cottony than on the young leaves which are densely tomentose 
and remarkable for a coppery-tawny gloss; flowers often on leafless 
branches, brilliant vermilion, the most brilliant of all species seen 
by Welwitsch in tropical Africa, very densely clustered, tetramerous ; 
calyx-limb campanulate, teeth deltoid abruptly acuminate bearded 
at the apex with bundles of rather rigid hairs erect ; petals scarlet, 
broad, suborbicular, very obtuse, scarcely clawed, but little or scarcely 
longer than the calyx-teeth ; stamens 8, tolerably robust, moderately 
exserted, scarlet ; style straight, shorter than the stamens ; bracteoles 
narrow, acute, equalling or a little longer than the ovary, caducous. 
In thickets at the banks of the river Cuanza, sporadic ; fl. April 1857. 
No. 4357. 
11. C. virgultosum Welw. ms. in Herb. 
A shrub, 5 to 8 feet high; stems numerous, long, virgate- 
sarmentose, erect, subterete, softly whitish-silky (turning reddish- 
brown in drying) when young, obsoletely so afterwards ; leaves 
