348 LIl, COMBRETACER. [Combretum 
beneath with whitish scales, beset above with whitish conical 
papille ; fruit yellow-dusky. 
Hvitia.—In the more open forests, consisting for the most part of 
Parinari and of various genera of Cesalpines, between Catumba and 
Hay ; at Monino, fl. Oct. 1859 ; fr. April 1860. No. 4876. 
Welwitsch noticed in several fruits that when very ripe and dry they 
split, not only at the apex but down nearly to the base, into four 
valves, and then the seeds fall out freely, 
15. C. angolense Welw. ex Laws. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 428. 
GoLuNGo ALTo.—Flowers hermaphrodite, whitish, turning into a 
pale-sulphur colour ; calyx-limb funnel-shaped, 4-toothed ; petals 4, 
broadly ovate-rotundate or almost orbicular, wedge-shaped at the base, 
glandular-ciliate or delicately fimbriate-dentate on the margin, white ; 
stamens 8 or exceptionally 7 or 6, exserted ; anthers reddish ; fruits 
always very densely crowded in little heads, mostly greenish-red or 
quite red, rather viscid, very shortly stipitate, emarginate at the apex, 
apiculate in the obtuse emargination, broadly 4-winged (in one instance 
7-winged). By thickets along palm-groves, Arimo do Mariano, sporadic, 
end of May 1855; in thickets by the river Cuango near Sange, 
beginning of June 1855 ; Bango road and at Cacarambola May 1856 ; 
Sange fl. 7 Sept. 1856 No. 43820, A subscandent shrub, 3 to 5 feet 
high, with whitish flowers. At the skirts of the drier thickets in Sobato 
de Mussengue, fl. end of May 1855 ; in the forests of the same, in late 
fr. Feb. 1855. No. 4321. A climbing shrub ; in thickets near Bango, 
fl. bud, July 1855. No. 4322, 
CazENGo.—A very widely climbing shrub; flowering branchlets 
ascending and then pendulous ; flowers whitish, In the primitive 
forests between Dalatando and Cambondo; fl. and fr. June 1855. 
No. 4323, A climbing or sarmentose shrub as tall as a man ; stem 
3 to 4 feet high; the whole plant hoary and clothed with an ashy- 
velvety tomentum ; stamens 8; fruit 4-winged. In secondary thickets 
at the base of the mountains of Muxaulo, sparingly ; fl. and fr. June 
1855. No. 4319. 
No. 4335, without locality, in fl. and fr., appears to belong to this 
species. 
16. C. laxiflorum Welw. ex Laws. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 
p. 428. 
Pungo AnponGo,—A handsome tree of moderate size, 25 to 35 feet 
high ; head ovoid, widely spreading ; branches and branchlets spread- 
ing ; wood whitish, very hard, almost as in Gusuzo (C. dipterum 
Welw.) ; leaves pellucid-punctate, densely lepidote beneath, as also the 
calyx with conspicuous branny scales; flowers yellowish or straw- 
coloured, whitish in bud ; stamens 8 ; ovary 2-ovuled ; style central, 
cylindrical, equally thick from the base to the apex ; disk 4-lobed ; lobes 
obtusely emarginate at the apex. In forests on a rich ferruginous clay 
near Quibanga, sporadic, fl. Jan. 1857 ; Pedras de Guinga, April 1857 ; 
in thickets and small woods by the river Luxillo near the bridge, in 
scarcely open fl. Jan. 1857, fr. end of April 1857. No. 4384 
17. C. rubiginosum Welw. ex Laws. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p.428. 
Puneo Anpongo.—A tree, 20 to 25 ft. high; branches erect-patent; 
leaves very glossy, lepidote beneath; fruit ruddy, densely clothed 
with red scales. In forests about Pedras de Guinga, up to an elevation 
of 4000 ft ; fr. Jan. 1857, No. 4369. 
