Combretum] LII, COMBRETACER. 349 
18. C. anisopterum Welw. ex Laws. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr, ii. 
p. 429. 
Hurtia.—A small bushy tree, 6 to 9 ft. high, with a densely intricate 
head ; ultimate branchlets more or less sarmentose, subscandent ; 
flowers tetramerous, racemose-capitate, yellowish, but little scented, 
those in the lower part of the raceme male (sterile ?) with the tube 
of the calyx quite filiform, those in the upper part fertile with the 
inferior portion of the calyx acutely 3- or 4-winged ; calyx-limb of all 
the flowers cyathiform, obscurely and shortly 4-toothed or sometimes 
almost truncate without teeth; petals yellow, obovate, very shortly 
clawed; the 4 lower filaments inserted beneath the disc, which is 
rather thick and pilose around the base of the style. 1n the more 
elevated densely bushy or wooded rocky parts of Morro de Lopollo ; 
fl. Nov. and beginning of Dec. 1859; fr. Feb. to end of March 1860. 
No. 4374. C£. Cou. Carp. 557 (part). 
19. ©. dipterum Welw. ex Laws. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 
p. 429; Ficalho, Pl. Uteis, p. 183 (1884). 
Gotunco ALTo.—An immense tree; trunk 24 to 30 in. in diam. and 
in rare cases reaching 42 in.; wood very good, whitish, hard, durable ; 
flowers white, pleasantly aromatic. In forests from Sange to the 
banks of the river Luinha, not uncommon; fl. March 1855. Native 
name “Goztiso.” No. 4380. A tall tree with a Myrtaceous habit, 
densely leafy, but in the flowering state almost entirely leafless and 
in the fruiting state resembling an elm; wood especially hard and 
durable ; flowers white, agreeably fragrant. At the banks of the river 
Delamboa in Sobato de Bumba, sporadic, fl. March, fr. April 1855 ; 
and in forests between Cambondo and Trombeta and the river Luinha, 
abundant, fl. March 1855, Native name “Gususso.” No. 4381. A 
shrub or perhaps in the primitive forests a tree, much branched ; 
branches and branchlets spreading ; leaves thinly coriaceous ; flowers 
white. In secondary thickets amongst the mountains of Serra de 
Queta, sparingly in fl. 19 March 1856. No. 4382. 
Asmall elegant tree; habit Myrtaceous or Combretaceous. Mountains 
of Alto Queta ; fr. only, middle of Dec. 1854. Fruits larger than the 
type, 2 to % in. long, probably the same species. Cou. Carp. 558. 
CazENnGo.—A tree, 25 to 40 ft. high, apparently evergreen ; wood 
hard, highly esteemed. In forests on both sides of the river Luinha ; 
fr. 3- and 2-winged in the same head; in leaf 26 Dec. 1854. Native 
name “ Gustisu.” No. 4383. 
20. C. tinctorum Welw. ex Laws. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 
p. 430; Ficalho, Pl. Uteis, p. 183 (1884) (éinctoriwm). 
C. Kirkii, var., Laws., l.c. 
Punego ANDONGO.—A tree, 15 to 30 ft. high, sparingly branched, 
with a lax head and almost the habit of C. lepidotum A. Rich.; root 
and occasionally the branches used to dye cloth and other fabrics 
black ; leaves (including a petiole of } to 3 in.) 3 to 5 in. long by 14 
to 2 in. broad, sparingly lepidote ; fruiting peduncles 12 to 13 in. long ; 
fruit 1% to 2 in. long, 1 to 1} in. broad, 4- or rarely 5-winged, mode- 
rately rounded-emarginate at both ends, yellow-greenish or greenish 
even when ripe or yellowish or turning quite yellow, lepidote, pro- 
ducing a yellow dye. In forests about the base of Serra de Pedras de 
Guinga, at an elevation of 4000 ft., sporadic ; not quite ripe fr. March 
1857. No. 4373. Native name “ Lunga-lasdge.” 
