350 LII, COMBRETACES, [Combretum 
The following No., without either flower or fruit, resembles in 
foliage this species :— 
GoLtunco ALTO.—A tree-like shrub, as tall as a man. Between 
Cambondo and Trombeta, Sept. 1857. No. 4386. 
21. C. paradoxum Welw. ex Laws. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 430, 
GoLtuneo ALTo.—A robust shrub, very widely climbing ; fruiting 
branchlets nodding or pendulous ; leaves evergreen, the younger ones 
herbaceous, the adult ones moderately coriaceous, yellow-green above, 
more obscurely green below, pellucid-punctate, the fresh ones turning 
yellowish in drying; flowers ietramerous ; pedicels bearing a small 
lepidote-tomentellous deciduous bracteole ; calyx obtusely 4-ribbed on 
the inferior part, constricted above the ovary, shaggy inside, quickly 
expanding into a shortly campanulate almost quadrangular cup, quasi 
4-gibbous downwards, 4-lobed, limb inflected ; petals 4, obovate, from 
whitish turning yellowish, a little longer than the calyx-teeth ; stamens 
usually 8,4 of which are higher than the others, occasionally only 4 
and then opposite the petals ; anthers pale yellow ; disk rather thick, 
ample, orbicular, nearly glabrous or thinly pubescent, covering the 
inner face of the calyx-tube ; style short, elongate-conical, rather thick; 
stigma rather small; ovary 1-celled, 2- rarely 3- or very rarely 4-ovuled; 
ovules pendulous ; funicles (if more than two ovules) unequal ; fruit 
velvety. In primitive forests at the cataracts, near Fonte Capopa 
behind Sange, sporadic ; fl. and fr. July and August 1855 and 1856. 
No. 4885. A small tree ; branches scandent ; leaves various in shape ; 
flowers racemose-paniculate ; panicles nodding ; calyx depresso-quad- 
rangular; stamens 4. At Capopa; fr. July to Sept. Co. Carp. 554. 
An arborescent shrub, subscandent, with long sarmentose branches ; 
calyx quadrate, saccate ; stamens 4. In the Capopa forests ; fl. and fr. 
August 1855. Cox. Carp. 555. 
22. C. holosericeum Sond. in Linnea xxiii. p. 44 (1850); Laws. 
in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 430; Ficalho, Pl. Uteis, p. 183 (1884). 
C. psidioides Welw. in Ann. Conselho Ultramar. Lisb., May 
1856, p. 249, n. 108. 
Loanpa.—In coast situations a fairly elegant tree-like shrub with a 
spreading head and the habit quite like a species of Psidiwm, 5 to 8 ft. 
high, or in the interior a copiously leafy tree of 15 to 25 ft.; branches 
numerous, spreading ; branchlets and foliage clothed with a very soft 
white-silky indumentum ; leaves obtuse, coriaceous, rigid ; fruit bril- 
liantly or luridly blood-red and lepidote-punctate, 4-winged, racemose. 
It affords excellent firewood, and is called by the negroes “ Mabé.” In 
rocky bushy places near Quicuxe and between it and Mutollo, rather 
rare, fr. May and July 1854; in sandy and stony thickets in the same 
vicinity, fr. 23 July 1857 ; at Bemposta, fr. 18 May 1859. No. 4378. 
Cont, Carp. 549. A small tree of 7 to 9 ft., with the habit of 
Psidium ; trunk terminating with a broad head, unbranched below : 
leaves large, obovate-elliptical, tomentose, in thickets in the south-east 
part of the district, near Quicuxe ; fr. July 1854. Cox, Carp. 550. 
This small tree constitutes, together with some Acacias and Bur- 
seraceze, the principal parts of the thin sandy forests in the interior of 
the districts of Loanda and Calumba, and furnishes the chief part 
of the firewood used in Loanda ; the wood is also used for the building 
of the huis, etc. 
Pungo ANDoNGO.—A beautiful tree, 20 to 25 ft. high, with a broad 
spreading head ; branchlets purple ; leaves large, coriaceous, rigid, 
