Combretum] LIT, COMBRETACE. 351 
obcordate, mucronate, beneath white-punctate especially along the 
veins, and with raised reticulation ; fruit brilliantly blood-red or 
purplish, obtuse at the base, emarginate at the apex, scattered on the 
body and wings with atro-purpureous dots. In sandy wooded places 
along the banks of the river Cuanza, near Sansamanda ; fr. Feb. 1857. 
Nos. 4377, and (without notes or locality) 4288. 
Houiiia.—A tree of 10 to 15 ft., very rarely reaching 20 ft., with 
the habit of a Psidium; trunk bare at the base ; head widely spread- 
ing, with a grey hue ; flowers turning yellow, atro-purpureous in bud ; 
filaments blood-red. In open sandy forests near Lopollo, in company 
with species of Protea and Acacia, abundant ; fl. Oct. 1859 ; without 
fl. Dec. 1859 ; fr. Feb. and April 1860. No. 4379. 
23. C. polystictum Welw. ms. in Herb. 
Cf. Combretum (sp. n.), Welw. in Ann. Conselho Ultramar. Lisb., 
May 1856, p. 250, n. 113. 
A closely branched erect or scandent shrub or a small tree ; 
branches terete, glabrate or nearly so; branchlets slender, puber- 
ulous with short sub-fulvous hairs; leaves opposite, elliptic- 
oblong, more or less acuminate at the apex, usually rounded 
or subcordate at the base, thinly coriaceous or almost papery, 
puberulous along the nerves or glabrate, 2 to 4 in. long by } to 
13 in. broad, dark-green above, paler and closely scattered with 
small pallid scales beneath ; petiole puberulous, 3 to 4 in. long, 
rather slender ; inflorescence cymose, axillary, lateral and terminal, 
sometimes forming terminal panicles 6 to 9 in. long; ultimate 
pedicels short in flower, scaly; calyx-limb campanulate, 3 in. 
long, scaly outside, hairy inside especially over the lower part, 
shortly 4-cleft ; lobes deltoid; petals 4, broadly obovate or sub- 
orbicular, about twice as long as the calyx-lobes; stamens 8, 
exceeding the calyx-limb by about its length; fruit 4-winged, 2 to 
Z in. long, 3 to 1 in. broad, more or less densely scattered with ' 
small scales. 
Loanpa.—A small shrub, semetimes 2 to 3 ft. high, sometimes 5 to 
6 ft. In thickets about the city of Loanda and Cacuaco ; fl. April to 
June 1854. No. 4324. <A shrub of 3 to 5 ft., the upgrowth from a 
cut-down tree of 15 ft., usually very much branched in a cespitose 
manner from the base ; leaves thinly coriaceous, rather rigid, dark- 
green above, paler beneath, somewhat wavy on the margin; flowers 
tetramerous, small; petals very polymorphous, whitish-yellowish. In 
dry hilly rocky thickets near Imbondeiro dos Lobos and close to 
Loanda, sporadic ; fl. end of April 1854; fr. June 1858 and July 1854. 
No. 4825. A shrub, 3 to 4 ft. high, occasionally subsarmentose, erect, 
much branched. On bushy slopes near Penedo ; fr, July 1854. Cott. 
Carp. 553. 
GotunGo AttTo.—In the thickets of the lower Queta and in Mata 
do Mariano, fl. Oct. 1855 ; Capopa, fr. Aug. 1856. No. 4279. A tree 
12 to 20 ft. high, with the habit of Amygdalus Persica L., not yet 
climbing ; branches spreading, virgate ; branchlets somewhat nodding ; 
leaves caducous at the time of flowering, coriaceous, glandular-punctate, 
wavy; flowers tetramerous, densely lepidote-scaly in bud; petals 
spathulate, pale yellow, quickly very pale; stamens 8 ; fruit rigid, 
4-winged, wings coarsely crenate or subcrenate, wavy. In bushy places 
at the borders of forests at the base of the mountains of lower Queta, 
