352 LII. COMBRETACES. [Combretum 
rather rare ; foliage with flower-bud July 1855 ; without leaves with 
flower-bud Sept. 1855; fl. beginning of Oct. 1855; fl. 8 Sept. 1856; 
Capopa, fr. August 1856. No. 4328. A shrub of 3 to 4 ft., perhaps 
later forming a trée, very much branched from the base ; leaves dark- 
green above, much paler beneath, attracting attention from a long 
distance ; cotyledons corrugated, not convolute. On mountainous 
declivities covered with species of Andropogon among the mountains of 
Alto Queta ; fr. end of May 1855. No. 4331. Scandent ; trunk thick, 
twining ; wood hard as iron ; leaves punctate between the very delicate 
veinlets ; N-delle, fr. May 1856. No. 4826. An erect, much branched 
little shrub, 2 to 8 ft. high ; leaves paler beneath. On grassy slopes 
amongst the mountains of Serra de Alto Queta, in company with Molungo 
(Erythrina suberifera Welw.) and Cateta bulla (Tinnea antiscorbutica 
Welw.) ; fr. May 1855. Coxv. Carp. 551. 
Zenza DO GoLtunGco.—A shrub, 6 ft. high. On the drier hills 
between Calumguembo and Montes de Mongolo; fr. Sept. 1854. 
No. 4327. 
Ampaca.—A shrub, 4 to 6 ft. high, very rarely a small tree, always. 
very much branched; leaves deciduous at the time of flowering ; 
flowers white. In level thickets between N-gombe and Puri-Cacar- 
ambéla ; fl. Oct. 1856. No. 4332. 
Var. undulatum. 
All the leaves closely wavy on the margin. 
Loanpa.—A little shrub, 2 to 3 ft. high, climbing amongst low 
bushes ; branches slender and very numerous. On the slopes of Alto 
das Cruzes ; without fl. June 1854. No. 4329. 
The following two Nos. differ by their leaves having a greatly 
prolonged acumen at the apex in a similar way to that which 
characterises C’. Hartmannianum Schweinf. Fl. Aithiop. (i.) p. 24 
t. 34 (1867); Laws., Z.c., p. 431 :— 
Gotuneo ALTo.—A robust arborescent shrub ; trunk 2 to 3 in. in 
diameter at the base, but twining; branches elongated, flexuous, 
climbing high and widely amongst bushes ; leaves thinly coriaceous, 
shining above, canescent beneath, strongly wavy on the margin, 
caducous at the time of flowering ; flowers, so far as can be judged 
from their withered remains, whitish. At the borders of primitive 
forests between N-delle and Cambondo, young fr. Jan., ripe fr, March 
1856 ; in primitive forests near N-delle, young fr. Feb., ripe fr. April 
1856. No. 4330. Scandent; trunk 3 in. in diameter ; wood hard 
as iron. At the borders of forests near N-delle and between it and 
Cambondo ; young fr. Jan. and Feb. 1856. No. 4280. 
24. C. Zeyheri Sond. in Linnea xxiii. p. 46 (1850); and in 
Harv. & Sond. Fl. Cap. ii. p. 511 (1862); Harv. Thes. Cap. i. 
p. 48 t. 75 (1860). 
Huriia.—A small tree, 8 to 15 ft. high, with golden-yellow fruit. 
In little woods near the Monino, in company with Proteacee ; fr. May 
1860. No. 4371. 
25. C. argyrotrichum Welw. ex Laws. in Oliv., ic., ii. p. 432. 
Huitia.—An erect undershrub, 1 to 24 ft. high, almost in every 
part softly pubescent or white-silky, remarkably resembling in habit 
some Rubiacez ; rhizome thick, woody, giving off numerous stems ; 
flowering plant conspicuously shining white with silky pilose hairs, 
