Combretum] LIL, COMBRETACES, 353 
which at length in drying turn dusky ; flowers tetramerous, yellowish ; 
style thickened in a clavate manner towards the apex ; fruit 4- (3- to 
5-) winged, always ruddy or purple. In somewhat rocky thickets at 
the borders of primitive forests near Mumpulla, sporadic ; fl. Oct. 1859; 
towards Lopollo, fr. March and April 1860. No. 4875. 
26. C. platypetalum Welw. ex Laws. in Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 433. 
C. Oatesii Rolfe in Oates, Matabele Land, ed. 2 p. 399, t. 10 
(1889). 
Huitia.—A little shrub, 6 to 18 in. high, branched from the base ; 
primary stem abbreviated ; lateral branches decumbent or oblique, 
leafy ; the younger branches silky with whitish hairs ; indumentum of 
the whole plant whitish-silly in the living state, not tawny nor dusky 
as afterwards in the herbarium ; leaves mostly alternate, coriaceous, 
oblong-elliptical or obovate-elliptical, broadly subcordate at the base ; 
bracts small, lanceolate, acute, shorter than the ovary ; calyx elongate- 
campanulate, adpressedly pilose below, shortly 4-toothed, teeth from a 
broad base, abruptly subulate, cinnabar-red; petals obovate, sub- 
orbicular, sessile, with a broad base, concave, very obtuse or truncate or 
subemarginate at the apex, very broad for the genus, margins laterally 
overlapping, many times broader and longer than the calyx-teeth, 
cinnabar-red (brightly so even after two years in the herbarium) ; 
stamens 8, cinnabar-red ; filaments glabrous, rather thicker than usual 
in the genus ; style straight, cylindrical, glabrous, shorter than the 
stamens ; stigma terminal, sub-truncate ; ovary very shortly stalked, 
narrowly ellipsoidal, densely pubescent ; fruit 4-winged, 1,4 in. long 
by 17: 1n. broad, smooth, scarlet. On shortly-bushy pastures between 
Mumpulla and Humpaita ; fl. and fr. Oct. 1859. No. 4356. 
_ 5. CAMPYLOCHITON Welw. ms. in Herb., gen. nov. 
Calyx adnate to the ovary and 5-ribbed or 5-furrowed at the 
base, limb tubular, sub-cylindrical, moderately curved, produced 
far above the ovary, shortly 5-cleft at the apex, more or less 
shaggy within, deciduous. Petals 5, oval or ovate-lanceolate, 
pointed at the apex, shortly clawed at the apex, nearly equal 
among themselves, veiny, rather exceeding the calyx-lobes and 
alternating with them, inserted at the top of the calyx-tube. 
Stamens 10, exserted, inserted on the calyx-tube near its middle or 
in two rows, the 5 longer filaments adnately decurrent lower down 
the calyx-tube than the rest; filaments all filiform, subulate at 
the apex, following the curvature of the calyx-tube, inflexed 
in the bud; anthers cordate-ovate, dorsifixed, introrse, 2-celled, 
dehiscing longitudinally. Disk fleshy, cup-shaped, investing and 
adnate to the lower part of the calyx-limb, with a 5-crenate free 
apex ; the lobes obtuse, like folds or glands fasciculately bearded 
at the apex and forming a ring below the middle of the calyx- 
tube. Ovary campanulate, 1-celled; style filiform, nearly as 
long as the stamens, somewhat curved, exserted; stigma sub- 
truncate or obscurely 5-lobed; ovules about 4, pendulous from 
the apex of the ovary-cell. Fruit with a central elongated- 
ellipsoidal membranous-fibrous subspongy body and 5 or rarely 
only 4 broad membranous or papery rigid semicircular coloured 
wings ; seed solitary, elongated; embryo straight; cotyledons 
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