354 LII. COMBRETACE. [Campylochiton 
rather thick, fleshy, convex-plane or sub-semicylindrical, narrowly 
oblong, obtuse, with a few longitudinal furrows on the convex 
back, smooth on the flat inner face: radicle very short, straight, 
obtusely conical; plumule inconspicuous. Erect or scandent 
robust shrubs, with opposite or rarely alternate leaves, large 
spicate-racemose bracteate flowers, and rather large winged fruits. 
Cacoucia Benth. & Hook f. Gen. Pl. i. p. 688, pro parte ; Laws. 
in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 433, pro parte ; non Aubl., nec Walp. 
1. C. platypterus Hiern. 
Cacoucia platyptera Welw. Sert. Angol. p. 24 (1869); Hemsley 
in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 2549 (June 1897). C. villosa Laws. in Oliv. 
Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 433, quoad specimen Welwitschianum. C. 
paniculata Laws., l.c., p. 434, quoad specimen Mannianum. 
GoLtuneo ALTo.—An arborescent shrub, sometimes standing erect 
(as for instance at Ponte de Felix Simoes), in other cases climbing to 
a great height to the tops of forest trees ; stems cylindrical, glabrous ; 
leaves opposite or occasionally sub-alternate, glossy, obscurely green, 
evergreen ; peduncles rachis bracts and flowers silky-tomentellous, in 
the living state whitish-tomentellous ; flowers rather fleshy ; bracts at 
length deciduous ; calyx-tube rosy-scarlet, 2 to 1 in. long ; glands at the 
insertion of the filaments yellow, silky-bearded at the apex ; anthers 
yellow ; style 1 to 1} in. long; ovules 4, pendulous to a considerable 
distance from the apex of the cell of the ovary; fruit brilliantly 
coloured deep rosy-scarlet throughout, 1} to 14 in. long and broad ; 
wings papery, rather rigid. In the tall thickets at the borders of 
primitive forests among the mountains of Serra de Alto Queta, near 
Sange ; also at Capopa, etc ; fl. April and May 1855 and 1856; fr. 
August and Sept. 1856 and 1857. No. 1752 and Cotn. Carp. 556. 
Sobato Mussengue ; fl. end of May 1856, A form with alternate 
leaves. No. 1752b. 
The most beautiful member of the family in Angola. 
6. CAMPYLOGYNE Welw. ex Hemsl. in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 2550 
(June 1897). 
1. C, exannulata Hemsl., J.c. 
Cacoucia exannulata O. Hoffm. in Linnea xliii. p. 132 (1881). 
C. bracteata Laws. in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 434, quoad 
specimen Welwitschianum. 
Gotunco ALTo.—A climbing shrub, spiny at the base or with the 
petioles at length hooked-spinescent ; calyx tubular, curved, superior, 
5-furrowed, obtusely 5-ribbed ; tube naked inside, without a ring of 
hairs or glands, herbaceous and green on the lower fifth, the rest more 
tender and sub-corolline, whitish or of a soiled-rose colour or reddish 
after flowering ; petals 5, ovate or oval, rather obtuse, sessile or very 
shortly unguiculate, more or less silky-pubescent on both faces, whitish or 
at length pale-reddish ; stamens 10, the 5 longer ones scarcely exceeding 
the petals ; anthers almost orbicular, didymous, red, dorsifixed in the 
middle, 2-celled, longitudinally dehiscing ; ovary obtusely pentagonal, 
1-celled, bi-ovulate ; ovules pendulous from the apex of the ovary ; 
style scarcely exserted, adhering below (for the lower fifth) to the 
calyx-tube and then doubly bent in a sigmoid manner, much thickened 
at the double bend, filiform above, from the middle towards the apex 
