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24 in. broad. Flowers small, in short racemes clustered to form 

 panicles, all parts of the inflorescence covered with tomentum. 

 Fruits elliptical, glutinous when young, 4-winged. 



Vernac. names. — Wiyan demmu (Katagum, Dalziel) ; Chiriri 

 (Sokoto, Bull. Imp. Inst, 1910, p. 163). 



Katagum {Dalziel, No. 347, Herb. Kew). 



" Mumuye " gum is said to be obtained chiefly from this species. 

 It is not regarded as of much commercial value being worth only 

 12s. per cwt. on the London Market (Bull. Imp. Inst. 1910, p. 355). 

 It usually occurs in lumps of a dark smoky colour (Dalziel, Kew 

 Bull. 1910, p. 135). Gum classed under this name is obtained from 

 Kombo and Shillem on the river Gongola and districts south of the 

 Benue (I.e. p. 13G). The bark is medicinal (Dalziel, Herb. Kew). 



Combretum micranthum, G. Don ; Fl. Trop. Afr. II. p. 428, pro 

 parte. 



[G. Raimbaultii, Heckel, Rep. de Pharm. 1891.] 



III. — Engl. Monogr. Afr. Pflan. Combretaceae, t. 4, f. B ; L'Agric. 

 prat, pays chauds, ii. 1902, p. 68, f. 1 (photo of specimen, Herb. 

 Chevalier) ; p. 72, f . 2 (Sections of stems of " Kinkeliba," & 

 C. micranthum, showing similarity of structure). 



Vernac. names. — Okan (Lagos, Dawodu) ; Kinkelibah, Kinkelebar, 

 or Kankeliba (Senegal, Sierra Leone, Scott Elliot, Heckel, Engler, 

 Merck, Wallis) ; Kinkaliba, Bara Oule (Fr. Guinea, Pobeguiri). 



Nupe (Barter, No. 1645, Herb. Kew), and in West Africa from 

 Senegambia to the Niger. 



A decoction of the leaves is recommended as a cure for blackwater 

 fever (Merck's, Ann. Rep. 1896, p. 121 ; Wallis, Cons. Rep. Ann. No. 

 3750, 1907, p. 11), and Raimbault advises it for all gastric and 

 bilious disorders. He considers a glass taken while fasting in the 

 morning the best remedy for helping Europeans to become 

 accustomed to the climate ot W. Africa (Merck, I.e. p. 122). 



Ref. — u Sur l'emploi des feuilles de Combretum Raimbaultii, 

 contre la fievre bileuse hematurique," Heckel, in Journ. Les 



Nouveaux Remedes et Repertoire de Pharmacie, 1890. " Folia 



Combreti Raimbaultii," in Merck's Ann. Rep. for 1895 (March, 1896), 



p. 121-122. " Le Kinkeliba," Perrot et Lefevre, in L'Agric. prat. 



des pays chauds, ii. 1902, pp. 67-77, illustrated. 



Combretum mucronatum, Sch. et Thonn. ; Fl. Trop. Afr. II. p. 426. 



Vernac, names. — Agbon Igbo or Agbon Odon (Yoruba, Millson 

 Moloney) ; Okan (Lagos, Millen) ; Lawo (Lagos, Dawodu). 



Lagos ; Abeokuta ; Cross River. 



Leaves boiled and used as a preventive against sickness by the 

 natives in Lagos (Millen, Herb. Kew). 



Combretum Zenkeri, Engl. & Diets, in Engl. Monogr. Afr. Pflan. 

 Combretaceae (1899) p. 6<o. 



Climbing shrub. Young branches, covered with rusty tomentum , 

 older branches almost glabrous with a darker cortex. Leaves 

 opposite, petioles short, articulate, the basal part remaining after the 

 fall of the leaf. Lamina 4 in. long, 1| in. broad, papery, glabrous on 

 the upper surface, pubescent and lighter in colour on the lower, 

 slightly acuminate at the apex, rounded at the base. Inflorescence 

 a large panicle with 3-forked tomentose branches, the ultimate 

 branches ending in globular capitals of small flowers. Brads 

 leaf -like but smaller, decreasing in size towards the apex of the 



