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C. lomuense. (New species.) 1 Flowers sessile in spikes arranged as a terminal panicle, each flower subtended by a lanceolate bract, each spike in the axil of a leaf or 
large bract ; younger parts densely villose or cancscent, older foliage varying from villose to glabrescent on the upper surface, hairy on the veins beneath. Leaves 
sub-opposite or occasionally alternate, 2-4 c.m. long, 1-2*5 c.m. wide, shortly elliptical, with a petiole 3 m.m. long and a minute point ; opaque on the upper surface ; 
the many and reticulated veins in relief on the under surface. Flowers 7 m.m. long, the ovary densely hairy, the tube very slender, and the calyx-limb open, 
4-toothed, glabrous within, but with an annular disc densely hairy on its inner surface. Petals 4, unequal, plaited, rising from the mouth of the calyx, the limb 
wider than deep and narrowed suddenly into a narrow claw ; stamens 8, 4 rising from below the petals and 4 alternate with them, all outside the disc, incurved 
when young, finally much exserted. Pistil slender, pointed ; ovary 1 -celled with 2 ovules ; the tube breaking off above the ovary at an early stage. Fruit unknown. 
Sent from Mozambique together with Weihea (?) sub-peltata, evidently mismated, as “Mocurusse;” presumably this was scandent on or growing intermixed with 
the Weihea, which, as shown by the attached timber specimens, owned the native name No further information is to hand as to its habit or habitat. Sim 6393. 
Tlatc LXI. B. I, Part of panicle ; 2, Leaf-shoot ; 3, Section of flower, x 3 ; 4, Flower, x 3 ; 5, Stamen, x 10 ; 6, Pistil, x 10 ; 7, Ovary and sections, x 3. 
C. elaeagnoides, Klousch (in Peters’ Mossamb. Bot., 73.) A small tree with pubescent virgate branches and silvery grey bark. Leaves opposite, petiolate, 12 c.m. 
long, 3 c.m. wide, glabrous above, pale and lepidote below. Inflorescence racemose, lepidote. Flowers small. Style without glands. Fruit orbicular 2-2*5 c.m. 
long. Tete, Zambesi, Dr. Kirk. 
C. truncatum, Wehv. Vern. navies — 4, Mondu, and Mondu-n-hlovu. A very large spreading tree 20-30 metres high, 30-100 c.m. diameter of stem, covered with silvery 
grey scales, and with deeply fissured and cross-cracked light grey bark in squares 5 x 2 c.m. or less. Vigorous young growth, lepidote, squarrose and spinescent, 
the spines axillary, 2-8 c.m. long, and either with or without leaves. Leaves 3-10 c.m. long, 1-2*5 c.m. wide, lanceolate or obovate, tapering to an acute point or 
rounded and mucronate, lepidote, and with slender petioles 3-10 m.m. long. Inflorescence spicate; spikes axillary and terminal on short side branches ; flowers 
small ; style covered with glands; fruit 15 m.m. long, 10 m.m. wide, 4-winged, tipped by the style, covered with scales. Tree silvery grey from the scales, rigid, 
erect and squarrose, and much like an Ekeagnus when young, a very large tree when old, with rather brittle and most durable timber, so hard that before the advent 
of iron hoes this was used instead. Frequent in Lourenzo Marques, Maputa and Marracuene; present also but not frequent from the Limpopo to Inhambane. 
North of Quelimane it was not noticed, except in one place between Mucuba and Nhamacurra, but there it was abundant for half-a-mile, and no other tree mixed 
with it except a small Protea. 
“This species may be readily distinguished from all other African Combreta by its glandular style. The wood is described as being exactly like that of 
lignum-vitae. The native name for it in the Mozambique country is Mozambiti a 
Plate LX 1 1. B. I, Fruiting branch ; 2, Shoot of coppice or young tree ; 3, Frequent size and form of leaf ; 4, Young leaf showing scales ; 5, Section of fruit ; 6, Portion of leaf (magnified) showing scales. 
C. arengense. (New species. )3 Vern. name —10, Katumba. A tree with opposite elliptic-obovate or elliptic-lanceolate leaves 10-15 c.m. long, 5-9 c.m. wide, narrowed 
to the blunt point, rounded at the base, shortly petiolate, firm, glabrous but set with minute silvery scales on the lower surface; main and cross veins in strong relief. 
Spikes axillary to the lower leaves, 5 c.m. long; fruit 1*5-2 c.m. long, 4-winged, at first rusty-ferruginous, the wings afterwards glabrous and shining. Sim 5916. 
Magenja da Costa. 
PLATE LXIII. B. I, Leaf; 2, Portion of same, showing white scales; 3, Fruit. 
' t.ombretum lomuense. (Sp. nov.) Inflorcscenlia spicarum in uxillis foliorum in panicula apicali dispositarum ; partibus junioribus dense villosis vel canescentibus, foliis demum in pagina 
inferiore subvillosis vel glabrescentihus, paginae inferioris venis rcticulatis prominentibus hirsutis, foliis sub-oppositis vel alternis, 2-4 c.m. longis, 1-2*5 c.m. latis, late ellipticis, petiolo 3 m.m. longo, apice 
breviter mucronalo ; floribus scssilibus, 7 m.m. longis, ovario dense hirsuto ; calycis tubo anguslissimo, limbo patente, 4- dent at o, intus glabro nisi disco annulari pilis dense vestito ; petalis 4, inaequalibus, 
plic.nl is, c tubo calycis ortis, petali lamina lata, ungui angusto ; staminibus 8 in seriebus duabus alternatim dispositis, junioribus incurvis, demum longc exsertis; pistillo gracili, acuto ; ovario i-loculari, ovulis 2 ; 
fructibus baud visis, E. Mozambique missa cum Weihea (?) subpcltata, super quam verisimilitcr scandet. Sim 6393. Tab. LXI. B. 
9 “ Flora of Tropical Africa," II., 427. 
3 Combrctum arengense. (Sp. nov.) Arbor; foliis opposite elliptico-obovatis vel elliplico-lanceolatis, 10-15 c.m. longis, 5-9 c.m. latis, apice obtusis, basi rotundalis, breviter petiolatis, firmis, in pagina 
superiore glabiis, in pagina inferiore pilis argcntcis squamosis teclis, venis prominentibus; inflorescenliis in axillis foliorum inferiorum sitis, spicatis, 5 c.m. longis; fructibus 1*5-2 c.m. longis, 4-alatis, primo 
robiginosis, alis demum glabris nitidis. Magenja da Costa. Sim 5916. Tab. LXIII. B. 
