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upon short footstalks. The flowers are small and white, in 
crowded, elongated, axillary racemes. 
8. C. micranthum ; ereetum, ramosum ; foliis ovalibus acutis integerrimis, pe« 
tiolis brevis ramulisque pubescentibus ; racemis brevibus tenuibus axil- 
laribus. 
Hab. In fruticetis depressis ad Sierra Leone. 
Flores parvi, rubri. 
This shrub is upright and branching. The leaves are oppo- 
site, oval-acute. The petiols are short and pubescent, as well 
as the younger branches. The flowers are small and red, grow- 
ing in short, slender, axillary clusters, and sometimes the clus- 
ters are so numerous and crowded at the apex of some of the 
branches, as to assume the appearance of crowded panicles. It 
grows in shrubby places in the lowlands, and is sometimes to be 
found in the mountains of Sierra Leone. 
9. C. herbaceum , humile ; ramis calycibusque pubescentibus ; foliis alternis 
lanceolatis mucronatis integris, subtus sericeis, breve petiolatis ; pedun- 
culis axillaribus, paucifloris, racemiformibus. 
Hab. In locis depressis ad Sierra Leone. 
Radix lignosa. Caulis simplex, erectus, herbaceus, pedalis et ultra. Flores 
parvi, albi. 
C. herbaceum is a small herbaceous plant, about a foot high. 
The stems are simple and pubescent, as well as the footstalks, 
which are short. The leaves are alternate, lanceolate, mucro- 
nate, entire, silvery underneath. The peduncles are axillary, 
bearing from seven to eight flowers, racemose. The flowers are 
small and white. This singular little plant grows abundantly in 
clear low lands near Freetown. It has little of the general ap- 
pearance of Combretum , but has certainly all the essential cha- 
racters of that genus. 
10. c .sericeum ; suffruticosum, erectum, calycibusque pubescens ; foliis alter- 
nis lanceolatis oblongis integris, subtus sericeis, breve petiolatis ; ra- 
cemis axillaribus, confertifloris. 
Hab. In locis depressis ad Sierra Leone. 
Flores parvi, albi — Obs. C. herbaceo affine. 
C. sericeum is nearly related to C. herbaceum , but the plant 
is more shrubby. The leaves are not pointed. The flowers 
grow in axillary clusters, are very much crowded, and are ra- 
ther smaller than those of C. herbaceum . The plant is up- 
right, pubescent, as well as the peduncle and calyx. The leaves 
