Fung Prov.; Nuba Mts. Prov. (Ghebeish); Bahr El Ghazal Prov. (Jur-land:
Kutshuk Ali & Mittu-land: Ngama); Mongalla Prov. (Sh. Thombé).
The smoke from the wood is used as perfume by Sudanese women.
=C. glutinosum= _Perr._
Small tree. Leaves in whorls of 3 or 4. Fruit 4-winged. Flowers small,
pubescent, greenish-white, on small axillary spikes.
Bahr El Jebel (Madi).
=C. cordofanum= _Engl._ & _Diels._
Leaves obovate-elliptic, acutely acuminate, 6 in. long, 2½ in. broad,
softly tomentose below. Fruits thinly winged, oblong, truncate at the
base, 1 in. long, ¾ in. broad, puberulous.
Kordofan Prov. (Um Dajog).
=C. gallabatense= _Schwfth._
Middle-sized tree. Leaves about 6 in. long, lanceolate, hoary pubescent.
Kassala Prov. (Gallabat: Matamma).
=C. Schweinfurthii= _Engl._ & _Diels._
Tree. Leaves variable, from 1½ in. long, obovate to 12 in. long, broadly
lanceolate, acute to acuminate. Fruit 4-winged.
Bahr El Ghazal Prov. (Bongo-land: Ngoli & Niamniam-land, by the
Gumango).
=C. verticillatum= _Engl._
Small tree, branchlets rusty tomentellous. Leaves in whorls of 4,
lanceolate-elliptic, long acuminate, about 8 in. long and 2 in. broad,
shortly pubescent and rather densely lepidote-glandular below. Flower-
spikes axillary, 2½ in. long. Fruits 4-winged, ¾ in. long, tomentose
between the wings.
Bahr El Ghazal Prov. (Jur-land & Bongo-land: Gir).
=C. bongense= _Engl._
Shrub with sweet-smelling flowers. Leaves clustered ovate-lanceolate,
subacute, 3½ in. long, 1½ in. broad, very densely lepidote below, with
tufts of hairs in the axils of the leaves. Spikes simple, 3 in. long,
tomentose. Fruits broadly elliptic, 1¼ in. long.
Bahr El Ghazal Prov. (Bongo-land: Dakuttu); Nuba Mts. Prov. (J. Debri).
=C. adenogonium= _Steud._
Tree. Leaves usually ternate, ovate to lanceolate, downy beneath,
leaving deep scars after falling off. Flowering branches leafless.
Flowers small on short woolly spikes. Fruit 4-5-winged, about 1 in.
long, shining.
Darfur Prov.
=C. populifolium= _Engl._ & _Diels._ BEMBU—Golo.
Shrub or tree, 20 ft. high. Leaves in whorls of 3, elliptic, sub-
acuminate, 3 in. long, 1½ in. broad, densely lepidote below. Fruits
suborbicular, 1 in. broad, densely rusty-lepidote.
Bahr El Ghazal Prov. (Jur-land; S.W. of Old Wau).
=C. splendens= _Engl._
Branchlets softly pubescent. Leaves ovate, more or less slightly cordate
at the base, acute, about 5 in. long and 3 in. broad, softly pubescent
on both surfaces. Flowers crowded in short spikes, hairy. Fruits
elliptic, lepidote, 1¼ in. long.
Darfur Prov. (J. Marra, mid-zone).
=C. lepidotum= _Hochst._
Tree; branches compressed, scaly. Leaves opposite, ovate, acute, 2-4 in.
long, viscid, glandular above and densely scaly beneath. Flowers in
axillary spikes of the length of the leaves. Fruit lepidote.
Fung. Prov.
=C. collinum= _Fresen._ UM-SUMAIN—Arab; ARGADA—Hameg.
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