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COMBRETUM purptireum. ! 



Scarlet Combretum. Madagascar Aigrette. 



OCTANDRIA fa DECJNDRU) MONOGYNU. 



Nat. ord* Ohagrjb. Jutticu gen* 817 '. Div. Ill* 



Combrbtace-e. CaL Biiperua: limbo 4-5-fido, eequali. Pet* 

 4-5, vel nulla, Stam. 8-10; quandoque laciniis calycis eequalia etcum iudera 

 altemantia. Germ. Moc«, ovulis 2-4, ab apice loculi pendulb absque re- 

 ceptaculo communi vel columna central!: stylus I: stig. 1* Pericarp* 

 1-spermum, clausum, figur& et texturii varium, Drupa v. Samara.' Bern* 

 exalbuminosunu Embryo cotyledonibua ssepids involutis: plumula incon- 

 apicua. Arbores v. Frutices* Fol. simpticia. integra* exstiputata, attema* 

 nunc opposita* raro punctato+pdlucida. Floret spicati axillares. Brown in 

 append, to Flind. voy. 2. 548. 



COMBRETUM. . Cat. cainpanulatus, limbo 4*5-dentato deciduo. 



Pet* 4-5, parva. Stam, plurimum exserta, antheris oblongis. Stig* U 

 Caps* bblonga* 4-5-angulara angulis alatia membranaceis, l-loc, 1-sperraa. 

 Frutices sarmentosi ; Jot. opposita; Jhres spkati. v. spkato-paniculati* terr 

 minales et axillares spicis oppositis* Jusi. 1* c. 320» 



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C. purpvreum*. floribiia decandtis, epicis laxig paniculatis. Lamarck encyc. 



I. 727 5 (sub Combrbto coccioeo)* 

 Combretum purpureum. Vahl symb. S. 51. Curtis** tnagax. 2102. Willd. 



sp*pl*%$m 



Combretum coccineum. Lamarck toe. cti* et illtistr. t. 282. J. 2. 



Cristaria. Sonnerat it. 2. 247. t. 140. 



Frutex sanrwntosus Jhribus pulcherrimh. Fol. Opposite, petiofata* ovalia 

 acumine brevi* inlegerrima f glabra) Jirmula, 3*4t-uncialia latUudine $-uncia& 

 t>. ntajore. Paniculse racemoste*' terminates* coccinea. Stam. 10, langi m- 

 serta* Caps* alts 5 tenuibus membranaceis. Lam. loc. cit. (ex galHcd). 



The natural order, in which our plant now ranks and 

 for which its genus has suggested the name, was first pro~ 

 posed by Mr. Brown in the Prodromus of the Flora of New 

 Holland, and subsequently defined by him as above, in the 

 General Remarks on the Botany of Terra Australia A 

 principal character of the group consists in the one-celled 

 germen with two or more ovula simply pendulous from the 

 upper part of the cavity, not inserted, as in the confining 

 Santalacece, into a central receptacle or column. The order, 

 Mr. Brown observes, appears to be connected with the 



Myrtacece through Jussieu's genus Guiera, which has the 

 structure of the Combretacea?, and the foliage dotted with 

 pellucid glands as in the Myrtacew. 



vol. v. A A 



