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COMBRETUM* comdsum 



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Longstamened Combretum 



DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. or d. Combretace^. 



COMBRETUM h. — Calycis limbus infundibuliformis 4-lobus de- 

 ciduus. Petala 4, inter lobos calycis inserta. Stamina 8, biserialia; 

 ex his 4 petalis opposita altius inserta et long^ exserta. Ovarium 2-6-ovu- 

 latum. Stylus exsertus acutus. Fructus 4-pteri, I-loculares, l-spermi, 

 indehiscentes. Semen angulatum pendulum. ^Cotyledones ^ plic^ medi^ 

 reflexse cruciato-divaricatse. Frutices arboresve suhscandentes. Folia 



scepiiis opposita integerrima. 

 culatce. Dec. prodr. 3. p. 18. 



Spicae terminales et a^illares, inter dUm pani- 



Partes 



comosum 



terminalibus laxis multifloris^ petalis obtusis^ bracteis lauceolatis, rai 



scandentibus pubescentibus. 



comosuna. G. Don, in Linn, trans. 15. p. 433. Dec. prodr. 3. 20. 



Rami scandentes, teretes, puhescentes. 



)pposita 



loqu£ pilosiusctdis. 



ifrd 



fastiqium ramorum, ramosa, multifli 



aphyllce, bracteis parvis, ovato-lanceolatis, deciduis. Fiores in apicibus 

 ramulorum congesti. Calyx infundibularis , subpubescens, limbo 5-dentato. 

 Petala 5, unguiculata, linearia, obtusa, tcete purpurea. Stamina longi 

 exserta^ Jilamentis tenuibus, coloratis. 



This fine climbing stove plant was collected by- 



Mr. George Don, for the Horticultural Society 



in S 



Leone, in 1821 : from seeds 



home by him, a great 



number of plants have been distributed by the Society 

 through the Gardens of Europe ; but we believe they have 



Combretum is a Plinian name, the application of which is now 

 unknown; it has been capriciously given to the genus which at present 

 bears it, Comosus, in Botanical language, indicates the presence of en- 

 larged bracteae or of leaves at the extremity of an inflorescence. It seems 

 to have been used in this instance in the signification of shaggy, m allusion 

 to the long hair-like filaments. 



