1631 











COMBRETUM* grandifldrum. 



Large-flowered Combretum. 



\ 



DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Combretaces 



Brown 



i 



em of Botany, p. 66.) 

 COMBRETUM.— SuprA, vol. U.fol 



C. grandiflorum ; inerme, scandens, foliis oppositis brevfe petiolatis oblongo- 



subcordatis acuminatis integerrimis utrinque ramulisque parc& hirsutis, 



spicis secundis axillaribus terminalibusque, bracteis ovatis acutis, floribus 



5-petalis 10-andris erectis confertis, calycibus subglabris, stammibus 



Graham in Edinb. phil. journal, April 1832. 



G. Don in Edinb. phil. journal, 1824, p. 346. 



Graham in Edinb. 



inclusis (exsertis). 

 c - grandiflorum. 



De 



Cand. prodr. 3. 21. Hooker in bot. mag. t. 2944. 

 phil. journal, April 1833. 



One of the many noble plant 



which the once-fatal 





colony of Sierra Leone abounds. It is not a climber, as it 

 is sometimes called, but rather a scrambling plant, raising 

 itself upon other plants by means of a very curious kind of 

 hook with which nature has ingeniously supplied it. At 

 first sight one would wonder what this hook can be ; for 

 nothing like spine, or prickle, or tendril, can be discovered 



it is necessary that 



u Pon the branch 



for want of these 



their place should be supplied by some special provision, 

 which is of the following kind. When the leaves are first 

 fully formed, they are seated upon a footstalk 



of 



very 



appearance ; but after a time they fall away, leaving 





^e leafstalk behind 



the 



does 



wither up, but 



gradually lengthens, hardens, sharpens, and curves, till at 

 *ast it becomes a powerful hook, admirably adapted tor 



* 





* See fol. 1 165. 







