AnisopTiyllea.'} lvii. ehizophore^. (G. Henslow.) 44^ 



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styles 4 ?, minute, densely hairy. Female Fl. Calyx-limh partially lined with a disk, 

 lobes each bearing a minute rudimentary stamen ; anthers dehiscing in bud ? Styles 

 4, spreading, subulate, densely hairy. Drupe narrowly pyriform, 3 by 1^ in. 



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Order LVni. COZHBRETACEH:. (By 0. B. Clarke, F.L.S.) 



Trees, or shrubs often climhers. Leaves alternate subopposite or opposite^ 

 sometimes ternate, petioled, entire, simple (in llligera 3-foliolate) ; stipides Q. 

 Floivers bracteolate at base, in the tribe Gyrocaiye^ cjTnose ; in the Coinbreteca 

 spicate or racemose (the racemes often panicled) ; not rarely polygamo-monoecious. 

 Cdyx-tuhe adnate to the ovary and produced above it (sometimes to a gi-eat 

 length), the limb of 4-5 (rarely 4-7) valvate lobes. Petals 4-5 or (rarely 

 ^7). Stamens 4^5 or 8-10 on the calyx; in the Gyi^ocarpet^ the filaments 

 have staminodes attached at the base, and the anthers dehisce by recurved 

 lateral valves. Ovary altogether inferior 1-celled ; style simple, stigma simple 

 or in Uliyera sinuate almost lobed ; ovules 1-7 (usually 2-3) pendulous from 

 the apex of the cell. Fruit coriaceous or drupaceous, generally indehiscent, 

 ovate, angular or very commonly winged ; in Calycoptetis and Gyrocarpus 

 crowned by the greatly enlarged calyx. Seed 1, without albumen; cotyledons 

 ^ Tei'mindia and others convolute ; in Comhretum and others plano-convex. — 

 DiSTRiB. Species 240, in the tropics of the whole world ; and in S, Africa out- 

 side the tropic. 



Suborder I. Combreteee. Cdyx-lohes valvate. Stamens without glands 



or staminndps nf fhpir y^aaa • onflipra riphisr'incr bv a Ifnioritudinal slit. Ovules 2-7. 



suspended by long funicles. M 



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Petals 0. Calyx-limb (excqyt in Calycopteins) 



Flowers spiked or racemed. Calyx-limb deciduous 1. Tebminalu. 



JKRIS 



Flowers capitate. Calyx-limb deciduous 3. Akogeissus. 



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Petals 5-4 (except in Cwnhretum apetalum). 



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COAfBRETCM 



t Calyx limb persistent. 

 l^ves alternate. Growing with the Mangroves 4. 



tt Calyx4imb deciduous. 



J^ajys-tube above the ovary loss than i in. long • ^' ^ 



^Ijx-tube above the ovary more than J in. long 6. Quisqualis. 



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. Suborder II. Gyrocarpece. Calyx-lobes valvate or imbricate. Stamens 

 ^ith glands or staminodes at their base ; anthers opening by recui-ved lateral 

 calves. Ovule 1, suspended by a short funicle. Flowers cymose. 



Sfandent. Leaves 3-foliolate ^ . • • 7. Ii.ligeea. 



^«ct tree. Leaves entire or lobed «• G^rocaupus. 



1. TE&MXKAZiXA, Unn. 



large trees. Leaves alternate or subopposite, exstipulate entire or slightly 

 ^niilate, often with glands on the petiole or near the base of the midnb beneath. 

 V^^rs smaU spicate, the racemes spikes sometimes panicled, hermaphi-odite 

 ** tbe upper flowers on the racemes males ; a narrow bract at the base of each 



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