

452 



LYIII. COMBEETACEJ;, 



) [^Lumnitzera. 



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times 



i. cbcclnea, TT. ^ A. Prodr. 316 ; racemes dense tenmml wme- 

 2 or 3 forming a small coryml), petals scarlet i in. Mey. f^-Jj^-^'^JiL 

 a. 606. L. littorea, Fo2ff^. ; Kurz For. Fl. Brit. Burma, i. 469. L.. pen- 

 i, Griff. Notul. iv. 684, and Ic. PI. Asiat. t. 644. Pyrranthus littoreus, 

 Mai Misc. ii. 67; Wall. Cat. 4018. ' ■::: 



^ MEEcri ; Gr#i*. Nicobaes ; Kurz. Malacca ; Maingay, Griffith.— 'DisTRrB- 



Malaya, North Australia, Polynesia. . ■'r^' 



A small tree 20-40 ft. high. Leaves 2-3^ in. Stamens 5-10, usuaUy 7 ; twic» 



as long as the petals, filaments crimson. •. " - 



2. 



racemosa, 7F27/c2. ; 



' ■ T '^ -i ' ■ 



_. , , DC. Prodr. iii. 22; racemes axillarf somfr-. 



what dense in flower 2-4 in. long in fruit, petals white very small. W. of^- 

 Prodr. 316 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 606 ; Dalz ^ Gibs. Bomb. IL ^ k 

 Tulame in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. iv. vol. vi. p. 103 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. An(il. tren. 

 PI. xxi. ; Brand. For. Fl. 221; Kurz For. Fl. Brit. Burma i. 468. I'y^^iff 

 albus, Wall. Cat. 4019. Petaloma alternifolia, Poxb. Fl. Ind. u. 37i. i>ru- 

 guiera madagascariensis, DC. P-odr. iii. 23. — Pheede JIo7-t. Mai. vi. t. o7. 



- On the coasts of India, Ceyjlon and the Tr.ajnsgangetic Peninstoa as on ^e 

 Andamans and Nicobaks (Kurz) ; general.— Dist rib. Tropical Africa, Malaya, JM 



Australia and Polynesia, in the Mangrove swamps. . ofyjrrms 



A small tree 20-40 ft. high. Leaves usually 2-3 in. sometimes only 1 in. J^f^^ 

 sometimes 5, sometimes 10 (always 10 Kur^:) about as long as the petals, n a ^ 

 white. Racemes in fruit ascending. :.^/=" 



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5. COnXBRETUXIX/Xmn. 



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I^rge shrubs (except C. nanum) with long pendent or scandent ^^'^^^^^ 

 "witliout spines (except C. spinescem). Leaves entire, petioled, opposite or ^ 

 seldom alternate or temate. Flowers polygamo-dioecious, often ^^, P^^^jj^ 

 spikes or racemes ; "bracteoles small. Calyx-tube constricted above j^®- ? ij[' 

 shortly or long produced, urceolate, funnel-shaped or tubular ; Hnib 4-o- ^ ^^^ 

 deciduous. Petals as many as the calyx-lobes (0 in C. apetalurn) P^^*^® . ^^;tJ 

 calyx-limb. Stamens twice as many as the petals, inserted in two sen ,^^^ 

 them. Ovari/ inferior, 1-celled ; style I, subulate, simple ; ovules 2-d, P ^|y 

 from the top of the cell. Fj-uit with 4^5 wings angles or ridges, dry, ge ^^ 

 indehiscent. Seed 1 ; cotyledons plaited or flat, in a few species convolui«^*^^ 

 DisxRiB. Species 120, common in the tropics of America, Africa, ana 

 also in South Africa, but not in Australia or Polynesia. 



Sect. I. Poivrea. Flowers 5-merous. Fruit 5-winged or 5-ridgea. 



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mernb) 



decandrum 



luddenly acumi- 



nate nearly dabrous on both surfaces when adult, panicles large ^^^^^^^^^^^ co- 

 ovary densely villose, calyx hardly constricted above the ovary urce ^^ 



H(yrt. Beng. 28 (md 



Br^ 



rered with short hairs within and without. 



ii, 232; G. Don in Trans. Linn. Soc. xv. 437; Wall. cwt. ^w./ , - <.,,-/. u, 

 Fl. 221 ; Kurz For. Fl. Brit. Burma i. 460. ^ "--■^-~>>" .«»'-^- -^^^^ ' 

 331. -^ • ~ - - - - 



Roxhurgbii, 5/»re«^^ - pg^. 

 Poivrea Roxburghii, 2^0. Pi-odr. iii. 18; W^. 



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ta,ptera Roxburgbii, Tulasne in Ann, Sc, Nat, Ser, iv. vol. vi. 84. 



Bengal, abundant,' alt, 0-3000 fl;. North I)ec_- ^ 

 common South, North West Prottncbs nearly to the I 

 the Andamans. 



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 . the Punjab. 1KNA»=»^^ . . 



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