454 liviii. COMBRETACEJ!. (C. B. Clarke.) [Comlretum. 



petiole i in. Fruit ^^ in., glabrous.— Herbarium twigs of this species are much 

 like -vrliole plants of C\ nanum, but the fruits are hardly half as long. 



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Fruit with 5 sharp angles. 



5. C. trlfoliatum, Vent, Choix t. 58} leaves lanceolate or elliptic nar- 

 rowed at both ends glabrous^ spikes lateral and terminal often compound rusty- 

 villous, calyx-tube hardly constricted above the ovary then urceolate silky. 

 G. Dm in Tram. Linn. Soc. xv. 439 ; Miq, Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 610 ; Knrz 

 For. FL Brit. Burma i. 461. 0. lucidum, Blnme Bijd. 641. 0. undulatum 

 and 0. elegans, Wall Cat. 3993, 4003. 0. subaltemans, Wall Cat. 4008 i 

 Terminalia lancifolia, Griff. Notul iv. 685. Embryogonia lucida, Blume Mus. 

 Bot. ii. t. 52. Cacoucia ? trifoliata, DC. Prodr. ii. 22. C. lucida, Sassh. tn 

 -F/or« 1844, p. 607. 



Peninsttla 

 Burma 

 A 



nlternat 



— ^ ^ , 



IB. Burma, Java. • h 



scandent shrub. Leaves 2-4^ in., opposite, not seldom ternate, sometimes sud- 



...ate, usually shining, the petiole ^-f in, (and sometimes the midrib) pubescent. 



BracteoleslmeQ,v, small, early deciduous. Ovary sessile. Calyx-teeth lanceolate, erect. 



Petals narrow, little exceeding the calyx. Bisc and base of the calyx-tube wittnn 



covered with long hair. Fruit about 1^ in., and half as broad, shining, black. 



Sect. II. Tetrag'onocarpus. Flmve7*s 4-merous. Fmit with 4 ob- 

 tuse or acute ridges, the ridges not expanded into thin papery wings. 



6. C tetralophum 



racemes in subterminal 



nearly 



ovary 



then 



ferrugi 



luuo cit^ttico^ ixuib wxi^u y^i-j wv^m-^-w - — ^ • 



Maxacca, Griffith (Kew Distrib. No. 2195)=-Coml)rotum No. 19 of Hk. / 4'^ * 

 distrib. — Distrib. Siam, Borneo. 1^.-^ 



A scandent shrub. Leaves 4-5 in., opposite, shining, often with a little ^"^^y ^ j^ 

 along the base of the midrib beneath; young remotely glandular-punctate ; P^ . 

 ^ in. Bracteoles ^ in., soon deciduous. Constricted part of the calyx-tube ne^; 

 as long as the young ovary, the teeth triangular erect covered without ^J ^^^^ ^^^^ 

 sessile ferruginous glandular scales. Petals narrow, hardly exceeding the caly^-t ^^^• 

 Disc and base of the calyx within densely covered by long fulvous hair. -^'■"*^^* j^ 

 in. and half as broad, shining, black.— This species in the fruit and ^^^^^^.^^ b^t 

 resembles C. irifoliaium above that it has been mixed with it as a 4-fid variety ■ ^^ 

 ^e flowers are altogether different, and there is not one 5-angled fruit on any o 

 Kew specimens. 



ellipt 



m 



uxxx^tiu uutuatj uuriaeeous giaorous, spikes robust lulvous-vuu 

 and in thin terminal panicles, calyx-tube and ovary rusty 



prominent 



Swamp forests of Pegu ; frequent, Kurz. . rrUnduIar- 



. A glabrous large scandent shrub. Leaves 3-5 in., younger remotely g*"- _j 

 punctate ; petiole less than \ in. Flowers small. Calyx-tnhe short ; limb cup* ^^^^^ 

 with 4 short acute teeth, scaly and pubescent without, densely villous within. ^^^.^ 

 mmute. Fruit 1 in. and more, glabrous, pale brown, elliptic-ovate, the ^"^V j^gter 

 coriaceous sharp prominent and almost winglike, much narrower thantneu. ^ 



of the nut. 



ither 



The example of this species communicated to Kew by Kurz f^^^^^^vnt. 

 truit nor flowers ; the character of the species is therefore copied from -^^; . , 



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