456 LYiii. combretacej:. (C. B. Clarke.) IComhretum. 



A large scandent sbnib. Leaves 4-6 in. (always large and generally more ^than 

 2 in, broad), even on the upper surface glandular-punctate and pubescent on thb 

 nerves; only ultimately becoming glabrous ; petiole ^-f in. Bracteoles often \ m., 

 linear, subpersistent. Ca^y^-teeth erect, short, triangular. Petals obovate, much 

 longer than the calyx. Bisc and base of calyx within clothed with short hair. Frun 

 1-1^ in. long and as broad, puberulous, brilliantly red or dark brown. " '"' *' ,^,' 



10. C. Walllclill, Da Prodr. iii. 21 ; leaves opposite elliptic or orbicular 

 acuminate adult glabrous beneath with tufts of yellow hair in the axils of the 

 main nerves, racemes rusty-puberulous undivided axillary solitary and ^proxi- 

 mated almost panicled in the uppermost axils^ calyx shortly constricted above 

 the ovary then funnel-shaped or suhcampanulate puberulous without; TTaW. 



Nipal; Wallich. Interior of SiKKist, alt. 4000-5000 ft. (Kulhait), C^ B. Clarke. 

 ^ A scandent shrub. Leaves 2-4 in., glandular-punctate on both surfaces ; petiole 

 ^ in. Bracteoles minute, fugacious. Calyx-tMh^ filled densely with long hairs exsert 

 from the mouth, teeth short triangular suberect. Petals small, obovate. Fruit |-1 

 ^J li-^i in., rich dark-brown, puberulous.— The tufts of hair are seen in dl the 

 axils of the nerves beneath of C. Wallichii, in none of C.flagrocarpum; also the 

 leaves of a Wallichii are smaller ana thinner than those of C. fiagrocarpum : the 

 constricted part of the calyx-tube of C. Wallichii is shorter and the flower witJuji 

 densely filled with fulvous hair; the bracteoles are different.— As to Combretum 

 Wallichii, Hassk. in Flora 1844, p. 106, and Miq. FL Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. p. 608, which 

 these authors suggest to be allied to C. laiifolium or C Wightianum, it can only.ge 

 said that as they did not possess the fruit of'C. Wallichii it is impossible to guess to 

 what species their remarks refer, * >' 



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tt Surface of the fi*uit between the wings glabrous, pubescent, or with sesm 



glands, but not with elongate scales. 





lanceolate 



11.^ C. aquamosuxn, Roxb.FL Ind. ii. 231 ; leaves opposite 

 to orbicular-elliptic acute adult glabrous, racemes lateral compound and ter- 

 minal glabrous but covered with round flat glandular scales, calyx-tube shortly 

 constricted above the ovary then funnel-shaped. Wall. Cat. 3987 ; Mtq- ^^ 

 Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 607. G. Don in Trans. llnn. Soc. xv. 438 {butjlowers n&C 

 ^Jid) ; W. ^' A. Prodr. 317 ; Kurz For. FL Brit. Burma i. 463. C. lepidotum, 

 Presl BemerJc. 142 (see Kurz in Flora 1871, p. 289). '.v 



NoETHEBN and Eastern Bengal near the foot of the mountains from ^^^t,^,.:* 

 Chittagong and thence to Sincapoeb ; plentiful.— Distkib. Malaya to the I'liuip- 

 pines. 



_ A large scandent shrub. Leaves 4-6 in. from a broad base, prominently covere 

 with flat circular glandular scales on both surfaces, those on the upper surface sow 

 times ultimately disappear ; upper leaves usu.illy much smaller and narrower, oiu^ 

 lanceolate. Axillary raceTuea usually divided, panicled, but on some branf^' v, 

 undivided ; bracteoles subulate, fugacious. Ca/yx-teeth short, triangular. -P^^"" ;^ 

 orate, small. Disc and base of calyx-tube within clothed with long ^"1^°"', ,hS 

 which are not exserted. Fruit ^-1^ in., sometimes broader than high or not ; clotn 

 between the wings with close flat round glands. „ ,^ 



Yah. aureum. Wall. Cat. 398<?. C. malulaa, Wall. Cat. 3991 ; same as the J|^' 

 but turns a nch brown in drying 



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iqq"^^,' ^'^ <l!*adrangrulare, Kurz in Jmm. As Soc ^etiff. }f^> f^'' 

 i«a ; leaves subopposite lanceolate or elliptic attenuated into the petiole, raceiu 

 lateral compound and terminal covered with round flat glandular scal^, now 

 So ' ^^^ .*>^« ^lie o^a'^ campanulate. C. attenuatum, fj«f ' , 





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