Comhretum.'] lviii. combretacej;. (C. B. Clarke.) 457 



MorLMEiN, Wallick. Tenassebim, He/fer No. 2181, Kew Distrib. 



Whole plant covered with sessile flat circular scales, otherwise glabrous or nearly 

 so. Branchlets quadrangular. Leaves 3-4 by 1^ in. Fruit J-| in.— Hardly dis- 

 tinguishable from C. squamosum Koxb. but by the small flowers and the leaves 

 attenuated at the base. C. Van Heurckii, Mucll in Heurck ^' Muell Arg, Obs. Bot, 

 227, may as far as the description goes be this plant but the fruit is not described. 

 Griffith's No. 725 quoted cannot be found at Kew. 



13. C. dasystachyuxn, Kurz Journ, As. Soc. Bmg. 1874, pt. ii. 187 ; 



leaves opposite and often ternate elliptic- or obovate-oblong acuminate densely 

 imbescent on the nerves beneath, racemes rarely divided axillary solitary and 

 subterminal 2-4 together, young ovary (and calyx without) glandular and 

 tomutely pubescent, calyx-tube distinctly constricted above the ovary then 

 fimnel-shaped, fruit large. 



Pegu ; Kurz, Chittagong ; Hk.f. Sf Th. Assam ; JenMns. Cachae ; Keenan, 

 A scandent shrub, the innovations rusty-pubescent or villous. Leaves 5-10 in., 

 lower surface puberulo-punctate, upper punctate -scabrous ; petiole ^-f in.^ densely 

 "nllous. Racemes in flower rusty-villous ; bracteoles ^ in., linear. Ca5^j:-teeth tri- 

 angular, acute, erect. Petals narrow obovate, small. Disc and base of calyx densely 

 covered with long fulvous hair. Fruit 1 J by I in., with scattered small round glands, 

 otherwise glabrous. 



14. C. chlnense, Roxb. Hort. Bmg. 28, Fl Ind. ii. 230, not of G. 

 ■'^^;_ leaves opposite or ternate obovate or lanceolate adult glabrous, racemes 

 ^divid^ solitary axillary and approximated subterminal, young ovary (and 

 ^yx without) glandular and minutely pubescent, calyx-tube distinctly con- 

 stncted above the ovary then funnel-shaped, fruit f-1 in. often bright red 

 ^ten ripe. Kurz For. FL Brit. Bur^na i. 463. 0. Griffithii^ Huerck ^' Muell 

 "^ff- Obs, Bot. 231,/rfeKurz. 



L 



F F 



. J^ANSGANGETic Peninsula from Assam to Tenasseeim and Penang; alt. 0-1000 

 It. frequent.—DisTRiB. China, according to Eoxburgh. 



., ^ scandent shrub, nearly glabrous. Leaves 3-5 in., punctulate on both surfaces, 

 ^® points often obscure in age; petiole ^-^ in. Calyx-tQQth triangular, erect. Petals 

 narrow-ob ovate, small. Disc and base of calyx within densely covered with long 

 JJl^ous hair. Fruit about as broad as high, subglabrous.— There is no example of 

 V ^^^nense Eoxb. at Kew • Mr. Kurz has applied that name to var. ternatum, and 

 ^ne description fits -well. 



VAa. ternatum, Wall. Cat. 4002 (sp.); leaves often 3-nate obovate obtuse usually 

 arrowed into the petiole, uppermost sometimes lanceolate. 



nM • ^- ^orterianum, Wall. Cat. 4000 {sp.) ; leaves never 3-nate lanceolate or 

 .^Wong distinctly acuminate. 



15 c. nanum, Ham. in Don Prodr. 219; leaves opposite or all alter- 

 "ft.te from round obovate to lanceolate glabrous, racemes undivided subter- 

 tjxnal generally few with one gi-eatlv elongated, young ovary and calyx without 

 gabrous sparsely glandular punctulate, calyx-tube constricted above the ovary 

 :, ? funnel-shaned. fruit Ii bv 1 in. or somewhat smaller puberulous or sub- 



429 



^trous. DC. 'P>-odr. iii. 2] 

 ^^ Brand. For. Fl. 221. 



ft3ii*'ALi^'*- Tebai from Sikkim to the Pckjab; Wallich, Eoyk, Edgeworth 

 '«rtKhey ^ Wmterbottom, J.D.H. 

 ^ A aecumbent low shrub, burnt 

 W „i°'' g^brous, the racemes minu 



iC .Ifjen much smaller and narrower 



jy the loresc nres ; orancnes 

 Leaves typically 4 by 3^ in., 





