420 LV. COMBRETACE (LAWSON). 
Flowers not secund; calyx-tube tubular-campanulate . 9. 
Flowers in spikes. Fruit winged. Herbaceous, erect . 10. 
Flowers in spikes or racemes. Fruit not winged woody. 
Fruit with 5sharp angles. . . . - - 51h 
Fruit with 5 rounded angles . 12. 
II. Flowers mostly tetramerous. Cotyledons angled plicate 
contortuplicate or deeply sulcate. 
a Flowers panicled. Shrubs or trees. 
Flowers collected at the ends of the peduncles, forming 
umbellate or capitulate spikes. 
Leaves elliptical; wings of the fruit very thin and 
ample. Flowers red. elise 
Leaves narrowly lanceolate, wings of the fruit ‘small, 
hard, and scarcely membranous. Flowers dull yellow 14, 
Flowers fascicled or in small oblong spikes. 
Limb of the calyx tubular-campanulate. 
Flowers in vast spreading panicles, petals red, 
broadly ovate, rounded at the apex . 15. 
Flowers on long narrow virgate branches. Petals 
red, orbicular concave . ae AG. 
Flowers cloth-like. Petals minute spathulate Peale 
Limb of the calyx cyathiform. 
Petals orbicular, concave, reflexed . - 18 
Petals broadly and obtusely 7 wedge-shaped 
below, not reflexed 
8 Flowers in axillary spikes or racemes , not panicled. 
Shrubs or trees. 
Leaves and branches lepidote. 
Leaves densely lepidote, at least when young. 
Leaves not viscid, petioles short. 
Style without glands © 2. . 2... © . 20. 
Style with stipitate glands .. . . . . . 21. 
Leaves not viscid, petioles longer. . . . . 22. 
Leaves viscid, at least when YOUNG es 3c) 2. 25. 
Leaves sparingly lepidote, at least when young. 
Fruit winged. trees ¢ or erect shrubs. 
Fruit less than 1 in. long, 4-winged, wings 
equal. 
Leaves 1 in. long, ovate . . . 24, 
Leaves about 3 in. long by 2 in. ‘broad, 
ovate-elliptical, dotted below with minute 
pale-coloured scales . . 26 
Leaves about 5 in. long by 2i in. broad, "ob- 
long-elliptical, covered beneath with 
large ruby-coloured scales . . . . . 27 
Fruit less than 1 in. long, 3- or 2-winged. 
Wings usually 3, eae 
Wings 2, equal 
Fruit 14 in. long or more. 
Leaves plane . . cs ee be 20 
Leaves reflexed at the apex ene rey }" 
Fruit winged. Scandent shrubs. 
Fruit sessile, 9 lines long ce 20. 
Fruit pedicellate, 2 in. long, leaves obovate . 32, 
Fruit pedicellate, Pah in. long, leaves oblong- 
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[ Combretum. 
CO. aculeatum. 
O. sericeum. 
C. acutum. 
C. pentagonum. 
C. racemosum. 
C. capituliflorum. 
C. paniculatum. 
C. virgatum. 
C. fuscum, 
. C. cuspidatum. 
» 19, 
C. mucronatum. 
C. eleeagnoides.~ 
C. truncatum. & 
C. ecllinum. 
C. lepidotum. 
C. microphyllum. 
. ©, altum. 
. 0. laxiflorum. 
C. anisopterum. 
C. dipterum. 
. C. rubiginosum. 
. C. apiculatum. — 
C. angolense. 
C. Kirkii. ~ 
C. paradoxum. 
C. tetragonum. 
