Cacoucia. | LV, COMBRETACEZ (LAWSON). 435 
Petals 5, broadly oblanceolate, rounded at the apex, red. Stamens 10. 
Fruit ovoid, acute at both ends, subpentagonal. 
Upper Guinea. Bagroo river, Mann! 
Our African species differs from the Brazilian C. coccinea in the greater length of 
the limb of the calyx , also the petals in the African species are narrower and longer ; 
in all other respecis they seem identical. 
9. QUISQUALIS, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 689. 
Tube of the calyx ovoid, subterete below, not constricted above the 
ovary, greatly prolonged, tubular and very slender, deciduous ; limb 
5-partite, lobes small, patent or retlexed. Petal 5, obtuse. Stamens 
10, short, exserted; anthers ovate. Ovary 1-celled. Style filiform, 
exserted. Ovules 3-4. Fruit dry, oblong, acute, with 5 narrow wings, 
coriaceous.—Climbing shrubs. 
A genus of 2 species. 
1. Q. indica, Linn. ; DC. Prod. iii. 23. Shrub, often scandent, 8-15 
ft. high ; branches round, puberulous. Leaves opposite or subopposite, 
oval or obovate, often shortly acuminate and slightly cordate at the 
base, very variable in size and shape, glabrous or pre Flowers 
13-4 in. ae collected together in short spikes. Petals white, turning 
red. Bracteate or ebracteate. — Q. ebracteata, Beauv.; Fl. Owar. 1. 
57, t. 85; DC. Le. ; 
Upper Guinea. Camaroon river, Mann! Abbeokuta, Dr. Irving! Old Calabar, 
Mann! Nupe, Barter! Quorra, T. Vogel! 
Lower Guinea. Congo, Consul Burton! td : 
The African plants do not seem to differ essentially from those of Asia, in which the 
bracts are often wanting, while in the African specimens they are sometimes present. 
The only other species, Q. parviflora, is a native of the parts about Natal. 
10. GYROCARPUS, Jacq. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 689. 
Flowers mostly unisexual. Calyx of the male flowers 4~7-partite 
with oblong-spathulate obtuse equal or unequal segments. Petals 0. 
Stamens 4-7; anthers broadly oblong, dehiscing by 2 valves. Female 
flowers with an ovoid calyx-tube, and with 2 lobes of the limb 
oblong, obtuse, persistent, accrescent. Petals 0, Ovary 1-celled, with 
& solitary pendulous ovule. Style 0. Fruit a woody drupe crowned 
With the 2 enlarged lobes of the calyx. 
A genus of 1 species only, which is distributed throughout the Tropics. 
1. G. Jacquini, Roxb. Pl. Corom.i.2,t.1. Large tree. Leaves 
alternate, on long petioles, glabrous or tomentose, very broadly ovate, 
a ge J trees often 1 ft. long and deeply 3-lobed, on older trees 
smaller, entire, or broadly and shortly 3-lobed, more or less acuminate, 
truncate or cordate at the base. Flowers cymose, very small and 
numerous ; cymes springing from the axils of the upper leaves. — Drupe 
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