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_ CommretTum craNnpirtorum. Larce FLow- 
ERED CoMBRETUM. 
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| Class and Order. 
OcranpriA Monoeynia. 
( Nat. Ord —Compreracez. ) 
Generic Character. 
3 — . Calycis limbus infundibuliformis, 4-lobus, deciduus. Pet. 
 4—5, inter lobos calycis inserta. Stam. 8—10, biserialia ; 
_ €x his 4—5, petalis opposita, altius inserta. Germen 2—5- 
 OVvulatum. Stylus exsertus, acutus. Fructus 4—5-pteri, 
 Llocul. 1-spermi, indehiscentes. Semen angulatum, pen- 
dulum. DC. Jie : 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Compretum * grandiflorum ; inerme, scandens, molliter 
hirsuta, foliis oppositis ovali-oblongis acutis integer- 
rimis basi subcordatis, floribus densis secundis spicatis 
decandris, pedunculis he tee pan ovatis acutis. 
MBRETUM grandiflorum. on in Ed. Phil. Journ. 1824, 
- p. 347. De Cand. Prodr. v. 3. p. 21. 
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_ Descr. Stems long, climbing, terete, downy, the down 
mixed with brown, patent hairs, the older ones woody, the 
younger herbaceous, bearing many branches of the same 
character as the parent stem. Leaves in rather distant, 
©pposite pairs, from an inch and a half to five inches long, | 
Oval or oblong, or more frequently partaking of the cha- — 
Tacter of the two, acute, scarcely mucronate at the point, 
slightly cordate at the base, nerved, entire at the margin, 
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* Its etymology unknown. 
