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COMBRETUM PURPUREUM. MADAGASCAR 

 COMBRETUM. 



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Class and Order. 



OCTANDRIA MoNOGYNIA. 



Generic Character. 



Cat. 4 — 5-dentatus, campanulatus, superus. Cor. 4 — 5- 

 petala, calyci inserta. Stamina longissima. Scm. I, 4 — 5- 

 angulare ; angulis membranaceis. 



Specific Character and Synonyms. 



Combretum purpureu?n ; floribus decandris, racemis sim- 

 plicibus compositisque, foliis ovato-oblongis. 



Combretum coccineum floribus decandris, spicis laxis pa- 

 niculatis. (Chigonier de Madagascar.) Lam. Encyl. 1. 

 p. 734. Ill.t.2$2.f.2. 



Combretum purpureum ; foliis ovato-oblongis calycibusque 

 nudis, spicis simplicibus secundis. Vahl Symb. 3. p. 51. 

 Per soon Syn. 1. p. 4. 



Combretum purpureum ; foliis oppositis ovatis acutis, racemis 

 secundis bracteatis, bracteis pcdunculo brevioribus, flori- 

 bus decandris. Willd. Sp. PI 2. p. 319. 



Cristaria. Sonnerat it. 2. p. 247. t. 140. 



This beautiful climbing shrub is a native of Madagascar, 

 and was raised from seeds sent from the Mauritius to our 

 friend Robert Barclay, Esq. ; and flowered in his stove at 

 Bury Hill in June last, among many other rare plants from 

 that country. 



This species is constantly decandrous, and has five petals 

 and five wings to the seed-vessel ; for it appears to us to be 

 a five-winged capsule, containing a single seed about the size 

 and shape of a barley-corn, rather than a naked seed with 



membranaceous angles. 



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