226 OCTANDRIA MON®GYNIA, Combretum, 
1. C. ovalifolium. R. 
Scandent. Leaves opposite, oval, smooth, obtuse. 
Spikes axillary and terminal, the latter compound. Ca- 
lyx subrotate. Petals elliptic. : 
_ Anative of Coromandel. Flowering time in the Bo- 
tanic Garden at Calcutta March and April. The seeds 
ripen during the rainy season. 
Stem stout, and ligneous, soon dividing into numerous, 
woody, scandent branches and branchlets of great ex- 
tent. Bark of the old parts rough, and brown; of the 
young shoots smooth. Leaves opposite, short-petioled, 
oval, entire, obtuse, smooth on both sides ; from four to 
six inches long, and two to three broad. Stipules none. 
Spikes terminal and axillary ; the former compound, hay- 
ing two, or three pairs of opposite, expanding branch- 
es, and may be called a panicle. Bractes minute, 
subulate, one-flowered. Flowers small, yellowish white, 
sessile. Calyx without a tube, concave within, and there ~ 
the rim is surrounded with a large, orange-coloured, — 
hairy ring ; border four-parted ; segments three, angular, 
reflexed. Petals elliptic, obtuse, longer than the seg- 
ments of the calyx, smooth, white. Filaments longet 
than the petals, incurved, alternately somewhat shorter. - 
Germ inferior, oblong, one-celled, containing two ovu- 
la, attached to the top of the cell. Style shorter than 
the stamina. Stigma simple. Seed narrow-lanceolat, 
four-winged ; wings semilunar, smooth, membranace-_ 
ous. Integuments two; interior thin, and brown. — 
Perisperm none. Embryo inverse. Cotyledons intti- — 
cately folded into the four lobes of the seed, when ex- 
‘panded two-lobed, as in most of the Convolvulacea. Rar 
dicle supetior. 
2, Cc. rolubilifitiats R. Fe 
Scandent. Leaves opposite, petioled, ously oun 
smooth, entire. Racemes axillary, solitary, cylindr 
