298 OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Combretum. 
laments eight, smooth, many times longer than the calyx, 
and inserted into it. Anthers two-lobed. Germ inferior, 
one-celled, containing two, three, or four ovula, attached 
to the top of the cell. Style nearly as long as the stami- 
na. Stigma acute. 
4. C. acuminatum. R. 
Scandent. Leaves opposite, and alternate, subsessile, 
ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, with a cordate base. Spikes — q 
axillary, and terminal. Calyx campanulate, a very be 
belt within. Petals subrotund. 
Patjooni, the vernacular name in Silhet, where it is" 
found wild in the forests, running over trees, &c. to a 
great extent. Flowers in March and April; seed ripe in 
July. ; | 
Young shoots downy. Leaves subopposite, and alter- 
nate, subsessile, from oblong to ovate-lanceolate, entire; 
base cordate; apex alternate and acute; upper surface 
pretty smooth, villous underneath ; from four to six inches — 
long, and from one to three broad. Spikes axillary and 
terminal, peduncled, shorter than the leaves, villous. 
Flowers numerous, sessile, small, yellow. Calyx cam- 
panulate ; mouth acutely four-toothed, round the inside 
just below the insertion of the filaments, is a very hairy, 
membranaceous ring, with the lower hairs thereof point- 
ing down, while those above point up through the mouth 
of the tube, and are straw-coloured. This hairy valve, 
or membrane, will immediately point out this species. * 
Petals four, round-oval, yellow. Stamina eight. Germ 
ovate, one-celled, containing three or four ovula, at- 
tached to the top of the cell. | Style length of the stami- 
na. Stigma simple. Seed oblong, four-cornered, the four — 
sides grooved; angles thick and rounded, smooth, dark ; 
brown and dry. Integuments two, no perisperm. Embryo 
inverse, with the large cotyledons most intricately folded — 
