230 OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Combretum, 
ings of the lobes. Perisperm none. Embryo inverse, 
Cotyledons two, oval, three-nerved, emarginate, plaited 
into each other. Plumula minute. Radicle clavate, 
superior, pointing directly to the convoluted cord, which 
attaches the inner integument to the outer, under the 
style. 
6. C. chinensis. R. 
Subarboreous, scandent. Leaves opposite, and tern, 
oblong, smooth. Spikes axillary, shorter than the leaves. 
Tube of the calyx clavate, mouth shut with hairs. 
A very large, spreading, ramous, scandent plant, in the 
Botanic Garden at Calcutta ; originally from China, 
Flowering time in Bengal the beginning of the cold 
_season. Y 
Trunk scarcely any, but numerous branches, spreading _ : 
in every direction and climbing when supported, to the 
extent of somefathoms. Bark dark brown ; and pretty 
smooth. Leaves opposite, and tern, petioled, drooping, 
entire, oblong, polished on both sides ; about four inches 
long, and two broad. Spikes axillary, solitary, simple, 
erect, subcylindric, compact, scarcely half the length of 
the leaves, bearing sessile flowers on all sides, _Bractes 
subulate, recurved. Calyx. Tube, clavate ; mouth shut 
with hairs ; border of four, acute segments. Petals obo-— e 
vate, acuminate, twice longer than the segments of the 
calyx, Stamens eight,a little longer than the petals. 
Germ sessile. Style nearly equalling the Blanca 
Seed with four large wings. 
This is evidently different from C. secundum aid de- 
candrum but to distinguish it-from laxum, requires that 
attention be paid to the three-fold leaves ; the form and 2 
length of the spikes, the size of the petals, sae the length 
of the filaments. Vide Jacquin. a Amer. p, 103. 45. 
