932 OCTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Combretum, 
the younger shoots clothed with much ferruginous, soho 
pubescense. : 
Leaves opposite, subsessile, broad ovate-lanceolate, 
entire, nearly smooth, as scarcely any thing more than the 
nerve and veins on the underside are slightly pubescent; 
six or eight inches long, and from one to three broad. Flo- 
ral leaves small, broader in proportion, more pointed, and 
somewhat coloured. Panicles terminal or short, with op- 
posite, diverging, hairy branchlets, very large, crowded 
‘with opposite, brachiate, compound racemes, and those 
again crowded with opposite flowers, bractes, and small — 
floral leaves ; every part densely clothed with mtuch fer- 
ruginous hair. Flowers tawny, with ferruginous hairs, 
short-pedicelled. Bractes linear-lanceolar, opposite, — | 
one-flowered. Calyx superior, campanulate, five-tootb- 
ed, both sides hairy. Petals five, lanceolar, much longer 
than the segments of the calyx, outside clothed with 
appressed fulvous hairs. Filaments ten, much longer 
than the corol, five inserted immediately under the 
petals, and five deep in the tube of the calyx. Germ 
_ five-angled, hairy, one-celled, containing two ovula, 
attached to the top of the cell, Style length of the sta- 
mina. Stigma simple. Seed five-winged, villous. Integu- 
ments two. The exterior is the soft, villous winged tunic; 
the inner a thin dark brown membrane, adhering to the 
cotyledons. Perisperm none, Embryo inverse. Cotyle 
dons angularly-convolute, Radicle superior. , 
11. C. decandrum., Willd. 2.319. Corom. pl.1, N.59. 
Shrubby, climbing. Leaves opposite, oblong, smooth, 
floral leaves coloured, and villous. Spikes terminal, and 
axillary ; flowers decandrous, Capsules five-winged. : 
Teling. Arikota. y 
Itis a large, climbing shrub, a native of forests and f 
mountains, &c. Flowers during the cold season, 
Stem woody, climbing. Leaves opposite, reflecte 
