312 COMBRETACEA. TERMINALIA, 
ma large, peltate. Fruit indehiscent, baccate, 1-celled, reniform.—Evergreen 
glabrous trees. Leaves shining above, serrated or toothed, somewhat. rigid, 
Peduncles axillary, thick, short, rigid, about twice bifid or trifid, several- 
flowered. $ 
We have not seen any of the three described species, and have therefore taken our 
character from a combination of these given by others. Several points, however, re- 
quire to be re-examined: 1. Whether the ovary of C. lucida be really 1-celled with 
several ovules, or whether it be 3-celled with solitary ovules, or lastly, if it beactual- 
Scaled with two ovules in each, being then more analogous to C. lanceolata? 2. 
hat is the structure of the fruit of C. lanceolata? 3. W at is the structure of the 
ovary, stigma, and fruit, of C. Barraldeia (Bar. madagascariensis, DC.)? 4. The 
number of seeds in the fruit, and whether or not there be albumen.— Probably this 
genus, with Cassipourea, ought to form a distinct suborder: neither appear to grow 
in salt-water marshes, nor to have the seed germinating within the fruit, as in the 
true Rhizophoree, between which and Salicariee they would thus form the link. 
963. (1) C. lucida (Roxb. :) leaves oval, acuminated, finely serrated: petals 
6-7, roundish, entire, waved on the margin, much larger than the segments 
of the calyx: stigma concave, 3-lobed.— Rozb. Cor. 3. t. 211; fl. Ind. 2. 
p. 481 ; DC. prod. 3. p. 33 ; Spr. syst. 2. p. 460 ; Wall. L. n. 4890. 
ORDER LX.—COMBRETACEJ/E. R. Brown. 
Calyx 4—5-lobed, lobes deciduous. Petals alternate with the lobes, 
or wanting. Stamens twice as many as the lobes, rarely equal in num- 
ber to them or thrice as many : filaments distinct, subulate : anthers bi- 
locular, bursting longitudinally. Ovarium coherent with the tube of 
the calyx, 1-celled : ovules 2-5, pendulous from the apex of the cavity : 
style 1, slender: stigma simple. Fruit drupaceous, baccate, or nut- 
like, 1-celled, indehiscent, often winged. Seed solitary (by abortion), 
pendulous. Albumen none.  Radicle superior: cotyledons usually 
leafy and either convolute or variously folded, sometimes fleshy and 
plano-convex.— Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate or opposite, exsti- 
pulate. 
TRIBE L. —TERMINALIEE. DC. 
s eft. Petals usually wanting. Stamens 8-10. Cotyledons spirally con- 
I. TERMINALIA. Linn. 
Flowers often polygamous from abortion. Limb of the calyx deciduous, 
campanulate, 5-cleft, the lobes acute. Petals wanting. Stamens 10, in 
double row, longer than the calyx. Ovary 2-3-ovuled. Style filiform, some- 
what acute. Drape not crowned by the calyx, often dry, indehiscent, 1- 
seeded. Seed almond-like. Cotyledons spirally convolute.— Trees or shrubs. 
Leaves alternate or rarely Opposite, sometimes crowded towards the extre- 
mities of the branches. Flowers spiked: spikes racemose or panicled, bi- 
sexual in the lower part of the spike, male in the upper. 
$ 1. Drupe compressed, winged or much attenuated at the margins.—Catappa, 
Gertn. fr. t. 127, 217.— Terminalia, Lam. ill. t. 848. 
964. (1) T. angustifolia (Jacq. :) leaves linear-lanceolate, somewhat repand, 
attenuated at both ends, the under side and the petioles pubescent or hairy : 
