316 | A COMBRETACE X. — Lexsmzsma. 
$ 1. Tube of the calyx slender, much produced beyond the ovary, and resembling 
a pedicel to the limb: stamens 10: fruit imbricated upwards, produced at 
the apex into a long beak (the persistent calyx-tube).—Anogeissus, DC. 
976. (1) C. latifolia (Roxb.:) leaves without glands, elliptieal or obovate, 
obtuse or emarginate, glabrous: peduncles branched,: bearing several heads 
of flowers, or very short with the heads densely ageregated.—« ; peduncles 
conspicuous.— Wight! cat. n. 1051.—C. latifolia, Roxb. Jf. . Ind. 2. p. 442; 
DC. prod. 3. p. 17.—Andersonia altissima, Roxb. in E. I. C. mus. tab. 19.— 
Anogeissus latifolius, Wall.! L. n. 4015.—8 ; partial peduncles very short ; 
heads of flowers aggregated.— Wight ! cat. n. 1097. 
977. (2) C. acuminatus (Roxb. :) leaves without glands, oval or oblong- 
lanceolate, acute; when young pubescent, adult ones glabrous: peduncles 
simple, with one head of flowers.— Roxb. fl. Ind. 2. p. 443; DC. prod. 3. 
p. 17; Wight! cat. n. 1052.—Andersonia acuminata, Roxb. in E. I. C. mus. 
tab. 20.—A. lanceolata, Rott. ; Heyne.—Anogeissus acuminatus, Wall.! L. 
n. 4014. ; 
IV. LUMNITZERA. Willd. (not Jacq.)—Pyrrhanthus. Jack.—Petaloma. 
Roxb. (not Swartz).—Bruguiera. Pet.- Thouars (not Lam.) 
Limb of the calyx persistent, produced beyond the ovary, tubular-campa- 
nulate, 5-cleft ; segments rounded, often unequal. Petals 5, acute, inserted 
on the calyx, twice as long as its limb, spreading or at length recurved. 
Stamens 5-10, erect 3 filaments subulate. Ovary oblong, compressed, 1- 
celled, with 3-5 pendulous ovules. Style subulate. Stigma acute. Drupe 
clove-shaped, ovate-oblong, more or less compressed, bluntly angled, crown- 
ed with the thick persistent calyx: nut linear-oblong, angled, 1-seeded. 
Cotyledons convolute.—Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, cuneate-obovate, 
retuse or emarginate, attenuated at the base into a very short petiole, ob- 
tusely crenated or often quite entire, glabrous, thick and somewhat fleshy, 
almost veinless. Spikes short, generally simple, axillary and solitary, or ter- 
minal and corymbose. Flowers white or red, with two very short bracteoles 
about the middle of the ovary, and one at the base. 
The proportion of parts of the flower, if we can trust to Rheede, is occasionall 
quaternary: but this must be comparatively of rare occurrence, as neither Roxburg 
or Jack appear ever to have seen it so. 
978. (1) L. racemosa (Willd.:) spikes axillary : 5 stamens longer than the 
other alternating ones, about the length of the (white) petals.— Willd. nov. ac. 
act. nat. cur. Berol. 4. p. 186; DC. prod. 3. p. 22.—Jussieua racemosa, Rottl. 
—Petaloma alternifolia, Rowb, Jl. Ind. 2. p. 372.—Combretum alternifolium, 
herb. Madr.—Pyrrhanthus albus, Wail.! L. n. 4019.—Bruguiera M. 
cariensis, DC. prod. 3. p. 23, isqualis sp. Spr. gen. hea oen Hal. 
Mal. 6. t. 37. ——In salt marshes in the southern provinces, and Malabar 
(abundant at Warapoli), growing among the species of Rhizophora. 
Although Rheede only describes 5 Stamens, yet Roxburgh, Petit-Thouars, 
and Willdenow, concur in attributing to this species 5 ta o as the petals, 
alternating with other 5 that are rather shorter: it is possible, however, ps 
some or all of the latter may sometimes be abortive. In the allied L. cocet- 
nea, W. & A. (Pyrrhanthus littoreus, Jack. in Mal. misc. 2. p. 57, and Wall. 
L. n. 4018), the stamens are twice as long as the crimson petals, and vary 
from 5 to 10, 7 being the most frequent number: in that species the spikes 
are terminal and somewhat corymbose. Perhaps, as Dr Wallich suggests, 
the two ought to be conjoined. 
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