318 COMBRETACE A. QUISQUALIS. 
nate, about half as long as the lobes of the calyx.—Wall.! L. n. 4007; 
Wight! cat. n. 1055.—C. laxum, Roab. fl. Ind. 2. p. 231 (not Jacq.) —Rheed. 
Mal. 7. t. 28. : 
VIL QUISQUALIS. Rumph.; Linn.; Lam. ill. t. 357. 
Tube of the calyx slender, produced much beyond the ovarium, deciduous, 
the limb 5-cleft. Petals 5, oval-oblong, obtuse, longer than the calycine 
teeth. Stamens 10, protruded, inserted into the throat of the calyx, alter- 
nately shorter. Ovary oval-oblong, 4-ovuled. Style filiform, obtuse, ex- 
serted, cohering with the tube of the calyx. Drupe dry, 5-furrowed, acutely 
5-angled. Seed solitary, pendulous, 5-angled. Cotyledons thick, fleshy, 
plano-convex.—Shrubs with somewhat scandent branches. Leaves opposite 
or occasionally alternate, quite entire, ovate. Spikes axillary and terminal. 
982. (1) Q. Indica (Linn.:) young branches densely pubescent: leaves 
ovate, rounded or slightly cordate at the base, when young more or less vil- 
lous or pubescent, afterwards almost glabrous: bracteas ovate-rhomboid, 
acuminated, slightly hairy, partieularly on the margin: flowerslax; petals 
oval-oblong, clothed externally with close-pressed pubescence.—DC. prod. 3. 
p. 23; Roxb. fl. Ind. 2. p. 426; Wall.! L. n. 4010; Wight! cat. n. 1056. =- 
—Q. pubescens, Burm. Ind. p. 104. t. 35. f. 2; Spr. syst. 2. p. 331.—Q. 
glabra, Burm. l. c. t. 28. f. 2; DC. l c.; Spr. l. c. p. 832.—Q. Loureiri, G. 
Don in Mill. dict, 2. p. 667.—Q. villosa, Roxb. ft. Ind. 2. p. 420 ; DC. L c3 
Spr. L c. p. 331.—Rumph. Amb. 5. t. 38. 
The pubescence on the leaves and bracteas varies much according to the lo- 
cality from which the specimen was obtained, and the age of the plant: the 
shape of the leaves, as is obvious from the numerous specimens before us both 
from China and the Peninsula, varies from cordate-ovate and almost obtuse, 
to oblong and acuminated. We have referred to Roxburgh’s Q. villosa, on ` 
the faith of a specimen from Pegu in the Banksian herbarium. Q. densiflora, 
Wall.! L. n. 4011, appears a very distinct species, and perhaps the only other ~ 
one of the genus. 
ORDER LXL—MEMECYLEJE. DC. 
Calyx 4—5-lobed or toothed: the limb striated in the bottom on the 
inside. Petals 4-5, alternate with the sepals, imbricated into the form 
of a cone during wstivation. Stamens twice as many as the petals: 
filaments distinct, in xstivation almost wanting: anthers curved, 2- 
celled, opening by 2 short clefts, during zstivation pointing downwards 
towards the bottom of the limb of the calyx, afterwards by the elonga- 
tion of the filaments erect: connectivum produced below the cells into — 
a kind of beak. Ovarium 1-celled, coherent with the tube of the 
calyx: ovules 4—10, erect, seated at the base of the cell: style l, fili- 
form: stigma simple. Fruit baccate, crowned by the limb of the 
calyx, usually from abortion l-celled. Seeds nut-like, often solitary 
from abortion, erect: testa crustaceous. Albumen none. Radicle 
curved downwards: cotyledons foliaceous, crumpled and wrapped up; 
the one round the other, into the form of a little ball.—Shrubs. Leaves 
opposite, simple, entire, without stipules or dots, feather-nerved or 
rarely 3-nerved, 
