232 ocTANDRiA MONOGYNiA. Combrefum, 



the younger shoots clothed with much ferruginous, soft 

 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 w ith opposite flowers, bractes, and small 

 floral leaves ; every part densely clothed with much fer- 

 ruginous hair. Flowers tawny, with ferruginous hairs, 

 short-pedicelled. Bractes linear-lanceolar, opposite, 

 one-flowered. Calyx superior, campanulate, five-tooth- 

 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. .S^i//e 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. pi. 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. 



It is a large, climbing shrub, a native of forests and 

 mountains, &c. Flowers during the cold season. 



Stem woody, climbing. Leaves opposite, reflected. 



