48. RH1Z0 HORACES. 



Petals otten small, free, caducous, alt. with the sepals. St, 

 twice as many as the petals. Ovary inferior or half-inferior, 

 5-1-celled (in Carrallia usually 4-celled), styles connate 

 stigma capitate lobed. Ovules two in each cell, pendulous (in 

 Carallia from the axis). Fruit coriaceous, usually indehiscent 

 1-celled and -seeded. Albumen fleshy or 0. 



In the Mangroves which belong to this family, the seed 

 germinates on the tree. 



A tree, Fls. small shortly cymose Ovary inferior -, . 1. Carrallia. 



1. Carrallia, Roxh 



1. C. lncida, Koxb. Syn. C. integerrima, D.C. Jur, 

 Aramata, K. 1 ; Kierpa, Beng. 



A small tree with opp. shining leathery oblong elliptic or 

 obovate shortly acuminate leaves and stout dense 2-3- 

 chotomous cymes of small greenish sessile flowers, with 

 inconspicuous white erose petals. 



Singbhum, frequent along the banks of streams and dry nalas. 8; P. 

 Fls. Dec-April. br.r.8. Evergreen. New leaves in M arc h and April. 



Branchlets somewhat quadrangular. Buds £-£" long acuminate 

 enclosed in the caducous stipules. L. 3 ' by If" to 6" by 3±" with numerous 

 close fine oblique parallel nerves reticulating within the margin, base 

 acute. Petiole %-%"• Cymes stout dense 1-2'' long. Fls. T y long obconic. 

 Hyyanthium produced above the ovary. Sepals 6-8. Petals sub-' 

 orbicular or quadrate, equalling the sepals, shortly clawed. Lite 

 epigynous, lobuJate. Ovary (3-) 4-celled. Stigma (3-j *4-lobed. Fr. £" 

 globose, coriaceous, crowned bv the persistent sepals and style. 



Fam, 49. COMBRETACEJE. 



Trees or sbrnbs, sometimes -scandent, with opp. or sub- 

 opp., more rarely quite alternate simple exstlpulate leaves. 

 Fls. generally small, sometimes 1-sexual, usually in spikes or 



1 There appears to be no specific Kol name, the names givHn neiong 

 properly to two other trees, vix., Canthium and Antideama. 



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