49. COMBRETACEJE. [1 Terminalia. 



racemes or heads, generally sessile. Hypanthium enclosing 

 the ovary and often prolonged above it into a beak carrying 

 a more or less tubular or campanulate 4-5-lobed limb or 

 1 calyx-tube.' Petals between the lobes, or 0. St. 2-seriate, 

 twice as many as the lobes or one series reduced or absent, 

 sometimes doubled. Ovary inferior 1-celled with few 

 pendulous ovules. 'Style simple. Fr. 1 seeded usually dry 

 and indehisoent generally 2-5-angled or winged. Seed 

 exalbuminous. 



All parts usually rich.in tannin. 



A. Trees. Petals 0. 



Fls. in spikes or racemes, often panicled . .1. Terrmnalia, 

 Fls. capitate • • 2. Anogewus. 



B. Shrubs; often sarmentose or climbing. Petals 4-5 



rarely 0. 



Fls. small greenish, bracts sometimes petaloid . 3. Combretum. 



Fla. showy. Calyx-tube above ovary very long . 4. Qwisqualis. 



1, Terminalia, L. 



Trees with opp. sub. opp. or alt. leaves sometimes clustered 

 at the ends of the twigs and often bearing large glands on 

 the petiole or base of the blade. Small greenish fls. in the 

 axils of caducous bracts, in simple or panicled spikes 4-6- 

 merous. Hypanthium not beaked above the ovary, " calyx- 

 tube " campanulate. St. twice as many as the calyx-lobes 

 inserted above the hairy disc. Ovules 2-3. Fruit drupaceous 

 or dry, endocarp 4- 5 -angled, or when dry the pericarp pro- 

 duced* into wings (5 in our species). 



&. Fr. drupaceous, not winged. 



I. L. alt- and clustered at the ends of the twigs. 

 Spikes simple. 



Petioles very short. Fr. glabrous compressed 

 elliptic 1. Catappa. 



Petioles 1" and more. Fr. tomentose, globose 

 or pjrif orm . ..,,-- . . . • .2. belerica. 



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