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llif pchils flo not embrnce tlic stamens, an error into wliicb Mr. TFenslow (FI. B. I. 

 1. c.) has also f'nllon. E.ifli ])t'lnl cnibraccs t.lie loiif^er stamen vvliicli is opjxjsite to it, 

 as fifj^tiri'd in Wifjlit, 111. t. ilO. Tlie jicfjils of C. inttgcrrhna are white, lliose of 

 C. Iiuida in Roxbiirj^h's lifjiiro yollow. Tlio petals of C. infecicrrima are l;icini;ite, as 

 BJiown bv b(jtli VVifjlit and Eeddoino, whereas those of C. lucida are figured by 

 Roxburgh as regularly creuate and the leaves of the latter plant are regularly and 

 finely serrulate. 



Ob DEB IA\ COMBRETACEiE. 



Trees or slirubs, erect or climbing. Leaves alternate or opposite, 

 coriaceous or niembranous, simple, entire ; petiole often glandular at the 

 top ; stipules 0. Flowers usually hermaphrodite, rarely unisexual or 

 polygamous. Calyx bracteolate at the base ; tube adnate to the ovary 

 and prolonged above it ; limb 4-5 (rarely 6-8) -fid or -partite, its lobes 

 valvate in bnd, deciduous or persistent. Corolla 0, or petals inserted 

 on the calyx, alternate with its lobes, valvate in bud. Htamens in- 

 serted with the petals, sometimes alternate with them, sometimes double 

 their number, of which the alternate 5 are inserted higher than and 

 opposite to the petals ; filaments free, filiform or subulate. Ovary 

 inferior, 1 -celled, usually crowned with a disk ; ovules 1-7 (usually 2-4), 

 pendulous from the apex of the cell; style terminal; stigma usually 

 simple. Fruit usually indehiscent, coriaceous or drupaceous, ovoid, 

 angular, frequently winged, crowned in Cnli/ropteris by the greatly 

 enlarged calyx. Seed 1, exalbuminous; cotyledons large, plaited or 

 convolute. — Distrib. Tropics of the whole world; outside the Tropics 

 in S. Africa ; geuera 15 ; species 320. 



Anthers opening by slits. 

 Petals 0. 



Flowers in spikes or racemes. 



Calyx-limb deeidnous 1. Terminalia. 



Calyx-limb persistent, much enlarged in fruit ... 2. Oalycopteris. 



Flowers in globose beads 3. Anogeissus. 



Petals 4 or 5. 



Leaves alternate ; calyx-limb persistent 4. Lu.mnitzera. 



Leaves opposite ; calyx-limb deciduous 5. Combretum. 



Anthers opening by curved Talves which open upwards 6. Gyrocarpus. 



1. TERMINALIA, Linn. 



Trees. Leaves alternate or ^ubopposite, frequently crowded at the ends 

 of the branches, often with glands on the petiole or at the base of the 

 midrib beneath. Flowers green or white, rarely colored, small, spicate 

 (the spikes sometimes panicled), hermaphrodite or often the upper 

 flowers on the spikes male and the lower hermaphrodite. Calyx-tube 

 ovoid or cylindric, constricted above the ovary ; liuib of 5 short valvate 

 triangular lobes, soon deciduous. Petals 0. Stamens 10, inserted 

 on the calyx-lobes (the epigynous disk within them densely hairy), 

 biseriate, the 5 lower opposite the calyx-teeth, the 5 upper longer and 

 alternate with (he calyx-teeth ; filaments subulate or filiform, exserted. 

 Ovary inferior, 1-celled ; ovules 2-3, pendulous from the apex of the 

 cell ; style subulate, often thickened and villous at the base ; stigma 

 simple. Fruit ovoid, various in size and texture, smooth or angular or 

 2-5-winged, indehiscent, coriaceous. Seed solitary, exalbuminous ; 

 cotyledons convolute. — Disxeib. Tropics of both worlds ; species 135. 



