484 LA'. COMIIIIKTACE.E. 



filaments shorter. Fruit g in. long, ovoid, glabrous, joiigltudinallf 

 striate wlien dry, crowned hv the pei'sistent calyx-tube. Fl. B. I. v. 2, 

 p. 452 ; Grab. Cat. p. 70 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 90 ; Bedd. For. Man. in 

 Flor. Syhat. p. ciii, t. 21, fig. 2 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 2, p. 162 ; Talb. 

 Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 164 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1898) 

 p. 036 ; Watt, Diet. Ecou. Prod. v. 5, p. 97. — Flowers : Jan.-Apr. 



KoNKAN : S. Konkan along salt-water creeks and backwaters, Talbot, Nimmo ex 

 Grahfiiii ; Ratnagiri, Woodrow. 



The tree grows with the mangrove along the muddy creeks and is, as are other 

 shrubs which grow iu similar localities, known also as a mangrove. 



5. COMBRETUM, Linn. 



Shrubs often scandent. Leayes usually opposite and simple, entire, 

 ])etiolate. Flowers hermaphrodite or polygamo-dioecious, in spikes, 

 racemes or panicles ; bracteole.s minute. Calyx-tube cylindric or 4-6- 

 gonous, constricted above the ovary; limb campaniilate,4-5-{id, deciduous. 

 Petals 4-5 (very rarely 0), inserted between the calyx-lobes. Stamens 8 

 or 10, biseriate ; filaments filiform, elongate; anthers small, didymous. 

 Ovary inferior, 1-celled ; ovules 2-6, pendulous from the apex of the 

 cell ; style subulate ; stigma simple. Fruit dry, usually iudehiscent, 

 4-5-gonous or 4-.5-winged, the wings often membranous. Seed 1 ; 

 cotyledons plaited or flat, in a few species convolute. — Distbib. Tropics 

 of America, Asia and Africa, also in S. Africa ; species 160. 



Calyx-limb cup-shaped 1. C. ovalifolinm. 



Calyx-limb funnel-snaped 2. C. e.xtensicm. 



1. Combretum ovalifolium, Buxh. Hort. Bern/. (1814) p. 28. 

 A large scandent shrub ; bark jiale-brown, smooth ; branches terete ; 

 young parts glabrous. Leaves 2-4 by li-2| in., opposite, elliptic or 

 elliptic-lanceolate, obtusely acuminate, glabrous or nearly so, usually 

 narrowed at the base into the petiole ; main nerves 4-6 pairs ; petioles 

 ^-| in. long, channelled. Flowers sessile, j\-\ in. long, in short 

 rather dense, often panicled axillary spikes, occasionally forming a 

 large terminal panicle ; main rhachis of the panicle densely pubescent, 

 its branches slender, pubescent, often opposite or subopposite ; buds 

 globose, apiculate ; bracteole at the base of the calyx minute. Calyx- 

 tube glabrous outside, constricted into a short neck above the ovary, 

 then suddenly expanded into a cup-shaped limb, densely hairy at the 

 base within; lobes 4, ovate, acute, reliexed, j\ in. long. Petals 4, 

 oblong, obtuse, y'^ iu. long by ^V in. broad, white. Disk hairy. 

 Stamens 8, in 2 series, those opposite to the petals inserted higher up 

 than the others. Fruit pale-golden-brow n, |-1 in. long and nearly as 

 broad, with 4 papery finely transversely striate wings. Seed 4-sided. 

 Fl. B. I. v. 2, p. 458; Grah. Cat. p. 70: Dalz. & Gibs. p. 90 ; Trim. 

 Fl. Ceyl. v. 2, p. 163; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 165 ; Woodr. in 

 Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1898) p. 636; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. 

 V. 2, p. 514. ComhreUim Heifiieanum, Wall. Cat. 4001 ; Wight, in 

 Jlook. Miscell. v. 3 (1833) p. 86, Suppl. Tab. 22.— Flowers : Jan.-Mar. 

 Yehn. Zellusi ; Madhel. 



KoNKA.v: Jungles in the Konkan and Ghats, common, Balzell ^- Gibson ; Elephanta, 



