tV. COMllRKT.VCE.T]. 485 



G ntJiiuii ; KomVuu, Sto<-/,s\ Dkccan : K:n'V\, fVoiH/mw. Ovjarxt: Grnliam; Rnjkot, 

 C. M(u-n(i(jhtcH\ S. M. CoiNTKY : Uelgiiuin, /^<<cA(c, 287 ! — Distuib. India (Gujarat 

 to Cape Coinoriii) ; Coylou. 



2. Combretum extensutn, Roxh. Hort. Benrj. (1814) p. 28. 

 A large scaiidtMit sliriil), glal)i-ous or nearly so. Leaves opposite, 

 2-G by 1.4-3 in. (sometimes, tliough rarely, reaching 8 by 4| in.), 

 usually broadly elliptic, shortly acuminate or cuspidate, glabrous on 

 both sides, base usually rounded ; main nerves 4-7 pairs ; petioles 

 §-:} in. long. Flowers sessile, -^ in. long, usually in solitary dense 

 axillary spikes, rarely panicled or termiual ; buds ovoid or subglobose, 

 very acute at the apices. Calyx puberulous outside, contracted above 

 the ovary and then at once expanding into a funnel-shaped limb ; 

 lobes 4, triangular, very acute or acuminate, reflexed, -^ in. long. 

 Petals yellowish-white, J^ in. long and broad, oblong, truncate or very 

 slightly emarginate at the apex. Disk hairy. Ovary 4-gonous. Fruit 

 ]^-l| in. and (including the wings) almost as broad as long; wings 

 siarious, horizontally striate, glabrous, f 1. B. I. v. 2, p. 4.58 ; Trim. 

 Fl. Ceyl. p. 104 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 105 ; Woodr. in Journ. 

 Bomb. Nat. v. 11 (1898) p. 030. Combretum Wir/Jitianum, A\^all. Cat. 

 4007 ; Wight, Icon. t. 227 ; Grab. Cat. p. 70 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 90.— 

 F'lowers : Jan. Veen. Filuki. 



KoNKAN : hilly parts, Dahell ^f Gibson ; Vingorla, Dahell S,- Gibson, Ritchie, .35'? ! 

 Deccan : abiuidant at Khandala and Lanoli, Graham ; Xbandala, Cooke I, IVoodrow I 

 S. M. CouKTUY : Raiiigliat, Hifchie. Kanaka: moist forests of N. Kanara, Talbot. — 

 DiSTRiB. India (W. Peninsula) ; Ceylon, Malaya. 



Comhretuni cocclneum, Lamk. Encyc. Method, v. 1 (1784) p. 734. 

 A very beautiful plant, a native of Madagascar and the Mauritius. 

 The foliage is dark-green, and the flowers, which are produced in 

 dense elegant racemes, are of a brilliant scarlet color. It does not 

 always flower freely in the Deccan. It is usually propagated by layers, 

 but cuttings may be struck from young shoots in fine sand under a 

 bell glass. Woodr. Gard. in Ind. ed. 5, p. 313. Poivrea coccinea, DC, 

 Prodr. V. 3, p. 18 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Suppl. p. 34 ; Firminger, Man. Gard. 

 ed. 3, p. 504. 



6. GYROCARPUS, Jacquin. 



A tall tree with thick branches. Leaves alternate, large, entire 

 or lobed, membranous, crowded at the ends of the branches. Flowers 

 small, unisexual and monoecious, or polygamous, hi dense ebracteate 

 cymes. Male floweks very numerous. Calyx 4-7-partite. Petals 0. 

 Stamens 4-7, inserted at the bottom of the calyx, alternating with as 

 many clavate fleshy stamiuodes ; anthers 2-celled, dehiscing by valves. 

 Ovary 0. Female ff.owebs few. Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary, 

 ovoid ; limb 2-lobed, the lobes oblong, obtuse, persistent, much enlarged 

 in fruit. Petals 0. IStamens 0. Ovary l-CL41ed ; ovule 1, pendulous 

 from the apex of the cell ; style ; stigma sessile. Fruit drupe-like, 

 crowned with the long wing-like persistent calyx-segmeuts ; stone 

 bony. Seed broadly oblong, terete ; cotyledons large, convolute. — • 

 DiSTEiB. Tropics generally ; species 1. 



