4S6 T,A'. COMBRETACR-T.. 



1. Gyrocarpus americanus, Jacqwn, Select. Stlrp. Amer. (1703) 

 p. 282, t. 17S, lig. SO. A moderate-sized tree; bark smooth, shining, 

 greenish-white ; young branches stout, marked with leaf-scars, glabrous. 

 Leaves 4-6 in. long and nearly as broad as long, ovate, acuminate, 

 sometimes irregularly lobed, pubescent when young, afterwards glabrous 

 or nearlv so, base broad, truncate, cordate or soinetiiues shortly cuneate, 

 3-nerved from the base, the 2 lateral nerves soon forked, veins closely 

 reticulate; petioles 1-5 in, long, slender. Flowers small, white, clus- 

 tered in lai'go branched cymes, the males very numerous, the females 

 few ; peduncles long, pubescent, several arising from the t\Aigs above the 

 new leaves. Calyx densely hairy on both sides. Stamens alternating 

 with hairy clavato staminodes : anthers large, dehiscing by valves which 

 open upwards (as the anthers of Lctnracece). Fruit (without the wings) 

 |-| in. in diain., globose-ovoid, slightly pubescent, wrinkled in the lower 

 part, furrowed in the upper, surmounted by 2 pubescent longitudinally 

 striate oblanceolate or spatluilate wings about | in. broad in the widest 

 part and often 3 in. long. Gijrocarpus Jacquini, Gsertn. Fruct. v. 2 

 (IT'Jl) p. 02, t. 97, fig. 3 ; Eoxb. Cor. PI. v. 1 (1795) t. 1 ; Grab. Cat. 

 p. 2o0 ; C. B. Clarke, in Hook. f. Fl. B. I. v. 2, p. 461 ; Bedd. Flor. 

 Sylvat. t. 196; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. v. 2, p. 165; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, 

 p." 165; Watt, Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 4, p. 197.— Flowers : July- Aug. 

 Veux. Zaitun. 



DF.rcAN : banks of llie Krishna river near Nalatwar, Graham. S. M. Countuv : 

 Bclgaum cli^t^icts in dry forests, Talhot. — Distimh. India near the sea; Ceylon, 

 Malaya. 



Quisr/uaUs indica, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. ii, p. 556, a large subscandent 

 shrub with elliptic acuminate leaves and handsome showy flowers, which 

 are at first white, then orange, and finally red, a native of Java and the 

 Malayan Peninsula, is very extensively cultivated in cjardens as an orna- 

 mental plant. It rarely if ever produces fruit in the Bombay Presidency, 

 where it is known as the Rangoon Creeper. Fl. E. I. v. 2, p. 459 : Grali. 

 Cat. p. 70 : Dalz. & Gibs. Suppl. p. 33 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. 

 V. 11 (1898) p. 637, & Gardening in Ind. ed. 5, p. 312 ; Watt, Diet. 

 Econ. Prod. v. 6, part 1, p. 388. — Flowers : Mar.-Aug. Yekn. Ran- 

 gunachavel ; Bdrmdsi ; Ldlachameli. 



Order LYL MYRTACE^. 



Erect trees or shrubs, rarely herbs. Leaves usually opposite, petiolate, 

 simple, entire, rarely denticulate or crenate, often with an intramarginal 

 nerve and punctate with resinous or pellucid glands ; stipules minute 

 and deciduous or 0. Flowers usually regular, hermaj)hrodite or rarely 

 polygamou!*, axillary, solitary, or in spikes, cymes, corymbs, or heads, 

 naked or with an involucre, often with 2 bracts at the base. Calyx 

 superior or ^-superior, the tube rarely produced beyond the ovary; limb 

 usually 4-5-fid or -partite, persistent or deciduous, valvate or imbricate, 

 often closed in bud. Disk lining the calyx-tube. Petals as many as the 

 calyx-lobes and alternate with them (rarely 0), inserted on the margin of 

 the disk, usually much imbricate in bud, sometimes more or less connate 



