Materials for a Flora of tlie Malayan Teninsula. 



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Kiirz For. Fl. Brit. Burma I, 468 ; Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Tnd. IT, 

 •452. Pyrranthus alhus, Wall. Cat. 4019. Petaloma alternifolia, Roxb. 

 Fl. Ind. ir, 372. Bruguiera madagascariensis, DC. Prodr. Ill, 23. 

 Rheede Hort. Mai. VI, t. 37. 



In Mangrove-swamps in all the Provinces. Distrib. British India, 

 the Malayan Archipelago, North Australia and Polynesia. 



4. COMBRETUM, Limi. 



Shrubs with long pendent or scand en t branches, leaves entire, 

 petioled, opposite or more seldom alternate or ternate. Flowers herma- 

 phrodite or polygamo-dioecious, in spikes or panicles, bracteoles small. 

 Calyx-tube constricted above the ovary, short or long-produced, urceo- 

 late funnel-shaped tubular or campanulate ; limb 4-5-lobed, deciduous. 

 Petals as many as the calyx-lobes, (0 in C. apetalum), placed on the 

 calyx-limb. Stamens twice as many as the petals, inserted in two series 

 with them. Otjar?/ inferior, 1-celled ; style I, subulate, simple; ovules 

 2-5, pendent from the top of the cell. Fruit with 4-5 wings ano-les or 

 ridges, dry, generally indehiscent. Seed 1 ; cotyledons plaited or flat, 

 iu a few species convoluted. Distrib. Species 160, common in tlie 

 tropics of America, Africa and Asia ; also in South Africa. 

 Flowers S-merons ; fruit 5-angled ... ... ... 1. 



Flowers 4-raerous ; fruit 4-angled ... ... ... 2. 



Flowers 4-tnerous ; fruit 4- winged : — 



Tube of calyx much elongate ; flowers not squamose, buds 

 ellipsoid, their apices very much pointed : — 



Flowers condensed in globose masses at the ends of the 

 branches of the panicle 

 Flower-spikes elongated 

 Tube of calyx long ; flowers squamose, buds globose, the 

 apex rather acute 

 Tube of calyx short ; buds not pointed : — 



Flowers squamose ; leaves not cordate and with distiucfc 

 petioles •3-*4 in. long : — 



Fruit not compressed, its faces all narrow and equal, 



its wings broad and thin ... ... ... 6. C squamosum. 



Frnit compressed, two of its faces broad and two 



narrow, its wings short and thick ... ... 7. 0. Wrayi. 



Flowers not squamose ; leaves cordate and with very 

 short petioles ('OS- 15 in. long) : — 

 Leaves glabrous except tlie midrib : — 



Panicle and calyx with short thick glandular hairs 8. C. Kunstleri. 

 Panicles cinereous-tomentose ; flowers paberulous ; 

 frnit black when ripe and with narrow wings ... 9. C. nigrescens. 

 Leaves, except when old, with long adpressed hairs 

 beneath ; panicles sericeous-tomentose ; fruit pale- 

 bruwu when dry, with broad thin wings ... ... 10. C. Scortechinii. 



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C. trifoliatum. 

 C. tetraiophum. 



