336 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



1. CoMBRETUM TRiFOLiATUM, Vent. Choix t. 58. A powerful 

 climber; young branches slender, terete, glabrous or puberulous ; in the 

 older branches the bark scaling off. Leaves coriaceous, opposite or 

 alternate, oblong-lanceolate or ol)long-oblanceolate, or narrowly elliptic, 

 sub-acute, the base cuneate ; both surfaces glabrous and shining ; main 

 nerves 5-7 pairs, spieading or ascending, distinct on the lower surface, 

 hardly visible on the upper, reticulations indistinct; length l"75-5*5 

 in., breadth '8-2 in., petiole •2-"25 in. Spikes axillary, solitary or in pairs, 

 or terminal and in panicles, puberulous. Flowers "15 in. in diam. at 

 the mouth, densely crowded. Calyx-tnhe with a very short constriction 

 above the ovary ; the mouth wide, cupnlar, and with 5 broad triangular 

 teeth, everywhere adpressed-pubescent externally. Petals lanceolate, 

 slightly exceeding the calyx-lobes in length. Bisc and bottom of the 

 mouth of the calyx pubescent. Stamens exserted. Fruit 1-1-1*25 in. 

 long and '5 in. in diam., with 5 very acute angles, glabrous, dark-biown 

 when ripe. G. Don in Trans. Linn. Soc. XV, 439 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 

 1, pt. I, 610; Kurz For. Fl. Brit. Burma 1,461; Clarke in Hook. fil. 

 Fl. Br. Ind. II, 454. C. hicidiim, Blume Bijd. 641. 0. undulatiim and 

 C. elegans, Wall. Cat. 3993, 4003. C. suhalternans, Wall. Cat. 4008 ? 

 Terminalia lancifolia, Griff. Notul. IV, 685. Embryogouia lucida, 

 Blume Mus. Bot. 11, t. 52. Cacoucia? trifoliata, DC. Prodr. IT, 22. G. 

 hicida, Hassk. in Flora 1814, p. 607. 



Trang ; King's Collector ; doubtless also occurring in other provinces. 

 DiSTKiB. British India, Java. 



2. CoMBRETUM TETRALOPHL'M, Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 

 454. A powerful climber ; young branches slender, with minute brown 

 ruety scales. Leaves opposite, thinly coriaceous, oblong-elliptic, shortly 

 acuminate, the base cuneate ; upper surface glabrous, shining, the lower 

 with scattered brown glands w^hen young and puberulous on the midrib 

 and nerves ; main nerves 7 or 8 pairs, oblique, ascending, inconspicuous 

 on both surfaces ; length 2-5-5*5 in., breadth 1-2 in., petiole •3-*4 iti. 

 Spikes axillary, solitary, much shorter than the leaves, slightly scaly 

 below the flowers, very scaly and puberulous between them. Floioers 

 •1 in. in diam. at the mouth. Calyx-tuhe constricted above the ovary, 

 the constricted part as long as the ovary ; the mouth campanulate and 

 with 4 ovate erect pubescent lobes. Pdnls slightly longer than the 

 calyx-lobes but much narrower, linear. Disc and fundus of the mouth 

 of the calyx rusty-villous. Stamens and style exserted. Fruit '75-1 in. 

 long and half as broad, shining, dark-coloured, the edges very acute but 

 not winged. 



Malacca; Gripth 2195. Perak ; King's Collector 1012. Distrib. 

 Siam, Borneo. 

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