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3. CoMBRETUM SUNDIACUM, Miq. Fl. lud. Bat. Suppl, 327. A very 

 powerful climber ; young branches closely covered with deciduous 

 scales. Leaves opposite, thinly coriaceous, broadly elliptic to elliptic- 

 orbicular, abruptly and very shortly acuminate ; the base rounded, 

 rarely slightly cuneate, sometimes unequal-sided ; both surfaces glab- 

 rous, the upper punctate and with very sparse scales ; the lowei'with the 

 scales more numerous and white with dark centres; main nerves about 

 6 pairs, oblique, curving slightly, not prominent on the upper surface but 

 slightly so on the lower when dry ; length 2'75— i in., breadth l"8-2'75 in., 

 petiole •4-*8 in. Panicles axillary and terminal, umbellate, longer than 

 the leaves, the branches ending in dense globose minutely bracteolate 

 spikes. Calyx-iube about "35 in. long, minutely pubescent, not scaly, 

 4-ridged along the ovary, above it cylindric, expanding upwards into 

 a funnel-shaped mouth with 4 narrowly triangular-acuminate reflexed 

 lobes ; calyx inside with a ring of hairs at its base but not filled with 

 long coarse hair, narrowly ovate and very acute in bud. Petals much 

 shorter than the calyx-lobes, oval, not clawed, glabrous. Stamens 

 exserted. Fruit about 1 in. long and nearly as broad, with 4 coria- 

 ceous horizontally-striate shining wings, and with a few minute scattered 

 scales. Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl, Br. Ind. I, 458. 



Malacca ; Maingay 648. Singapore ; Hullett 89 ; Ridley 46G8. 

 Pekak ; ScortecUni 1016. King's Collector 4360, 4452, 5864, 7827 ; 

 Wray 4272. 



Readily recognised by its panicled inflorescence, the branches being umbellate 

 and each ending in a globose spike of flowers with very acute buds which are not 

 scaly. 



4. CoMBRETUM EXTENSUM, Roxb. Hort. Bcng. 28 ; Fl. Ind. II, 229. 

 A large climber ; young shoots rather slender, sometimes angled, 

 very sparsely lenticellate. Leaves opposite or nearly so, coriaceous, 

 broadly elliptic to sub-rotund, rarely ovate, the apex shortly and 

 abruptly acuminate or sub-acute ; the base broad and rounded, rarely 

 slightly cuneate ; both surfaces glabrous ; the lower reticulate, punctate 

 and slightly rough ; main nerves 6 or 7 pairs, spreading, interarching 

 a little way from the edge ; length 4*5-7 in., breadth 2"75-4 in., petiole 

 •G-1'5 in., stout. Spikes axillary and solitary, or sometimes in few- 

 branched panicles, rarely terminal, often as long as or hmger than the 

 leaves, puberulous. Floioers *25 in. wide at the mouth when expanded ; 

 the buds ovate, very acute at the apices. Calyx-tube very long, ('35 in.) 

 infundibuliform, puberulous ; the mouth "15 in. long, deeply cut into 

 4 triangular acuminate reflexed lobes. Petals ovate- truncate or obovate, 

 shorter than the calyx-lobes ; calyx with a ring of hairs at the throat 

 inside, otherwise nearly glabrous. Fruit when fully ripe about 1-25-1-5 

 in. long, and (including the wings) nearly as broad, wings scariose, 



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