338 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



o-labrous or glandular-puberuloiis. Wall. Cat. 3996 ; G. Don in TniTis. 

 Linn. Soc. XY, 422; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, pt. I, 608; Kurz For. Fl. 

 J3rit. Burma I, 463; Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 458. G. 

 rotundifolium, Roxb. Fl. Ind. II, 226; Wall. Cat. 3995. C. WigUianum, 

 AVall. Cat. 4007 ; W. & A. Prodr. 317 ; Wight Ic. t. 227 ; T3alz. & Gibs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 90. 0. Horsfieldii, Miq. 1. c. 609 ; Kurz in Flora 1871, p. 289. 

 C. platyphyilum, Heurck & Muell.-Arg. Obs. Bot. 242 ; Kurz in Journ. 

 As. Soc. Beng. 1874, pt. II, 188. C macrostachyum,'W r\\. Csit H997. 

 C. latifolium, Blume Bijd. 641 ; Miq. 1. c. 609. G. leucantJuim, Heurck 

 & Muell.-Arg. Obs. Bot. 240. C. formosuvi, Griff. Notul. TV, 682, (fide 

 Kurz). 



Malacca ; Derry 386. Andaman Islands ; very common. Not com- 

 mon in the other Provinces. Distrib. British India. 



5. CoMBRETUM CHiNENSE, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 28. A powerful 

 .climber; young branches slender, terete, with sparse minute scales. 

 Leaves opposite, or in whorls of three (tar. ternatum)^ thinly coriaceous, 

 elliptic or elliptic-oblong, sometimes obovate, shortly and abruptly 

 acuminate, the base slightly narrowed; both surfaces glabrous, sparsely 

 squamulose like the young branches and inflorescence, the upper surface 

 of a dark colour when dry, the lower pale-brown (pubescent in var. 

 piihescens) ; main nerves 7 or 8 pairs, spreading, curved, slightly promi- 

 nent on the lower surface, scarcely visible on the upper ; length 3"25-5 

 in., breadth I-5-2-25 in., petiole •15-"4 in. Spikes solitary, axillary, 

 longer than the leaves, many-flowered ; the bracteoles linear, deciduous. 

 Gahjx-tuhe '25 in. long, slender at the base, expanding into a funnel- 

 shaped mouth '15 in. in diam. when fully expanded, with 4 deep erect 

 tiiangular acute scaly lobes, globular when in bud but the apex acute. 

 Petals broadly obovate, clawed, longer than the lobes of the calyx, 

 glabrous. Disc and interior of calyx fulvous-pubescent. Fndt 1-1 '25 

 in. long and '8-1 in. broad, with 4 slightly unequal scarious coriaceous 

 horizontal striate sparsely squamulose wings. Roxb. PI. Ind. II, 230 

 {not of G. Bon); Kurz For. Flora Burma, I, 463; Clarke in Hook, 

 fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 457. ? G. Gn[fthii, Heurck and Muell.-Arg. Obs. 

 Bot. 231. 



Andaman Islands; very common. Perak; Wray 2314, 2743. 

 King's Gollector 4646. 



Var. ternatuvi ; Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. IT, 453 ; leaves 

 often in whorls of three, usually obovate. C. ternatum, Wall. Cat. 4002. 



In the Andamans (doubtful). Distrib. Chittagong. Burma. 



Var. Porterianuni, Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 457 ; leaves 

 elliptic-oblong, acuminate, never obovate, main nerves about 8 pairs. 

 C. Vortcriamnn, Wall. Cat. 4000. 



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