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Pexang. 

 This variety does not appear to have been collected since Wallich's time. 1 

 mncU doubt whether it is worth keeping up even as a variety. 



Var, pnbescensj King. Leaves pubescent in the under surface. 

 Pekak ; King^s Collector 889. 



6. CoMBRETUM SQUAMOSUM, Roxb. Fl. Ind. Ill, 23] . A large creeper ; 

 young branches slender, cylindric, covered (like almost all other parts of 

 the plant) with scales with broad pale margins. Leaves opposite, thinly 

 coriaceous, broadly elliptic or elliptic-rotund, rarely ovate-lanceolate, 

 shortly and abruptly acuminate ; the base rounded, rarely sub-cuneate ; 

 both surfaces dull when dry and scaly, but without hairs ; length 3*25- 

 5*5 in., breadth 2"25-4'5 in. ; petiole •3-4 in., scaly. Spikes axillaiy or 

 terminal, solitary or in panicles, shorter than the leaves, few-bi-anched. 

 Flowers 16 in. in diam. at the mouth. Calyx-tube shortly constricted 

 above the 4-angled ovary ; the mouth cupular, with 4 broadly triangular 

 teeth. Petals small, obovate. Disc and fundus of mouth of calyx 

 fulvous-villose. Fridt 'Vo-l'S in. long and nearly as broad (including 

 the wings), with 4 wide thin membranous wings, squamose at the 

 bottom of the deep grooves between the wings. Wall. Cat. 3.987 ; Miq. 

 FI. Ind. Bat. I, pt. I, 607 ; G. Don in Trans. Linn. Soc. XV, 438 {in- 

 accurate as to the floral symmetry); W. & A. Prodr. 317; Kiirz For. 

 Fl. Brit. Burma I, 463 ; Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 456. 

 C. lepidotuni, Presl Bemerk. 142 {see Kurz in Flora 1871, p. 289). 

 G. Maluloea, Wall. Cat. 3991. 



Malacca; Maingay 648. Andaman Islands. Perak; King's Col- 

 lector 5083. Penang ; Wallich, King's Collector 1335, Ciirtis 258. 



A species easily recognised by being everywhere covered with scales. Some of 

 the Penang specimens have ovate-elliptic leaves ; otherwise they do not differ from 

 specimens from other places. 



7. CoMBRETUM Wrayi, King n. spec. Young branches slender, 

 striate when dry, glabrous but slightly scaly. Leaves opposite, coria- 

 ceous, narrowly elliptic, subacute oi' very shortly and bluntly acuminate, 

 the base rounded ; both surfaces reticulate, the upper glabrous and 

 shining ; the lower dull, glabrous elsewhere, but with some coarse hairs 

 along the sides of the midrib near its base ; main nerves 6 or 7 pairs, 

 jvscending, curved, slightly prominent beneath ; length 2-5-3-5 in., breadth 

 i*15-l"5 in.; petiole •35-*4 in., rather rough when dry, those in the 

 upper part of the stem and in the axils of which the spikes arise much 

 smaller. Spikes axillary, solitary, about 1 in. long, the peduncles gla- 

 brous, the floriferous part pubescent and scaly. Floivers few, in clusters 

 of 2 or 3. Calyx-tube '15 in. long, shortly constricted above the ovary, 

 the mouth campanulate and dopply cut into 4 triangular acute erect 



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