648 MERRILL. 



Lumnitzera cnccinea W. & A. Prodr. 1 (1S:U) 31G; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 1' 

 (1856) 006; Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 2 (1878) 452; F.-Vill. Nov. App. 

 (1880) 80; Vid. Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. (1886) 128; King, in .Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 

 66^ (1897) 334. 



Pcialoma coccinca Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 345, ed. 2 (1845) 240, ed. 3. 2: 83. 



Luzon, Province of Cagayan, For. Bur. 70S3 Klenime: Province of Zaniltales, 

 Merrill 2082, For. Bur. 58SS Curran, Bur. Sci. .^72.2 Ramos: Province of Tayabas, 

 Merrill 2J,83, 2065, For. Bur. 1023J,, 10386, 10250 Curran, (Principe) Merrill 

 11^6: Province of Sorsogon, For. liur. 10596 Curran. Mi.ndoro, Merrill 2395, 

 For. Bur. 5Jf27, 9807, 9892 Merritt. CuLiON, Merrill 583. Palawan, Bur. Sci. 

 266 Bermejos, For. Bur. 3511 Curran, Bur. Sci. 614 Foxicorlhy. Masrate, For. 

 Bur. 12669 Rosenbluth, For. Bur. lOOJf Clark. Negros, For. Bur. 15013 Diehl, For. 

 Bur. 5603 Everett. Dinagat, Ahtrn J/Jft. Basilan, For. Bur. J/020 Hutchinson. 

 Mindanao. Province of Surigao, Ahem 501; District of Davao, Copeland 1323; 

 District of Zamboanga, For. Bur. 93'i5, 9Ji36 Whitford c£- nutchinson. 



Native names: Cariftirog (Negrito, Cagayan) ; Lebaio, Pasasic, Libato, Agnaya, 

 Aguia, Calapini, Cula-si, Anilay, Colisiman (Tag.) ; Tabao, Duloc-dulov, Buloc- 

 buloc, Saga-sa, Maoro (Vis.); Panting-panting (Moro). 



In mangroves and beach forests throughout the Philippines, abundant. India 

 to the Malay Peninsula and Archipelago to New Guinea, tropical Australia, and 

 Polynesia. Lumnitzera pediccUuta Presl of the Marianne and Marshall Islands 

 is doubtfully distinct. 



3. COMBRETUM Linn. 



Calyx-tube less than 3 mm long. 



All parts glabrous or nearly so 1. C- acuminatum 



Inflorescence and cah-x-tubes very densely lepidote 2. C. squamosum 



Calyx-tube elongated, at least 5 mm long. 



Flowers in elongated spikes, the calyx-tubes only slightly puberulent. 



3. C. extensum 



Flowers densely arranged at the ends of the panicle-branches, the calyx-tubes 



rather densely puhcnileiit 4. C. confusum 



1. Combretum acuminatum Roxb. Hort. Beng. (1814) 28, Fl. Ind. 2 (1832) 

 228; Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 2 (1878) 455; Vidal Phan. Cuming. Philip. 

 (1885) 112, Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. ilSSti) 128; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1S80) 81. 



SA^rAR, Cuming 1681. 



The range given for thi-^ species by Clarke, /. c, is from the Transgangetic 

 Peninsula from Assam to Singapore, Ceylon, ^Madras Peninsula?, JIalaya to the 

 Philippines, but he may have included more llian tyjjical Combretum acuminatum 

 Roxb. in his conception of the species. King ' do:'S not include the species in his 

 "Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula" as occurring in the area covered 

 by that work, nor does lie mention it in his discussions of the accepted species. 

 As I have only a fragment of Cuming's specimen, and no Indian material for 

 comparison, I am constraineil to !ieeei)t Claiki''s identification of Cuming's specimen 

 for tlip present. 'I'lie Pliilip])iiie specimen seems, however, to differ from Rox- 

 burgh's species, as described, in being quite glal)rous. 



As to the name of the species, Kuiz' accepts Cmutix I mn innini n „i IJi.xli.. whicli 

 lias page priority ftver C aruminatinn Roxb. 



'.b.urn. As. Soc. Beng. 66= (1807) 3.35-341. 

 "Forest Flora of Britisli Burma 1 (1877) 4t»5. 



