Order 49. Combretaceoe . ill 



* J5. gymnorhiza. A similar tree, with large red solitary flowers. 

 KdnTcra. Also said to be common on the coast. 



Note. Oliver speaks of this genus as having a 12-lobed calyx. 



The name mangrove (Mar. tivar) is popularly applied to many 

 shrubs and trees growing along the shore, as well as to those of this 

 order. (See Lumnitzera, Avicennia, Sonneratia, Exsecaria.) 



3. CARALLIA. 



C. integerrima. A small tree with ovate or obovate polished 

 leaves, flowers very small white in trifid stiff peduncles ; fruit 

 in clusters, red, soft, like cranberries. Fansi, ranfannus. 



The Ghauts, Matheran, &c. 



In the younger trees the leaves are often serrated, in the older 

 quite entire, and otherwise very variable. 



OJRDER 49. COMBRETACE^. 



Trees or shrubs : leaves simple entire without stipules, calyx 

 tubular, segments 4 or 5, petals as many or none, stamens 

 double as many, on the calyx, ovary altogether inferior, fruit 

 a drupe often prominently winged, one-seeded. 



This order contains in genus Terminalia some of the commonest 

 and most useful trees of W. India. In most of the species found 

 here the flowers are small, white or pale coloured, and the fruit in 

 masses much more conspicuous. 



(a) Petals none. 



1. TERMINALIA. Trees, leaves with glands at the back of 

 the leaf, on or just above the petiole, flowers in spikes or ra- 

 cemes, stamens 10, fruit sometimes winged. 



2. CALYCOPTERIS. A diffuse shrub, calyx segments 5, sta- 

 mens 10 in 2 series, fruit ovoid, crowned with the enlarged 

 calyx. 



3. ANOGEilfeus. Flowers in dense round heads, calyx seg- 

 ments 5, stamens as in the last, fruit 2-winged, aggregated 

 into heads. 



(&) Calyx segments and petals 4 or 5. 



4. LUMNITZERA. Salt marsh trees like mangroves, leaves 

 entire, stamens 10 or less, fruit woody, crowned with the calyx. 



5. COMBRETUM. Large shrubs more or less climbing, fruit 

 with 4 or 5 wings, angles, or ridges. 



1. TERMINALIA. 

 Note. The leaves and flowers of the species here given are very 



