CaCOUCia.] LV. COMBRETACEiE (LAWSON). 435 



Petals 5, broadly obknceolate, rounded at the apex, red. Stamens 10. 

 Fruit ovoid, acute at both ends, subpentagonal. 



Upper Guinea. Bagroo river, Mann 1 



Our African species differs from the Brazilian C. coccinea in the greater length of 

 the limb of the calyx ; also the petals in the African species are narrower and longer ; 

 in all other respects they seem identical. 



9. QXTISQUALIS, Linn. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, i. 689. 



Tube of the calyx ovoid, subterete below, not constricted above the 

 ovary, gTeatly prolonged, tubular and very slender, oeciduous ; limb 

 5-partite, lobes small, patent or reflexed. Petals 5, obtuse. Stamens 

 10, short, exserted; anthers ovate. Ovary 1-celled, Style filiform, 

 exserted. Ovules 3-4. Fruit dry, oblong,. acute, with 5 narrow wings, 

 coriaceous. — Climbing shrubs. 



A genus of 2 species. 



1. Q. indica, Linn. ; DC. Prod. iii. 23. Shrub, often scandent, 8-15 

 ft. high ; branches round, puberulous. Leaves opposite or subopppsite, 

 oval or obovate, often snortly acuminate and slightly cordate at the 

 base, very variable in size and shape, glabrous or pubescent. Flowers 

 1J-4 in. long, collected together in short spikes. Petals white, turning 

 red. Bracteate or ebracteate. — Q. ebracteata, Beauv. ; Fl. Owar. i. 

 57, t. 35; DC. I.e. 



Upper Guinea. Camaroon river, Mann ! Abbeokuta, Dr. Irving 1 Old Calahar, 

 Mann! Nupe, Barter! Quorra, T. Vogel! ( 



Lower Guinea. Congo, Consul Burton ! 



The African plants do not seem to differ essentially from those of Asia, in which the 

 bracts are often wanting, while in the African specimens they are sometimes present. 

 The dnly other species, Q. parvifiora, is a native of the parts about Natal. 



10. GYROCARPUS, Jacq. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, i. 689. 



Flowers mostly unisexual. Calyx of the male flowers 4-7-partite 

 with oblong-spathulate obtuse equal or unequal segments. Petals 0. 

 Stamens 4-7 ; anthers broadly oblong, dehiscing by 2 valves. Female 

 flowers with an ovoid calyx-tube, and with 2 lobes of the limb 

 oblong, obtuse, persistent, accrescent. Petals 0. Ovary 1-celled, with 

 a solitary pendulous ovule. Style 0. Fruit a woody drupe crowned 

 with the 2 enlarged lobes of the calyx. 



A genus of 1 species only, which is distributed throughout the. Tropics. 



1. G. Jacquini, Roxb. PI. Coram, i. 2, t. 1. Large tree. Leaves 

 alternate, on long petioles, glabrous or tomentose, very broadly ovate, 

 on young trees often 1 ft. long and deeply 3-lobed, on older trees 

 smaller, entire, or broadly and shortly 3-lobea, more or less acuminate, 

 truncate or cordate at the base. Flowers cymose, very small and 

 numerous j cymes springing from the axils of the upper leaves. Drupe 



