452 LVIII. COMBRETACE!. (C. B. Clarke.) [Lumnitzera. 



1. Xi. coccinea, W. fy A. Prodr. 316; racemes dense terminal some- 

 times 2 or 3 forming a small corymb, petals scarlet \ in. Miq. FL Ind. Bat. i. 

 pt. i. p. 606. L. littorea, Voigt. ; Kurz For. FL Brit. Burma, i. 469. L. pen- 

 tandra, Griff. Notul. iv. 684, and Ic. PL Asiat. t. 644. Pyrranthus littoreus, 

 Jack. Mai. Misc. ii. 57; Wall. Cat. 4018. 



MEBGTJI; Griffith. NICOBABS ; Kurz. MALACCA; Maingay, Griffith. DISTBIB. 

 Malaya, North Australia, Polynesia. 



A small tree 20-40 ft. high. Leaves 2-3 in. Stamens 5-10, usually 7 ; twice- 

 as long as the petals, filaments crimson. 



2. Xi. racemosa, Wittd. ; DC. Prodr. iii. 22 ; racemes axillary some- 

 what dense in flower 2-4 in. long in fruit, petals white very small. W. fy A. 

 Prodr. 316 ; Miq. FL Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 606 ; Dah $ Gibs. Bomb. FL 90 ; 

 Tulasne in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. iv. vol. vi. p. 103 ; Bedd. FL Sylv. Anal. Gen. 

 PL xxi. ; Brand. For. FL 221; Kurz For. FL Brit. Burma i. 468. Pyrranthus 

 albus, Wall. Cat. 4019. Petaloma alternifolia, Roxb. FL Ind. ii. 372. Bru- 

 guiera nmdagascariensis, DC. Prodr. iii. 23. Rheede Hort. Mai. vi. t. 37. 



On the coasts of INDIA, CEYLON and the TEANSGANGETIC PENINSULA as on the 

 ANDAMANS and NICOBAES (Kurz) ; general. DISTEIB. Tropical Africa, Malaya, North 

 Australia and Polynesia, in the Mangrove swamps. 



A small tree 20-40 ft. high. Leaves usually 2-3 in. sometimes only 1 in. Stamens 

 sometimes 5, sometimes 10 (always 10 Kurz) about as long as the petals, filaments 

 white. Racemes in fruit ascending. 



5. COIVXBRETUHX, Linn. 



Large shrubs (except C. nanum) with long pendent or scandent branches, 

 without spines (except C. spinescens). Leaves entire, petioled, opposite or more 

 seldom alternate or ternate. Flowers polygamo-dieecious, often in panicled 

 spikes or racemes ; bracteoles small. Calyx-i\^& constricted above the ovary, 

 shortly or long produced, urceolate, funnel-shaped or tubular ; limb 4-5-lobed, 

 deciduous. Petals as many as the calyx-lobes (0 in C. apetalum) placed on the 

 calyx-limb. Stamens twice as many as the petals, inserted in two series with 

 them. Ovary inferior, 1-celled ; style 1, subulate, simple ; ovules 2-5, pendent 

 from the top of the cell. Fruit with 4^5 wings angles or ridges, dry, generally 

 indehiscent. Seed 1 ; cotyledons plaited or flat, in a few species convoluted. 

 DISTEIB. Species 120, common in the tropics of America, Africa, and Asia ;, 

 also in South Africa, but not in Australia or Polynesia. 



SECT. I. Poivrea. Flowers 5-merous. Fruit 5-winged or 5-ridged. 

 * Fruit with 5 membranous wings. 



1. C. decandrum, Roxb. Cor. PL t. 59 ; leaves oblong suddenly acumi- 

 nate nearly glabrous on both surfaces when adult, panicles large terminal, young 

 ovary densely villose, calyx hardly constricted above the ovary urceolate co- 

 vered with short hairs within and without. Roxb. Hort. Beng. 28 and FL Ind. 

 ii. 232; G. Don in Trans. Linn. Soc. xv. 437 ; Wall. Cat. 4009; Brand. For. 

 FL 221 ; Kurz For. FL Brit. Burma i. 460. 0. Roxburghii, Spreng. Syst. ii, 

 331. Poivrea Roxburghii, DC. Prodr. iii. 18; W. $ A. Prodr. 317. Pen- 

 taptera Roxburghii, Tulasne in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. iv. vol. vi. 84. 



BENGAL, abundant, alt. 0-3000 ft. North DEC CAN plateau very common, less 

 common South. NOETH WEST PEOVINCES nearly to the Punjab. TENASSEKIM and 

 the ANDAMANS. 



