Combretum.'] LVIII. COMBRETACE^:. (C. B. Clarke.) 453 



An exceedingly large shrub with many branches pendent and subscandent, con- 

 spicuous in flower by the floral leaves (bracts) becoming cream-white. Leaves oppo- 

 site, 4-5 in., somewhat hairy when young, when old glabrous or rarely with tufts of 

 hairs in the axils of the nerves beneath ; petiole ^ in. Bacemes numerous, very villous, 

 in large terminal quasi-panicles, the leaves thereon 2-3 in , becoming petaloid at the 

 time of flowering ; bracteoles linear, in., somewhat persistent. Ovary sessile. Calyx 

 segments lanceolate-subulate, suberect. Petals oblong, glabrous, hardly exceeding the 

 calyx or twice as long as the calyx (Kurz). Disc covered with short hairs. Fruit 

 f-l in., oblong or elliptic, subquadrate, nearly smooth. 



2. C. pilosum, Roxb. Hort. Seng. 28, Fl Ind. ii. 231 ; leaves oblong- 

 lanceolate adult more or less hairy beneath, panicles terminal the racemes 

 densely fulvous-villous and congested, young ovary fulvous-villous, calyx shortly 

 constricted above the ovary then funnel-shaped hairv within and without. 

 O. Don in Trans. Linn. Soc. xv. 434; Wall. Cat. 4005; Kurz For. FL Brit. 

 Burma i. 462. C. Isetum and spinescens, Wall. Cat. 4004, 4006. C. insigne, 

 Heurck fy Muell. Arg. Obs. Bot. 247 {from description only). 



EAST BENGAL ; alt. 0-1000 ft., from SILHET to MEBGUI frequent. 



A large scandent shrub without thorns, the innovations densely rusty- villous. 

 Leaves opposite, 4-8 in., usually when adult with some rusty hair at least on the 

 lower surface (but some of Griffith's specimens are quite glabrous) ; petiole ^-\ in. 

 Bracteoles \ in., narrow-lanceolate, somewhat persistent. Ovary sessile. Calyx-tube 

 upwards 5-fluted, the segments triangular acute erect. Petals narrow-obovate, far 

 exceeding the calyx, with rusty silky hairs on their backs. Disc low in the funnel of 

 the calyx with short hair. Fruit 1 in., elliptic or circular, usually pubescent, some- 

 times glabrous. 



VAE. 2. spinescens; with stout spines at the base of the branchlets, otherwise 

 does not differ. Irrawaddy bank; Watt. Cat. 4006. Cachar, Keenan. 



Here perhaps belongs the very doubtful species described by Kurz in Forest 

 Fl. Brit. Burma, i. 462 under the name C. ovale, R. Br., which is said to differ from 

 C. pilosum by having the innovations puberulous instead of pubescent. The fruit is 

 unknown. It can hardly be C. ovale, E. Br. which considerably differs as see under 

 C. aculeatum, Vent, in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 423. 



3. C. apetalum, Wall. Cat. 3990 ; leaves oblong-lanceolate adult nearly 

 glabrous, panicles terminal large much divided the ultimate racemes long 

 slender distant, young ovary densely pubescent almost tomentose, calyx-tube 

 hardly constricted above the ovary then urceolate pubescent within and with- 

 out. Kurz For. Fl. Brit. Burma i, 460. 0. virgatum, Wall. Cat. 3992. 



PEGTJ ; Wallich, Maclelland, Kurz. DISTBIB. Burma. 



A scandent shrub or (ex Kurz) a weak tree 15-20 ft. high. Leaves 1-4 in., sub- 

 opposite, the petiole \-\ in., and midrib beneath usually grey puberulous, sometimes 

 long fulvous hair near the base of the main nerves beneath. Bacemes long, undu- 

 lating, very narrow, the flowers though numerous being very small ; bracteoles in., 

 linear, exceeding the young ovaries. Ovary sessile. Calyx-teeth lanceolate, erect. 

 Petals 0. Disc covered by short hairs. Fruit f in., elliptic, nearly circular, glabrous, 

 surface between the wings covered with close sessile circular glands. 



4. C. pyrifolium, Kurz For. Fl. Brit. Burma i. 464 ; leaves small ovate 

 to broad-oblong and suborbicular glabrous, spikes puberulous in slender axil- 

 lary or short terminal panicles, fruits 5- or occasionally 4-winged. Pentaptera 

 pyrifolia, Watt. Cat. 3985. 



PEGTT; Kurz. DISTRIB. Burma. 



A scandent shrub, with the habit of Comhretum ovalifolium, the innovations rusty 

 puberulous. Leaves 1^-2 in., opposite or alternate, punctate on the upper surface, 



