Combretum.'] LVIII. COMBRETACEJI. (C. B. Clarke.) 455 



It is evidently allied to C. tetralophum ; the leaves on Mr. Kurz' specimen are 

 very unlike those of C. tetralophum, but in many Combretums while the typical leaves 

 are acute lanceolate there may be found on the same shrub lower branches with obtuse 

 obovate leaves. Kurz however says that the calyx-tube in C. tetragonocarpum is 

 " short oval," whereas in C. tetralophum it is " elongate nearly filiform," so that the 

 two species must be distinct. He has placed this species in his section with 10 sta- 

 mens and 5-merous flowers : this it is presumed is a slip. 



8. C. acuminatum, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 28, Fl Ind. ii. 228; leaves 

 opposite ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate adult pubescent or nearly glabrous be- 

 neath, racemes scarcely divided axillary and also in sparingly leafy terminal 

 panicles scaly and pubescent, calyx scarcely constricted above the ovary then 

 campanulate, fruit narrowly oblong with four thick bluntish ridges. Wall. Cat. 

 3998. 0. costatum, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 28 and Fl. Ind. ii. 227 ; Kurz For. Fl. 

 Brit. Burma i. 465. 0. stenopetalum, fleurck $ Muell. Arg. Obs. Bot. 225. 

 0. sarcopterum, Thwaites Enum. 415. 0. neurophyllum ? Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. 

 pt. i. 608 ex descript. 



TRANSGANGETIC PENINSULA from ASSAM to SINGAPORE, alt. 0-1000 ft., plentiful. 

 CEYLON; Thwaites, Mrs. Walker. MADRAS PENINSULA? Wight No. 1014 (Wight's 

 specimen is typical acuminatum but may have come from Ceylon). DISTRIB. Malaya 

 to the Philippines. 



A large scandent shrub. Leaves often 6-8 in., cordate or acute at the base, some- 

 what densely glandular- punctate beneath, the glands often prominent or becoming 

 scales ; petiole often very short, rarely exceeding | in. Bracteoles minute, soon decidu- 

 ous. Young ovary and calyx-tube scaly, hardly pubescent. Ca^avlimb campanulate, 

 grooved or fluted (at least in the dried specimens), teeth erect short triangular. Petals 

 narrow, small. Disc and base of calyx-tube with short hair or nearly glabrous. Fruit 

 1-2 in. about ^ as broad as long, puberulous brown. In this species, and in some 

 others, in the hermaphrodite flowers before the calyx expands a very small hole 

 appears at the top through which the style is long protruded ; subsequently the calyx 

 opens and the stamens are long extruded. 



The examples of C. acuminatum, Eoxb. at Kew are abundant, but the name C. 

 costatum Eoxb. does not occur in the Kew Herbarium nor is the fruit described by 

 Eoxb. It is clear that Mr. Kurz understands by C. costatum, Eoxb. the plant named 

 C. acuminatum, Eoxb. at Kew. It is almost certain that the two species of Koxburgh 

 are but one. The two names are of one date, and in this list the name taken up by 

 Wallich and subsequent Indian botanists is preferred to the name taken up by Mr. 

 Kurz, especially as there is no doubt at all what Eoxburgh's C. acuminatum was, 

 while a doubt may be still raised about his C. costatum. 



SECT. III. XSu comb re turn. Flowers 4-nierous. Fruit with 4 papery 

 wings. Calyx not long-tubular-campanulate above the constricted portion. 



t Surface of the fruit between the wings covered densely with lanceolate-linear 

 scales -5 in. (Subsection Flagrocarpece], 



9. C. flagrocarpum, Herb. Calc. ; leaves opposite elliptic- or ovate- 

 lanceolate adult pubescent and prominently glandular-punctate beneath, ra- 

 cemes rusty-pubescent Dimple axillary and also crowded towards the ends of 

 the branches, calyx funnel-shaped above the ovary glandular and somewhat 

 pubescent without. Pentaptera undulata, Wall. Cat. 3984 (not Combretum 

 undulatum, Wall.). Combretum sp. No. 20, Herb. Hk.f. fy T. 0. Wallichii, 

 Kurz For. Fl. Brit. Burma i. 465 not of DC. 



NORTHERN and EASTERN BENGAL, ascending the hills to 5000 ft. alt. ; very com- 

 mon, extending to Chittagong. DISTRIB. Upper Burma. 



