Combretum.~\ LVIII. COMBRETACEJ:. (C. B. Clarke.) 457 



MOULMEIN, Wallich, TENASSERIM, Heifer No. 2181, Kew Distrib. 



Whole plant covered with sessile flat circular scales, otherwise glabrous or nearly 

 so. Branchlets quadrangular. Leaves 3-4 by 1 in. Fruit -f in. Hardly dis- 

 tinguishable from C. squamosum Koxb. but by the small flowers and the leaves 

 attenuated at the base. C. Van Heurckii, Muell. in HeurcJe $ Muell. Arg. Obs. Bot. 

 227, may as far as the description goes be this plant but the fruit is not described. 

 Griffith's No. 725 quoted cannot be found at Kew. 



13. C. dasystachyum, Kurz Journ. As. Soc. Seng. 1874, pt. ii. 187 ; 

 leaves opposite and often ternate elliptic- or obovate-oblong acuminate densely 

 pubescent on the nerves beneath, racemes rarely divided axillary solitary and 

 subterminal 2-4 together, young ovary (and calyx without) glandular and 

 minutely pubescent, calyx-tube distinctly constricted above the ovary then 

 funnel-shaped, fruit large. 



PEGU ; Kurz. CHITTAGONG ; Hk. f. $ Th. ASSAM ; Jenkins. CACHAR ; Keenan. 



A scandent shrub, the innovations rusty -pubescent or villous. Leaves 5-10 in., 

 lower surface puberulo-punctate, upper punctate-scabrous ; petiole -f in., densely 

 villous. Racemes in flower rusty-villous ; bracteoles in., linear. Calyx-teeth tri- 

 angular, acute, erect. Petals narrow obovate, small. Disc and base of calyx densely 

 covered with long fulvous hair. Fruit 1% by 1 in., with scattered small round glands, 

 otherwise glabrous. 



14. C. chinense, Eoxb. Hort. Seng. 28, Fl Ind. ii. 230, not of G. 

 Don ; leaves opposite or ternate obovate or lanceolate adult glabrous, racemes 

 undivided solitary axillary and approximated subterminal, young ovary (and 

 calyx without) glandular and- minutely pubescent, calyx-tube distinctly con- 

 stricted above the ovary then funnel-shaped, fruit f-1 in. often bright red 

 when ripe. Kurz For. Fl. JBrit. Surma i. 463. 0. Griffithii, Huerck $ Muell. 

 Arg. Obs. Sot. 23I,Jide Kurz. 



TRANSGANGETIC PENINSULA from ASSAM to TENASSERIM and PENANG; alt. 0-1000 

 ft. frequent. DISTRIB. China, according' to Roxburgh. 



A scandent shrub, nearly glabrous. Leaves 3-5 in,, punctulate on both surfaces, 

 the points often obscure in age ; petiole ^5- in. Calyx-teeth triangular, erect. Petals 

 narrow-obovate, small. Disc and base of calyx within densely covered with long 

 fulvous hair. Fruit about as broad as high, subglabrous. There is no example of 

 C. chinense Eoxb. at Kew ; Mr. Kurz has applied that name to var. ternatum, and 

 the description fits well. 



VAR. ternatum, Wall. Cat. 4002 (sp.) ; leaves often 3-nate obovate obtuse usually 

 narrowed into the petiole, uppermost sometimes lanceolate. 



VAR. 2. Porterianum, Wall. Cat. 4000 (sp.) ; leaves never 3-nate lanceolate or 

 oblong distinctly acuminate. 



15. C. nanuxn, Ham. in Don Prodr. 219 ; leaves opposite or all alter- 

 nate from round obovate to lanceolate glabrous, racemes undivided subter- 

 minal generally few with one greatly elongated, young ovary and calyx without 

 glabrous sparsely glandular punctulate, calyx-tube constricted above the ovary 

 then funnel-shaped, fruit 1^ by 1 in. or somewhat smaller puberulous or sub- 

 glabrous. DC. Prodr. iii. 21 ; G. Don in Trans. Linn. Soc. xv. 429 ; Wall. Cat. 

 3994. Srand. For. FL 221. 



HIMALAYA TERAI from SIKKIM to the PUNJAB ; Wallich, Royle, Edgeworth, Vicary, 

 Strachey $ Winterbotlom, J. D. H. 



A decumbent low shrub, burnt down annually by the forest fires ; branches 

 6-18 in., glabrous, the racemes minutely pubescent. Leaves typically 4 by 3^- in., 

 but often much smaller and narrower, shining, coriaceous, with scattered points on 



