Combretum.'] LVIII. COMBRETACE^. (C. B. Clarke.) 459 



scarcely pubescent, calyx-teeth triangular acuminate reflexed, buds ovate very 

 acute. 



MALACCA, Maingay No. 1681. DISTRIB. Sumatra. 



Leaves 3-5 in., punctulate on both surfaces; petiole in. Calyx with a ring of 

 hairs at its base within but not densely filled with long hair. Fruit 1 in. and nearly 

 as broad, brown, nearly glabrous. This species so exactly coincides with C. extensum 

 in its flowers and fruits that it may be doubted whether it is specifically distinct. 

 The leaves appear smaller and thinner, and the dense heads of flowers at the ends of 

 the branches of a large panicle give it a very different aspect. 



EXCLUDED AKD DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



COMBRETUM sp. 2. Griff. Notul. iv. 682 is probably one of the large Termi- 

 nalias. 



COMBRETUM (Sect. Poivrea) SEMI-ADNATUM, Heurck $ Muell. Arg. Obs. Bot. 244 ; 

 leaves ternate short-petioled elliptic acute at first simply pubeiulous, racemes axil- 

 lary long-peduncled dense, flowers long pedicelled, bracteoles adnate to the pedicels 

 for half their length. " In the East Indies." This must be very distinct from all 

 the known Indian species by its long-stalked ovary ; otherwise it might be C. tri- 

 foliatum. 



COMBRETUM OVALE, Br. See under 2. pile 



6. QUISQUAZ.IS, Linn. 



Rambling subscandent -large shrubs. Leaves opposite, oblong or obovate, 

 acuminate, entire. Floivers in short spikes, axillary and terminal, white or red. 

 Calyx-tiibe prolonged long and slender above the ovary, deciduous ; limb 5-fid. 

 Petals 5. Stamens 10, short. Ovary 1-celled ; style filiform, somewhat adherent 

 tp the calyx-tube, stigma subcapitate ; ovules 3-4, pendulous from the apex of 

 the cell. Fruit dry, coriaceous, 5-angled or 6-winged, subindehiscent. Seed 1, 

 cotyledons (occasionally 3, Kurz) not convolute. DISTRIB. Species 4, tropical ; 

 3 Indian, 1 African. 



Known from Combretum Sect. Poivrea by the elongate calyx-tube, and from Com- 

 bretum Sect. Quisqualoides by the 5-merous flowers and the fruit. 



1. Q. indica, Linn. Sp. PI. 556; calyx-tube above the ovary l|-2^ in., 

 calyx-teeth triangular acute not acuminate, fruit with very sharp angles scarcely 

 winged. Low. FL Cochinch. 336 ; Lamk. 111. t. 357 ; DC. Prodr. iii. 23 ; 

 Roxb. FL Ind. ii. 427 ; Wall. Cat. 4010 ; Wight 111. t. 92 ; W. $ A. Prodr. 318; 

 Miq. FL Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 610 ; Brandts For. FL 220. Q. villosa, Roxb. FL 

 Ind. ii. 426; Spreng. Syst. ii. 331; DC. Prodr. iii. 23. Q. glabra, Burm. FL 

 Ind. t. 28. Q. pubescens, Burm. FL Ind. t. 35. Q. ebracteata, Beauv. FL 

 Owar. t. 35. Q. Loureiri, G. Don Gen. Syst. ii. 667. Q. sinensis, Lindl. in 

 Bot. Reg. N.S. vol. xxx. t. 15. Q. longiflora, Presl Epimel. 216. Quisqualis sp., 

 Griff. Notul. iv. 683. Rumph. Herb. Amboin. v. t. 38. 



Throughout INDIA, alt. 0-1000 ft., cultivated: wild probably in the TRANSGANGE- 

 TIC PENINSULA. DISTRIB. Cultivated generally in the tropics, wild in Malaya. 



Leaves 4 in., nearly glabrous or in var. villosa shortly pubescent beneath ; petiole 

 in., rusty villous as are the innovations. Spikes somewhat dense ; bracteoles 

 in,, usually lanceolate, but variable, generally subpersistent. Petals rose or 

 scarlet, oblong or nearly round. Fruit f-l by scarcely in., glabrous, black, very 

 acute at the top. 



