Terminalia.'] COMBRETACEAE. 461 



Family LXII. COMBRETACEAE. 



Trees or shrubs, often climbing. Leaves alternate subopposite 

 or opposite, sometimes ternate, entire ; stipules 0. Flowers her- 

 maphrodite, rarely unisexual or polygamous, in spikes or racemes 

 often panicled ; bracteolate. Calyx-tube adiiate to the ovary and 

 produced above it, the limb 4-o-lobed, the lobes valvate. Petals 

 4-5 or 0, inserted on the calyx, alternate with its lobes. Stamens 

 as many as, or twice as many as the calyx-lobes, in 2 series ; 

 filaments filiform or subulate ; anthers usually didynious. Ovary 

 inferior, 1-celled, usually crowned with a lobed disk ; ovules 

 usually 2-3, sometimes more ; style subulate ; stigma simple. 

 Fruit coriaceous or drupaceous, generally mdehiscent, angular or 

 winged, sometimes crowned by the persistent calyx. Seed I ; 

 albumen ; cotyledons convolute plicate or plano-convex. 



Petals : 



Calyx-limb deciduous ; erect trees or shrubs : 



Flowers in spikes or racemes 1. Terminalia. 



Flowers in capitate heads 2. Anogeissus. 



Calyx-limb accrescent in fruit; straggling shrubs... 3. Calycopteris. 

 Petals 4-5: 



Calyx-limb persistent ; leaves alternate ; trees or shrubs 



4. Lumnitzera. 

 Calyx-limb deciduous ; leaves opposite ; climbers : 



Calyx-tube not or only shortly produced beyond the ovary 



5, Combretum. 

 Calyx-tube produced more than "5 in. beyond the ovary 



6. Quisqualis. 



1. Terminalia, Linn. 



Trees. Leaves alternate or subopposite, entire or slightly 

 crenulate, often with glands on the petiole or on the lower part 

 of the midrib beneath; stipules 0. Flowers small, green or 

 white, in spikes, the spikes solitary or in panicles ; hermaphrodite 

 or sometimes the upper flowers of the spike <$ , the lower <$ ; 

 bracteoles small, usually soon deciduous. Cafy^-tube ovoid or 

 cylindric, constricted above the ovary ; limb carnpanulate with 

 5 triangular valvate lobes. Petals 0. Stamens 10 in 2 series, the 

 5 upper alternate with the calyx lobes, the 5 lower opposite them ; 

 filaments subulate, exserted ; anthers small. Disk inside the 



