468 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Lumnitzera. 



LUMNITZERA RACEMOSA, Willd.; F. B. I. ii. 452; W. & A. 316. 



E. and W. Coasts, in mangrove swamps. 



An evergreen tree of shrubby growth with rather small 

 leaves and white flowers. Bark thick, brown, rough ; wood 

 hard, greyish-brown with a darker heartwood, used for posts 

 and as fuel. Yern. Tel. Kadivi, Thandara; Tarn. Tipparathai. 



5. Combretum, Linn. 



Shrubs, usually straggling or climbing. Leaves entire, opposite, 

 petiolate, sometimes alternate or ternate. Flowers polygamo- 

 dioecious, spicate, the spikes often panicled ; bracteoles small. 

 Calyx-tube constricted above the ovary ; limb campanulate or 

 funnel-shaped ; lobes 4-5. Petals as many as the calyx-lobes and 

 inserted between them, sometimes 0. Stamens twice as many as 

 the calyx-lobes, in 2 series ; filaments slender ; anthers small, 

 didymous. Ovary inferior, 1-celled; ovules 2-5, pendulous; style 

 subulate ; stigma simple. Fruit dry, usually indehiscent, with 5 

 ridges or wings, the wings chartaceous. Seed usually solitary ; 

 testa membranous, protruded into the angles of the wings ;. 

 cotyledons plicate, rarely convolute ; radicle superior. 



Flowers small, with campanulate calyx-limb and 5 calyx-lobes and 

 petals, bracteoles linear, as long as flowers ; leaves oblong, abruptly 

 acuminate, up to 6 in. long, 2 in. broad, the transverse nervules many, 

 horizontal, floral leaves cream-white ; fruit with 5 papery wings, 



oblong, 1 in. long 1. decandrum. 



Flowers with 4 calyx-lobes and petals, bracteoles minute ; leaves all 

 green, transverse nervules of leaves irregular, branching : 



Calyx-tube above the ovary widely campanulate ; leaves ovate to 

 lanceolate, often nearly orbicular, pale and thin when dry, variable 

 in size ; fruit with 4 papery wings, nearly globose in outline, '75 in. 



in diam 2. ovalifoUum. 



Calyx-tube above the ovary funnel-shaped ; leaves ovate to nearly 

 orbicular with a short abrupt acumination, up to 5 in. long, 4 in. 

 broad, coriaceous, greenish and shining when dry ; fruit with 4 

 papery striate wings, globose in outline, 1'5 in. in diam. 



3. extensum. 



1. COMBRETUM DECANDRUM, Boxb. Cor. PI. t. 59 ; F. B. I. ii. 

 452. Poivrea Roxburyhii,DC.', W. & A. 317. 

 N". Circars, from Ganjam to Godavari, abundant in open 

 forest land. 



