Quisqualis.'] COMBRETACEAE. 469 



A large climbing shrub with white honey-scented flowers 

 and creain-coloured conspicuous floral leaves, a troublesome 

 forest climber, difficult to destroy. Yerii. Ur. Atundi ; Tel. 

 Arikota. 



2. COMBRETUM OVALIFOLIUM, Roxb.; F. B. I. ii. 458 ; W. & A. 

 317. 



N". Circars, Deccan and Carnatic, in deciduous forest, up 

 to 2,000 ft.; W. Coast, in S. Canara. 



A large climbing shrub with large panicles of small flowers 

 and rather small fruit. The branches are used for cattle- 

 ropes. Yern. Tarn. Yerragay. 



3. COMBRETUM EXTENSUM, Roxb.; F. B. I. ii. 458. C. Wiylitia- 

 num, Wall.; W. & A. 317 ; Wt. Ic, t. 227. 



W. Coast, in S. Canara (Wight). 



A large climbing shrub with large leaves and fruit and 



flowers in panicles of rather dense spikes. 



6. Quisqualis, Linn. 



Large straggling or climbing shrubs. Leaves opposite, oblong 

 or obovate, entire. Flowers in short axillary or terminal spikes, 

 white or red ; bracteoles small. Calyx-tube produced above the 

 ovary; limb 5-lobed. Petals 5. Stamens 10, short. ' Ovary 1- 

 celled ; ovules 3-4, pendulous ; style filiform, somewhat adiiate 

 to the calyx-tube; stigma subcapitate. Fruit dry, coriaceous, 

 5-angled or 5-winged. Seed 1 ; cotyledons not convolute. 



QUISQUALIS MALABARICA, Bedd. Ic. t. 155 ; F. B. I. ii. 460. 

 \Y. Ghats, Carcoor Ghat in Wynaad (Beddonie) at 1,500 ft. ; 

 Travancore forests at 300 ft. (Bourdillon). 

 A large climbing shrub with calyx-tube about "5 in. long, 

 pink petals, elliptic-ovate or -lanceolate acuminate leaves 

 reaching 5 in. in length, the petioles hardening as rigid 

 spines, and a Combret-u w-like 5-winged fruit about 1 in. long. 

 Quisqualis indica, Linn., is a large straggling or climbing shrub 

 from the Malay Archipelago, with showy long-tubed flowers 

 changing colour from white to orange and red, commonly culti- 

 vated in gardens in the plains. 



