220 XXXV. RHIZOPHOKE^l. [Carallic 



A large tree, with entire, elliptic obovate or oblong leaves. Flowers 

 6-8-merous, nearly sessile in capitate cymes ; petals white, orbicular, 

 deeply laciniate, with lanceolate segments. 



Common in evergreen forests of South India, Burma, Bengal, and the Eastern 

 Himalaya. On the western coast it extends to the latitude of Bombay, and 

 will probably be found in the range of this Flora either on the Satpura hills or 

 in the Gorakhpur, Oudh, or Kamaon forests. Found also in South China, 

 the Philippine Islands and tropical Australia. Timber reddish brown, rather 

 brittle, but very ornamental, with broad medullary rays, which show on a ver- 

 tical section like undulating, broad irregular bands, giving the wood a beautiful 

 mottled appearance. Polishes well. 



C. lucida, Roxb. Cor. PI. t 211 j Fl. Ind. ii. 481 ; Wight Ic. t. 605, is doubt- 

 fully referred to G. lancecefolia, Roxb. by Bentham, 1. c. 75. In Wall. cat. 4880 

 G. lucida is quoted from Kamaon. 



Order XXXVI. COMBRETACE^J. 



Trees or shrubs, with simple, petiolate, entire leaves, without stipules. 

 Flowers bracteate, bisexual, rarely polygamous. Calyx-tube adnate to the 

 ovary ; limb 4-5 cleft, generally campanulate with valvate segments. 

 Petals none, or 4-5. Stamens as many as calyx-segments, or twice the 

 number, inserted on the limb or inside the calyx. Ovary wholly adnate 

 to calyx-tube, 1 -celled; style simple, filiform. Fruit often winged or 

 angled, 1-celled or 1-seeded. Seed pendulous, with a coriaceous or mem- 

 branous testa, without albumen. Embryo straight, with a small superior 

 radicle, and fleshy, oily, convolute, plicate, or contortuplicate cotyledons. 

 Gen. PL i. 683 ; Eoyle 111. 209 ; Wight 111. i. 211. 

 Flowers in spikes or racemes. 



Climbing shrubs or undershrubs, with opposite leaves . 1. Combretum. 



Trees or shrubs wholly glabrous, with alternate thick fleshy 



leaves * . . . . . .2. Lumnitzera. 



Large trees, with alternate or subopposite leaves ; fruit large, 



a fleshy drupe, or dry, with 3-7 wings . . .3. Terminalia. 



Flowers in globose heads ; fruit small, flat, imbricated . . 4. Anogeissus. 



Calycopteris floribunda, Lam. {Getonia floribunda, Roxb. Cor. PL t. 87 ; Fl. 

 Ind. ii. 428), is a large climbing shrub ; branchlets, underside of leaves, inflor- 

 escence, and calyx rusty-pubescent ; leaves opposite, ovate-lanceolate ; flowers 

 greenish, in large rounded, terminal panicles. Fruit villous, ovoid, 1-seeded, 

 crowned with the persistent calyx, with 5 enlarged, linear-lanceolate, mem- 

 branous lobes, \-\ in. long. Burma, Bengal, South India, probably in the 

 Centr. Prov. Fl. March- April. G. nutans, Roxb., is probably not specifi- 

 cally different. 



Quisqualis indica, Linn. ; Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 427 ; Wight 111. t. 92 (Q. villosa, 

 Roxb., The Rangoon Creeper), is a large seandent shrub with showy flowers, 

 first white, then blood-red or orange, in drooping racemes. Calyx- tube filiform, 

 3-4 in. long, bearing at the throat 5 elliptic- oblong petals. Fruit oblong, 1^ 

 in. long, with 5 sharp angles or wings. Burma, Indian Archipelago, grown in 

 gardens throughout the greater part of India. FL May-Sept. 



1. COMBRETUM, Linn. 



Shrubs, generally climbing, with opposite, rarely verticillate petiolate 

 membranous leaves, and polygamo-doicous flowers. Calyx-tube cylin- 



