Lll. COMBRETACE^, 



I. COMBRETUM SERIES. 



The flowers of Gomhreta^ (fig. 226-228) are hermaphrodite or 

 polygamo-dioecious. In certain species they are pentamerous, notably 



Combretum {Poivrea) coccinetcm. 



Fig-. 226. Flower (f). 



Fig. 227. Diagram. 



Yis. 228. Lon^. sect, of flower. 



in those of which the genera Poivrea^ and Cacoucia^ have been 

 made. The receptacle has the form of a very deep sac, narrow and 

 elongate/ insensibly attenuated towards the upper part and there 



1 Combretum Lcefl. Ic. 308. — L. Gen. n. 475. 

 — GiERTx. Fruct. i. 176, t. 36. — Lamk. Bid. i. 

 734 ; Suppl. ii. 229 ; III. t. 282.— DC. Prodr. iii. 

 18 ; Mem. Combret. t. 5.— Turp. Diet. Sc. Nat. 

 Atl. t. 221.— Spach, Suit, a Buffon, iv. 308.— 

 Endl. Gen. n. 6087.— Payer, Fam. Nat. 96.— 

 Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 452. — Aetia Adans. Fam. des 

 PL ii. 84. — Forsgardia Velloz. Fl. Flum. 152; 

 iv. t. 13. — Chrysostachys Pohl, PL Bras. ii. 65, 

 t. 143. — Embryogonia Bl. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. ii. 

 122. — Sheadendron Bektol. 111. Plant. Mozamb. 

 Mem. Acad. Bulogn. (1850) 12, t. 4.— Kl. Pet. 

 Moss. Bat. 74, t. 14. — Car. Journ. Linn. Soc. iv. 

 IQl. — Calopyxis TuL. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 4, vi. 

 86. — Bureava H. Bf^. Adansonia, i. 71 (ex M. 



Obs. Plant. Afr. 

 Prodr. iii. 17. — 

 230. — Gonocarpus 



Kl. {Pet. Moss. Bot. 101) is, according to Muel- 

 ler d'Argovie (DC. Prodr. xv. p. ii. 700), by- 

 one of its species {A. Petersii, Kl.) syn. with 

 Combretum. 



2 CoMMERS. ex Dup.-Th. 

 Austu 28.— DC. Mem. t. 4: 

 Pevrcea Commers. ex J. Gen. 

 Ham. Prodr. FL Ind. Occ 39. 



3 AuBL. Guian. i. 450. — J. Gen. 300. — Lamk. 

 IlL t. 359.— DC. Prodr. iii. 22 (part).— Spach, 

 loc. cit. 3i5.— Endl. Gen. n. 6088.— B. H. Gen. 

 688. — Eambergera Scop. Introd. n. 21%.— Ham- 

 bergia Neck. Elem. n. ^ZO.—Schombeea W. Spec. 

 578 (not ScHUM. et Thonn.). 



■* Often with 4-6 salient angles. 



