COMBRETACEm. 281 



ceptacle far produced beyond germen attenuate ; sepals patent or 

 recurved. Stamens 10, germen ovules 4, 5, etc. of Comhrekivi. 

 Fruit oblong coriaceous, acutely 5-gonal, 5-alate; seed 5-gonal. 

 Embryo exalbuminous ; cotyledons 2 (or rarely 3), thick fleshy, flat 

 or concave within, convex or sulcate without. — Climbing shrubs ; 

 branches sarmentose ; leaves opposite or subopposite entire ; flowers ^ 

 in spikes, sometimes compound, axillary and terminal. {Trop, Asia 

 and Africa.^) 



3. Lumnitzera W.^ — Flowers (nearly of Comhretum) herma- 

 phrodite ; receptacle oblong, attenuate on both sides, externally 

 increased to middle by 2 lateral adnate bracteoles, produced some- 

 what beyond germen and finally dilated. Sepals 5, equal or unequal, 

 imbricate, persistent. Petals 5, oblong patent. Stamens* 10 and 

 germen of Com5reto7i; ovules 2-6;^ funicle elongate. Fruit oblong, 

 ovoidly attenuate, or subfusiform compressed woody, laterally obtuse 

 angled to remains of bracteoles, crowned with persistent calyx. 

 Seed linear ; ^ cotyledons of exalbuminous embryo convolute. — Trees 

 and shrubs ; leaves alternate, inserted at summit of twigs, subsessile, 

 obovate-cuneate, thick coriaceous enervate, entire or crenate; flowers'^ 

 in short axillary and terminal racemes. (All tropical shores of old 

 world.^) 



4. LaguncTilaria G^etn. r.^ — Flowers polygamous (nearly of 

 Lumnitzera) ; receptacle (in male flower short) turbinate rather 

 terete not produced beyond germen, laterally increased by 2 small 

 adnate bracteoles. Calyx urceolate, 5 -fid, persistent. Petals 5, 

 small, caducous. Stamens 10; filaments short incurved; anthers 

 cordate enclosed or slightly exserted. Germen internally adnate to 



1 White or red, changeable. ^ Anthers in younger bud and at anthesis in- 



2 Spec. 3, 4, RuMPH. Herb. Amboin. v. 71, t. trorse. Filaments in bud incurvo-conduplicate. 

 38.— BuRM. Fl. Ind. t. 28, fig. 2. — P.-Beauv. ° Dissepiments in earliest stage distinct more 

 Fl, Ow. et Ben. i. 65, t. 34.— Bl. Bijdr. 641. — or less prominent. 



RoxB. Fl. Ind. ii. 426. — Presl. Ejnm. 216. — ^ Often sterile ; fruit hence vacant. 



Wight and Arn. Frodr. i. 318. — ^Wight, III. t. 7 White coccineus or (?) yellow. 



92.— Harv. and Sond. Fl. Cap. ii. 512. — Laws. « Spec. 4,5, Wight and Arn. Prodr.^i. 316. — 



Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 435.— Hook. Bot. Mag. Presl. Eel. Hoenk. ii. 25.— Gaudich. Freycin. 



t. 2033.-^0^. Reg. t. 492.— Walp. Rep. ii. 68 ; Voxj. Bot. t. 104, 105 (ZayM;/c«/«na).— Benth. 



V. 663 ; Ann. iii. 860. Fl. Austral, ii. 503.— Laws. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 



3 N. Schz. Ges. Nat. Fr. Berl. iv. 186.— DC. 418.— Walp. Rep. 63; Am., i. 289; iv. 672. 

 Prodr. iii. 22.— Endl. Gen. n. 6084.— B. H. Gm. » Fmct. iii. 209, t. 217.— DC. Frodr. iii. 17.— 

 687, n. 7.— Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 4.c>\.—Pgrranthus Spach, Suit, a Bvffon, iv. 304.— Endl. Gen. n. 

 Jack, Mai. Misc. ex Hook. Comp. i. 156.— P^^a- 6083.— B. H. Gen. 688, n. Q.—Sphenocarpus L. 

 loma RoxB. Fl. Ind. ii. 372 (not ^^.).—Funkia C. Rich. Anal. Fruit. 92.— Horau Adans. Fam, 

 Dennst. Mort. Malab. vi. 37 (ex Endl.). des PI. ii. 80. 



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