LU. COMBRETACEiE. 



I. COMBRETUM SERIES. 



The flowers of Gombreta 1 (fig. 226-228) are hermaphrodite or 

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



Combretum [Poivred) coccineum. 



26. Flower (f). 



Fie;. 227. Diagram. 



Fig. 228. Long. sect, of flower. 



in those of which the genera Polvrea" and Cacoucia 3 have been 

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

 elongate, 4 insensibly attenuated towards the upper part and there 



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

 — Gjertn. Fruct. i. 176, t. 36. — Lamk. Diet. i. 

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

 IS ; Mém. Combret. t. 5. — Turp. Diet. Sc. Nat. 

 Atl. t. 221.— Spach, Suit, à Buffmi, iv. 308.— 

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

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

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

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

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

 122. — Sheadendron Bektol. III. Plant. Mozamb. 

 Mém. Acad. Bologn. (1850) 12, t. 4.— Ex. Pet. 

 Moss. But. 74, t. 14. — Car. Journ. linn. Soc. iv. 

 167.— Calopyxis Tul. Ann. Sc. Nat. sér. 4, vi. 

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

 Aug. DC. Prodr. xv. p. ii. 1258. — Argyrodendron 



El. {Pet. Moss. Bot. 101) is, according to Mdel- 

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

 one of its species (.4. Petersii, El.) syn. with 

 Combretum. 



- Commers. ex Dup.-Th. Obs. Plant. Afi. 

 Aiisti. 28.— DC. Mem. t. 4; Prodr. iii. 17.— 

 Ptvrœa Commers. ex J. Gen. 230. — Gonocarpus 

 Ham. Prodr. Fl. Ind. Occ. 39. 



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

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

 foc. cit. 315.— Endl. Gen. n. 6088.— B. H. Gen. 

 688. — Humbert/era Scop. Introd. n. 276. — Ham- 

 bergia Neck. Flem. n. 830. — Schousbœa W. Spec. 

 578 (not Schum. et Thonn.). 



4 Often with 4-6 salient angles. 



