COMBRETACEJE. 



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on one side, and the stamens are more decidedly incurved in the bud. 

 The androocium is diplostemouous or sometimes formed of a number 

 of stamens a little above ten ; a fact occasionally observed in the 

 Combreta proper. On the other hand there is impoverishment of 



Quisqualis indica. 



Fig. 230. Flower (f). 



Fis*. 229. Floriferous branch. 



Fig. 231. Long, 

 sect, of flower. 



the androocium in Thiloa^ the apetalous and tetramerous flower of 

 which sometimes has eight stamens ; four of them may be wanting 

 or remain sterile. All these plants, however, appear tous inseparable 

 from the genus Combretnm, which, thus constituted, comprises about 

 a hundred and thirty species, 2 generally shrubby, not unfrequently 

 sarmentose and climbing, with opposite leaves, rarely verticillate or 



described as fleshy. However, it is finally 

 quite dry and 5-angular, like that of so many 

 other Comàreteœ, and it also presents incomplete 

 lines of dehiscence. 



1 Eichl. Regernb. Flora (18GG), n. 10; Mart. 

 II. Bras. Combret. 103, t. 27. 



- H. B. Tl. JEquin. t. 132 ; Admis, xi. 379.— 

 II. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Spec. vii. 138.— A. S. II. 



