COMBRETACE/E. 281 



ceptacle far produced beyond gerruen attenuate ; sepals patent or 

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

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

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

 or concave within, convex or sulcate witbout. — Climbing shrubs ; 

 branches sarmentose ; leaves opposite or subopposite entire ; flowers ' 

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

 and Africa.-) 



3. Lumnitzera W. 3 — Flowers (nearly of Combretum) 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 4 ' 10 and 

 germen of Combretum; ovules 2-6 ; 5 funicle elongate. Fruit oblong, 

 ovoidly attenuate, or subfusiform compressed woody, laterally obtuse 

 angled to remains of bracteoles, crowned with persistent calyx. 

 Seed linear ; 6 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 7 

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

 world. 8 ) 



4. Laguncularia G.eetn. f.° — 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. 4 Anthers in younger hud and at anthesis in- 



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

 38. — Burm. Fl. Iiid. t. 28, fig. 2. — P.-Beauv. 5 Dissepiments in earliest stage distinct more 

 Fl. Ow. et Ben. i. 55, t. 34. — Bl. Bijdr. 641. — or less prominent. 



Eoxe. Fl. Ind. ii. 420. — Presl. Epim. 216. — 6 Often sterile ; fruit hence vacant. 



Wight and Arn. Prodr. i. 318. — Wight, III. t. 1 White coccineus or (?) yellow. 



92. — Hauv. and Sond. Fl. Cap. ii. 512. — Laws. s Spec. 4,5, Wight and Arn. Prodr.'i. 316. — 



Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 435. — Hook. Bot. Mag. Presl. lit/. Ecenk. ii. 25. — Gaudich. Freycin. 



t. 2033.— Bot. Reg. t. 492.— WALr. Rep. ii. 68 ; I'og.Bot.t. 104, 105 {Bagvmmlarid). — Benth. 



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



3 iV. Schz. Ges. Nat. Fr. Berl. iv. 186.— DC. 41S — Wai.p. Rep. 63; Ann. i. 289; iv. 672. 

 Prodr. iii. 22.— Endl. Gen. n. 6084.— B. H. Gen. 9 Fruct. iii. 209, t. 217.— DC. Frodr. iii. 17.— 

 687, n. 7.— Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. iôl.—Pi/rraiit/nis Spach, Suit, à Buffon, iv. 304.— Endl. Gen. a. 

 J,v< k, M<i/. JI.v. ex Hook. Comp. i. 150. — Beta- 6083. — B. H. Gen. 088, n. 9. — Sphenoearpm L. 

 I„ui,( lùixii. ./•'/. hid. ii. 372 (not Sw.). — Funkia C. Rich. Anal. Fruit. 92. — Horaa Adans. Fam. 

 Dennst. Sort. Malab. vi. 37 (ex Endl.). des Fl. ii. 80. 



