Combretmn.] Combretacea. 163. 



Mangrove swamps round the coast ; rather common. Colombo ; 

 Chilaw; Puttalam; Kalpitiya; Panadure; Kalutara; Jaffna. Fl. Feb.; 

 white. 



Shores of the Eastern Tropics generally. 



This forms part of the vegetation of tidal swamps, and is reckoned as 

 a mangrove. Turns black in drying. Wood pale reddish-grey, smooth 

 and shining, rather heavy, very strong and durable, but of small size. 



4. COMBRETUBI, L. 



Semi-scandent or straggling shrubs, 1. opp., entire, fl. poly- 

 gamous, in axillary spikes or racemes ; cal.-tube constricted 

 above ov. and more or less produced beyond it, limb cam- 

 panulate cup-shaped or funnel-shaped, segm. 4 ; pet. 4, very 

 small ; stam. 8, inserted with pet. on cal.-limb ; ov. inferior, 

 narrow and stalk-like, i-celled, with 2-5 pendulous ovules ; 

 fruit dry or fleshy, indehiscent, with 4 prominent wings ; seed 

 solitary, cotyledons large, plaited. — Sp. 120; 18 in Fl. B. Ind. 



Fruit with thick fleshy wings 1. C. ACUMINATUM. 



Fruit with thin papery wings 



Cal.-limb cup-shaped 2. C. ovalifolium. 



Cal.-limb long funnel-shaped . . . . 3. C. extensum. 



1. C. acuminatum, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 28 (1S14). 

 C. sarcopte?'um, Thw. Enum. 415. C. P. 3715. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 455. 



A low straggling bush, with long branches, not climbing, 

 young shoots with rough scaly ferrugineous pubescence ; 

 1. 5-7 in., oval or ovate-oval, rounded at base, more or less 

 acuminate, sub-obtuse, undulate, glabrous, densely covered 

 beneath with minute prominent glands, venation prominent 

 beneath, petiole very short, \-l in. ; fl. on very short ped., 

 racemes spike-like, usually solitary, shorter than 1.; cal. 

 glabrous, minutely glandular, limb campanulatc ; pet. minute, 

 spathulatc ; stam. twice or thrice as long as cal.; fruit nearly 

 2 in., ovoid-oblong, narrowed at both ends, fleshy, minutely 

 glandular, brown, wings thick and blunt. 



Moist low country; rare. Colombo (Ferguson); Horana, Reigam 

 Korale ; Hiniduma; Kalutara; Heneratgoda. Fl. August-October; 

 yellow. 



Also in Assam, IUinna, Malaya, and the Philippines. 



2. C. ovalifolium, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 28 (18 14). Kaduruketiya- 

 wel, .V. 



C. Wightianum, 1 hw. Enum. 103 (in part). C. Thwailcsianum, Van 



k and Mull. Arg. Obs. Hot. 238. C. P. 1601. 

 II. B. Ind. ii. 45^,. Hook. Bot. Miscell. iii. t. supp. 22 (C. I feyneanum). 



