306 XLIX. RHIZOPHOBACEvE [CaralUa 



cms, glossy, elliptic, sometimes obovate, entire (serrulate in Cor. PL), blade 

 3-6, petiole \ in. long, sec. n. numerous arching. Fl. creamy-white, sessile, 

 in axillary short peciuncled cymes. 



Subhinial. tract, Nepal, Sikkim, ascending to 4,000 ft. Assam, Khasi hills, Chittagong. 

 Singhbhum. Burma, Upper and Lower. Western Peninsula, Northern Circars. On 

 the west side from the Konkan southwards. Fl. Oct.-April. Aerial roots (Gamble, 

 Ind. Tirab. Ed. II. 335). — Ceylon. China. Malay Penins. and Archip. to Australia. 

 2. C. lancejefolia, Roxb ; Wight Ic. t. 604. Kurz F. Fl. i. 451. Upper Tenasserim. 

 L. thinly coriaceous, serrate, blade of petals broad, crenulate, embracing the stamens. 

 Fr. 2-3-seeded. 



Gynotrocb.es axillaris, Blume. Tenasserim (Kurz). A small evergreen glabrous tree, 

 1. coriaceous, glossy, strongly net-veined. Fl. polygamous, small, yellowish-green, in 

 axillary fascicles. Calyx free, 4-5-lobed nearly to the base, petals clawed, fimbriate, 

 stamens 8 or 10. Ovary free, base only adnate to calyx, 3-6-celled, ovules 4 in each cell. 

 Fr. a small globose, many-seeded berry. 



Weihea zeylanica, Baill. ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 194. Ghats of South Tinnevelli and South 

 Travancore. Ceylon. A small tree, 1. thin, almost membranous, elliptic-lanceolate, 

 2-3 in. long, stipules oblong, ciliate. Fl. white, axillary, solitary, or 2-3 together, buds 

 enclosed in 2 thick rounded ciliate bracts. Calyx free, cut nearly to the base into 5 

 lanceolate densely silky segments, i in. long. Petals cuneate, apex deeply laciniate, 

 stamens 30, hypogynous, ovary free, 3-celled, 2 ovules in each cell. Capsule fleshy, septi- 

 cidally dehiscent, seeds 4-6, embryo straight in the axis of endosperm. 



Blepharistemma eorymbosum, Wall. ; Bedd. Manual t. xiv. Western Peninsula, from 

 South Kanara southwards. A tree attaining 100 ft. in Travancore, young shoots, 

 petioles and inflorescence pubescent. L. membranous, crenate, blade 3-6, petiole J in. 

 long. Fl. polygamous, J in. long, calyx hairy, free, campanulate, lobes 4, triangular, 

 petals twice the length of calyx, hairy, tips laciniate, stame*ns 8. Ovary free, 3-celled. 



Order L. C0MBRETACE.E. Gen. PI. i. 683. 



(Brandis in Engler it. Prantl. iii. 7. 106.) 



Trees or shrubs, leaves simple, entire, "without stipules. Fl. bracteate, 

 usually sessile, bisexual, rarely polygamous, regular with a zygomorphic ten- 

 dency. Calyx-tube adnate to ovary and produced beyond it, free portion 4-5- 

 cleft, segments valvate. Petals wanting, or small, inserted on the edge of 

 calyx-tube between its segments. Stamens as many as calyx-segments or 

 twice their number, inserted inside the calyx, anthers dehiscing longitudinally. 

 Ovary inferior, 1-celled, ovules 2-5, rarely more, on large funicles, pendulous 

 from the apex of the cell. Fr. generally angled or winged, seed 1, without 

 albumen. Embiyo straight, radicle superior, cotyledons oily, generally con- 

 volute. 



In this, as well as in the allied Orders, ffliizophoracece, Myrtacece and Sosacece, I follow 

 the practice of most English text-books in describing the calyx as adnate to the ovary. 

 In reality, however, what is here called calyx should be regarded as the continuation of 

 the axis (pedicel), which is hollow, enclosing the ovary, bearing sepals at the apex, here 

 called calyx-segments. What in these orders usually is described as the calyx, 

 bears bracteoles in some cases, and consequently ought to be regarded as an axial organ. 

 {Lumnitzera and other genera.) This was the view taken by me, when describing 

 Combretacece for Engler u. Prantl's work. 



Combretacea? have phloem on the inner side of the wood-cylinder, at the circumference 

 of the pith, either forming a continuous ring (Terminalia, several species of Combretum) 

 or in distinct masses. This interior phloem either consistsof thin- Availed elements only 

 (Terminalia, Aiiogeissns), or is accompanied by thick-walled bast-fibres (species of 

 Combretum). The medullary rays as a rule are harrow, Combretum decandrum, how- 

 ever, has two classes of rays, broad rays, consisting of many layers of cells, and narrow 

 rays, consisting of one layer only. Apart from vessels and rays the wood mainly 

 consists of wood fibres; but a few species {Terminalia bialata and behrica) have broad 



