Combretum] L. COMBRETACE.E .813 



A large climber, 1. elliptic- or ovate-lanceolate, underside often slightly hairy, 

 blade 4-8, petiole \ in., sec. n. 10-15 pair. Fl. yellow, in slender axillary 

 spikes, often forming leafy panicles at the ends of branches, free part of calyx 

 campanulate, petals small, narrow, stamens long exserted. Fr. 1—2 in. long, 

 narrowly ellipsoid, with four thick rounded ridges. 



Assam, Kliasi hills. Pegu, Tenasserim. Fl. E. S. Ceylon low country, rare. 8. C. 

 tetragonocarpum, Kurz, Pegu, imperfectly known. 



C. Fl. tetramerous, fr. with 4 papery wings. 



9. C. flagrocarpum, Herb. Gale. — Syu. C. Wnllirhii, ICurz F. Fl. i. 465. 



A large scandent shrub, young shoots and inflorescence densely clothed with 

 rusty peltate scales, 1. broad-elliptic with numerous minute resinous dots on 

 both sides, chiefly beneath, pubescent along the nerves, blade 5—9, petiole 

 stout \ in. Ionic. Spikes axillary and in terminal panicles, bracts linear, 

 persistent. Petals white, spathulate, exceeding the triangular calyx-segments. 

 Fr. 1-1} in. long iiiid equally broad, red or red-brown, surface of seed portion 

 densely covered between the wings with lanceolate-linear scales. 



Sikkiin. ascending to 5,000 ft., Assam. Kliasi and JJaga hills. Manipur, Chittagong. 

 Upper Burma. Fl. May. June. Closely allied: 10. C. Wallichii, DC. Nepal, Sikkiin, 

 common, ascending to 5,000 ft. A straggling shrub, differs from 9 by smaller and 

 thinner leaves with tufts of yellow hair in the axils of the sec. n. on the underside, 

 minute fugacious bracts, and small petals. 



11. C. dasystachyum, Kurz F. PI. i. 4(14. Vera. Semakan nicd, Burm. 



A woody climber (deciduous, Smales), branchlets, petioles, underside*of 

 younger leaves (chiefly along nerves), and inflorescence pubescent. L. mem- 

 branous, lanceolate from a narrowly cordate base, sec. n. 8-10 pair, arching, 

 blade 3-9, petiole j --.'. in. Fl. in axillary (sometimes compound) spikes, free 

 portion of calyx funnel-shaped, claw of petals nearly as long as the obovate 

 blade. Fr. shining, It by 1 in. 



Assam. Kliasi hills, (.'achar. Chittagong. Burma. Lower and Upper. Fl. II. S. 

 Fr. C. S. Closely allied are: 12. C. chinense, Roxb. Assam. Kliasi hills. Chitta- 

 gong. Andnm.'ins. Kastcrn slopes of tin- Pegu Ybma. Hills easl of Toungoo, 



2,000 ft. Mergui. Malay Peninsula. \ large « h climber (evergreen, Kurz), 1. 



glabrous, thinly eoriaeemis, frequently in whorls of three, elliptic or obovate-elliptic, 



young si ts and inflorescence sparsely covered with minute scales and resinous dots, 



fr. 1-1 }, in. lone-, nearly as brood as long, wings retuse at both cuds. 13. C. squamosum, 

 Roxb. Sikkiin Terai on the hanks of streams. Bhutan, Assam, Kliasi hills, Cachar. 

 Pegu, Tenasserim. Andaman*. -Malay Peninsula. A large climber, branchlets, 



leaves and inflorescence covered with round peltate scales with pal Iges, 1. thinly 



coria us. from a roundel base, broadly elliptic, abrupt ly acuminate, blade ■'■ 5, pel iole 



J-Jin.long, fr. 1-1J in. long and equally broad. I I.e. quadrangulare, Kurz, Tenasserim, 

 clothed with circular scales, branchlets sharply quadrangular, I. oblanceolate or lanceo 

 late, gradual!) oarrowed into the short petiole, fl, small. 



LB. C. ovalifolium, Roxb.; Trimen Handb. Ceylon ii. 163. Wm. 

 Ztimarbola, Jabalpur. 



A large straggling or climbing almost entirely glabrous shrub, branchlets 



st iff. divaricate, nearly at right angles to stem or branches, I. opposite, f, 



an acute base elliptic, acuminate, blade 3 •">. petiole J in. long. Fl. white, in 

 axillarj and terminal panicled spikes, with a few broadly-ovate, coloured Bora! 

 leaves (bracts) al the base of ramifications, fl. outside with minute hairs and 

 thin peltate scales, bracts minute. Fr. ''f in. long, nearlj glabrous. 



Deciduous forests in the Central Provinces, Berar, and the Western Peninsula. Fl. 

 Jan. Mar., I, turn .!:■ i lv red before falling, climbs over tall trees and often carpets 

 the ground on the banks of streams, like ivy. Ceylon, drj country. 16. C. nanum, 

 Ham.; Brandis F. Fl, 221, is a small undershrub, with a thick woody prostrate or 

 underground stem, common in grass lands of the Subhimalayan tract, from the Jumna 

 to sikkim, in the Oudh forests, Behar and the Central Provinces. Also on the Shan 

 hills of Upper Burma, The leaf- and B .-bearing stems are burnt down to the ground 

 annually by the Bres of the bol season, b. obovate, fr. 1) in. long, in dense clusters, 



