1897.] G. King — Materials for a Flora of tlie Malayan Teninsula. 335 



Kurz For. Fl. Brit. Burma I, 468 ; Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Tnd. IT, 

 452. Pyrranthus albus, Wall. Cat. 4019. Petaloma alternifolia, Roxb. 

 Fl. Ind. II, 372. Bruguiera madagascariensis, DC. Prodr. Ill, 23. 

 Rheede Hort. Mai. VI, t. 37. 



In Mangrove-swamps in all the Provinces. Distrib. British India, 

 the Malayan Archipelago, North Australia and Polynesia. 



4. Combretum, Linn. 



Shrubs with long pendent or scandent branches. Leaves entire, 

 petioled, opposite or more seldom alternate or ternate. Flowers herma- 

 phrodite or polygamo-dicecioUs, in spikes or panicles, bracteoles small. 

 Galyx-tube constricted above the ovary, short or long-produced, urceo- 

 late funnel-shaped tubular or campanulate ; limb 4-5-lobed, deciduous. 

 Petals as many as the calyx-lobes, (0 in C. apetalum), placed on the 

 calyx-limb. Stamens twice as many as the petals, inserted in two series 

 with them. Ovary inferior, 1-celled ; style 1, subulate, simple ; ovules 

 2-5, pendent from the top of the cell. Fruit with 4-5 win^s angles or 

 ridges, dry, generally indehiscent. Seed 1 ; cotyledons plaited or flat, 

 in a few species convoluted. Distrib. Species 160, common in the 

 tropics of America, Africa and Asia ; also in South Africa. 



Flowers 5-merons ; fruit 5-angled ... 

 Flowers 4-merous ; fruit 4-angled ... 

 Flowers 4-merous ; fruit 4-winged : — 



Tube of calyx much elongate ; flowers not squamose, buds 

 ellipsoid, their apices very much pointed : — 



Flowers condensed in globose masses at the ends of the 

 branches of the panicle 

 Flower-spikes elongated 

 Tube of calyx long ; flowers squamose, buds globose, the 

 apex rather acute ... ... ... 



Tube of calyx short ; buds not pointed : — 



Flowers squamose ; leaves not cordate and with distinct 

 petioles '3-'4 in. long : — 



Fruit not compressed, its faces all narrow and equal, 

 its wings broad and thin 



Fruit compressed, two of its faces broad and two 

 narrow, its wings short and thick 

 Flowers not squamose ; leaves cordate and with very 

 short petioles ('OS-IS in. long) : — 

 Leaves glabrous except the midrib : — 



Panicle and calyx with short thick glandular hairs 

 Panicles cinereous-tomentose ; flowers puberulous ; 

 fruit black when ripe and with narrow wings 

 Leaves, except when old, with long adpressed hairs 

 beneath ; panicles sericeous-tomentose ; fruit pale- 

 brown when dry, with broad thin wings ... 



C. trifoliatum. 

 C. tetralophum. 



3. 



C. sundiacum. 



4. 



C. extensum. 



5. 



C. chinense. 



6. 



C. squamosum. 



7. 



C. Wrayi. 



8. 



C. Kunstleri. 



9. 



G. nigrescens. 



10. 



C. Scortechinii. 



