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1. Combketum TRiFOLiATUM, Vent. Choix t. 58. A powerful 

 climber ; young branches slender, terete, glabrous or puberulous ; in the 

 older branches the bark scaling off. Leaves coriaceous, opposite or 

 alternate, oblong-lanceolate or oblong-oblanceolate, or narrowly elliptic, 

 sub-ncute, the base cuneate ; both surfaces glabrous and shining ; main 

 nerves 5-7 pairs, spreading or ascending, distinct on the lower surface, 

 hardly visible on the upper, reticulations indistinct ; length 175-55 

 in., breadth *8-2 in., petiole '2-25 in. Spikes axillary, solitary or in pairs, 

 or terminal and in panicles, puberulous. Flowers "15 in. in diam. at 

 the mouth, densely crowded. Calyx-tube with a very short constriction 

 above the ovary ; the mouth wide, cupular, and with 5 broad triangular 

 teeth, everywhere adpressed-pubescent externally. Petals lanceolate, 

 slightly exceeding the calyx-lobes in length. Pise and bottom of the 

 mouth of the calyx pubescent. Stamens exserted. Fruit lvl-1'25 in. 

 long and *5 in. in diam., with 5 very acute angles, glabrous, dark-brown 

 when ripe. G. Don in Trans. Linn. Soc. XV, 439 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 

 1, pt. I, 610; Kurz For. Fl. Brit. Burma I, 46l ; Clarke in Hook. fil. 

 Fl. Br. Ind. II, 454. C. lucidum, Blume Bijd. 641. 0. undulatum and 

 0. elegans, Wall. Cat. 3993, 4003. 0. subalternans, Wall. Cat. 4008 ? 

 Terminalia lancifolia, Griff. Notul. IV, 685. Embryogonia lucida, 

 Blume Mus. Bot. II, t. 52. Cacoucia ? trifoliata, DC. Prodr. II, 22. 0." 

 lucida, Hassk. in Flora 1844, p. 607. 



Trang ; Kings Collector ; doubtless also occurring in other provinces. 

 Distrib. British India, Java. 



2. Combretum tetralophum, Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 

 454. A powerful climber ; young branches slender, with minute brown 

 rusty scales. Leaves opposite, thinly coriaceous, oblong-elliptic, shortly 

 acuminate, the base cuneate ; upper surface glabrous, shining, the lower 

 with scattered brown glands when young and puberulous on the midrib 

 and nerves ; main nerves 7 or 8 pairs, oblique, ascending, inconspicuous 

 on both surfaces ; length 2*5-5*5 in., breadth 1-2 in., petiole '3-*4 in. 

 Spikes axillary, solitary, much shorter than the leaves, slightly scaly 

 below the flowers, very scaly and puberulous between them. Flowers 



1 in. in diam. at the mouth. Calyx-tube constricted above the ovary, 

 the constricted part as long as the ovary ; the mouth campanulate and 

 with 4 ovate erect pubescent lobes. Petals slightly longer than the 

 calyx-lobes but much narrower, linear. Pise and fundus of the mouth 

 of the calyx rusty-villous. Stamens and style exserted. Fruit *75-l in. 

 long and half as broad, shining, dark-coloured, the edges very acute but 

 not winged. 



Malacca ; Griffith 2195. Perak j King's Collector 1012. Distrib. 

 Siam, Borneo. 



