338 G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No, 1, 



glabrous or glandular-puberulous. Wall. Cat. 3996 ; Gr. Don in Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. XV, 422 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, pt. I, 608; Knrz For. Fl. 

 Brit. Burma I, 463; Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 458. 0. 

 rotundifolium, Roxb. Fl. Ind. II, 226; Wall. Cat. 3995. C. Wightianum, 

 Wall. Cat. 4007 ; W. & A. Prodr. 317 ; Wight Ic. t. 227 ; Dalz. & Gibs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 90. 0. Horsfieldii, Miq. 1. c. 609 ; Kurz in Flora 1871, p. 289. 

 C. platyphyllum, Heurck & Muell.-Arg. Obs. Bot. 242 ; Kurz in Journ. 

 As. Soc. Beng. 1874, pt. II, 188. O macrostaclujum, Wall. Cat. 3997. 

 C. latifolium, Blume Bijd. 641 ; Miq. 1. c. 609. G. leucanthum, Heurck 

 & Muell.-Arg. Obs. Bot. 240. C. formosum, Griff. Notul. IV, 682, (fide 

 Kurz). 



Malacca ; Berry 386. Andaman Islands ; very common. Not com- 

 mon in the other Provinces. Distrib. British India. 



5. Combretum chinense, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 28. A powerful 

 climber; young branches slender, terete, with sparse minute scales. 

 Leaves opposite, or in whorls of three (var. ternatum) <> thinly coriaceous, 

 elliptic or elliptic-oblong, sometimes obovate, shortly and abruptly 

 acuminate, the base slightly narrowed; both surfaces glabrous, sparsely 

 squamulose like the young branches and inflorescence, the upper surface 

 of a dark colour when dry, the lower pale-brown (pubescent in tar. 

 pubescens) ; main nerves 7 or 8 pairs, spreading, curved, slightly promi- 

 nent on the lower surface, scarcely visible on the upper ; length 3'25-5 

 in., breadth 15-225 in., petiole 'lb-'4* in. Spikes solitary, axillary, 

 longer than the leaves, many-flowered ; the bracteoles linear, deciduous. 

 Calyx-tube *25 in. long, slender at the base, expanding into a funnel- 

 shaped mouth *15 in. in diam. when fully expanded, with 4 deep erect 

 triangular acute scaly lobes, globular when in bud but the apex acute. 

 Petals broadly obovate, clawed, longer than the lobes of the calyx, 

 glabrous. Disc and interior of calyx fulvous-pubescent. Fruit 1-1 25 

 in. long and *8-l in. broad, with 4 slightly unequal scarious coriaceous 

 horizontal striate sparsely squamulose wings. Roxb. Fl. Ind. II, 230 

 (not of G. Bon); Kurz For. Flora Burma, I, 463; Clarke in Hook, 

 fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 457. ? G. Griffithii, Heurck and Muell.-Arg. Obs. 

 Bot. 231. 



Andaman Islands; very common. Perak; Wray 2314, 2743. 

 King's Collector 4646. 



Var. ternatum ; Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 453 ; leaves 

 often in whorls of three, usually obovate. C. ternatum, Wall. Cat. 4002. 



In the Andamans (doubtful). Distrib. Chittagong. Burma. 



Yar. Porterianum, Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 457; leaves 

 elliptic-oblong, acuminate, never obovate, main nerves about 8 pairs. 

 C. Porterianum, Wall. Cat. 4000. 



