Combretum. | COMBRETACEE, 459 
Var. 2. macrocarpa (Pentaptera macrocarpa, Wall.): bark 
rough fissured ; inflorescence and the whole calyx (except the 
dense rusty villosity at the bottom inside) glabrous; fruits usually 
et = always) 24 in. across. 
ar. 1: frequent in the mixed forests of the Pegu Yomah and else- 
Psy var. ne : common in all leaf-shedding forests from Chittagong, Prome, 
and Martaban down to Shean up to 2,000 ft. elevation.—Fl. H.S.; Fr 
C.S.—1.—SS.—= oSi8. 
oe —Heart-wood dark-brown. 0’'=58 pd. Used for house-posts and 
planking 
COMBRETUM, L. 
Flowers polygamously dioecious. Calyx-tu tube constricted above 
the wae he limb bell-shaped, 4- or See deciduous. Petals 4 or 
rted between the calyx 
ost spongy, 
elongate, the —. various.—Shrubs, usually climber, rarely 
trees, with opposite or whorled, very rarely alternate, leaves. 
Flowers in spikes or racemes often, collected into to panicles. Bracts 
small or rather conspicuous. 
* Flowers 5-merous. Stamens 10, alt equal or alternstely 
shorter. ee ee oe a eets 
-winged. 
x vias Sieh abruptly cup-shaped. 
Leaves > 14-3 in. long —— greyish seston aa floral 
¢ discoloured . C. apetalum. 
sare Petals present. 
ane oe opposite ; inflorescence rusty or tawny-tomentose, the 
ral leaves discoloured and white; eS 
. C. decandrum. 
Leaves often whorled by 2-4, smooth, aceous ; inflorese 
greyish tomentose tose, without floral ied fruits with 5 res 
thick, almost t wing-like angles . C. trifoliolatum. 
Similar to former, panes leaves rigid, strongly nerved and net-veined ; 
fruits sharply 4-cornered . C. tetragono- 
— cana Timb bell- shaped, gradually narrowed into the carpum, 
Inflorescence, sada: and branchlets all greyish or rusty puberu- 
lous or velve - C. ovale. 
————- qotclens and branchlets ‘all rusty pilose; fruits 5. 
> * Flower. 2 merous. Sta mens 8, “equal or “alternately 
: shorter. Fruits usually 4- (earely 5-) winged or 
. C. pilosum. 
