462 COMBRETACER. [ Combretum. 
glabrous, pale-brown, elliptically ovate, 4-cornered, the ome* — 
s, sharp and almost -like 
riaceous, prominent, much n 
than the diameter of the nut. 
Hap ae in er —_— forests of the alluvial plains of Pegu.—Fl. 
Febr. alts cee ia All. F a 
acuminate, acu “Or blunt, entire, chartaceous, 14-2 or often 3-4 in 
long, ee or beneath slightly and minutely appressed pubescent 
on the nerves; flowers middling-sized, pale rose-coloured, on very 
short appressed tawny-pubescent pedicels, subtended by an ovate- 
lanceolate, acute or acyminate, pubescent bract of 3-4 lin. length or 
larger, forming a tawny eas or densely puberulous bracted 
short opposite simple raceme on a very ue poe or ae 
sessile and aris m above the pau e fallen leaves 
; calyx bell-shaped-tubular, © ee F tawny p ae deg 
5-lobed ; ” petals 5, obovate-lanceolate, pecan 3-4 lin. long, rather 
blunt, sparingly pubescent outside ; stamens 10, long-exserted, with 
blue (2) anthers ; fruits unknown 
Has.—Rather frequent in the topes and mixed forests of Pegu and 
Martaban, also in meebo and open forests, but rare-—Fl. March-May.— 
s:1& 1.—SS.—petrophilous 
6. C. pilosum, Roxb.—A large woody climber, the branchlets 
and young shoots densely covered with rusty-coloured soft spreading 
hairs ; bark pretty smooth, dark-brown ; leaves from elliptically to 
oblong or ovate-lanceolate, on a very short thick rusty-pilose petiole 
sometimes almost sessile, acuminate, entire, chartaceous, 5-7 in 
nes glabrous, sometimes fringed, the midrib and nerves beneath 
3 to nearly 4 lin. long, densely appressed rusty pubescent, bell- 
| deieed, b-bed; petale’knese-obloug,-blat,. abot. 8 lini. ong 
appressed tawny pubescent outside, white; stamens long-exserted, 
_ anthers ase ; fruits about an inch long, ovate-oblong, puberu- 
— _ the chartaceous, broader than the diameter 
