Combretum.| ~ COMBRETACER. 463 
Hap.—Pegu, above Rangoon (Cleghorn) ; Tenasserim, from Moulmein down 
to Mergui.—F. January. 
x * Flowers 4-merous. Stamens 8. 
long-exserted, the anthers yellow or orange ; fruits about 1}-in. 
long, broadly oblong, glabrous, 4-winged, the wings semi-oblong, 
chartaceous, broader than the diameter of the nut. 
- Has.—Common in all leaf-shedding forests, especially the mixed ones, all 
over Burma and adjacent provinces down to Tenasserim,—Fl. Jan.-March ; 
Fr. May.—L—SS. = a. 
o. &. 
shrub, Side tortanas buttressed stems as thick as a man’s thigh, all 
softer parts covered with minute rusty scales ; bark about 4 an in 
thick, corky and lenticellate, dark-brown ; cut brown ; leaves oppo- 
site, from broadly ovate-oblong to oblong-lanceolate, on a 3-4 lin. 
long lepidote petiole, apiculate, entire, almost coriaceous, 5-6 in. 
long or sometimes much smaller, above sparingly lepidote-dotted, 
dot 
und larger one at the end of the branches ; calyx densely coppery- 
ved, densely 
hirsute at the throat, 4-toothed ; petals 4, obovate-lanceolate, 
acute, longer than the calyx-teeth ; fruits broadly oblong, glabrous, 
nearly 14 in. long, 4-winged, the wings chartaceous, semi-oblong, 
broader than the diameter of the nut. 
Has.— i especially the low, but also the mixed, forests 
een Sg sag ne peso ng March-Apr. ; Fr. C.S, 
and May-June.—l.—SS. = Dil. SiS. 
Remarxs,—Wood rather light, coarse, fibrous, and porose, pale-brown. 
9. C. Chinense, Roxb., hardly of Don.—An evergreen large 
woody climber with dark-brown and rather smooth branches, the 
