Quisqualis. | COMBRETACER. 467 
Remarxs.—Wood uniformly brown, the heart-wood red-brown, heavy, close- 
grained, hard, strong, and durable; takes a fine polish. 050-57; bre os 
weight—262 pd.—Good for building | purposes et indoor-work ; cepodee to wate 
it soon decays. 
QUISQUALIS, L. 
Calyx-tube rather terete, very long produced beyond the oe 
ovary, see tons, the limb. 5-parted, small. Petals 5. Stam 
10; s ovate. Ovary 1-celled, with 3-4 pendulous pik oa 
style filiform, with a somewhat dilated. ce Fruit dry-coria- 
ceous, sharply 5-gonous or almost 5-winged, l-seeded. Cotyledons 
(occasionally 3) fleshy.—Scandent shrubs, with opposite or almost 
oppar's simple leaves. Flowers rather showy, in axillary or termi- 
“es spikes or racemes. 
1. Q. Indica, L.—Da-wai-hmine.—A ese vergreen wood 
climber, all younger parts more or less pubescent or villous ; ante 
oblong to ovate-oblong, on a short tawny or rusty tomentose or 
2 to 5 in. long; flowers conspicuous, first white, then changing into 
rose and deep red, supported by a bract, sessile, alternatin ing and 
distichous, forming short, tawny or rusty pubescent spikes in the 
axils of the leaves or at the end of the branchlets; bracts leafy, 
from ovate to linear-lanceolate, acuminate, usually pubescent, gra- 
dually smaller ad. narrower upwards ; -ealyx-tube 2 to nearly 3 in. 
long, puberulous, hairy inside at the throat; petals elliptically 
oblong, blunt or nearly so, about 4 an in. long or shorter or some- 
what longer, especially outside puberulous ; fruits more than an inch 
long, glossy, deeply furrowed and sharply 5-angular, the angles 
coriaceous and wing-like. 
Var. 1. genuina: bracts leafy, from ovate and lanceolate to 
linear-lanceolate ; petals oblong or linear-oblong. 
Var. 2. villosa (Q. vi/dosa, Roxb.) : bracts subulate to linear, 
— rigee inconspicuous; petals usually obovate and often almost 
notch 
“068 3. oxypetala: as former, but the petals broadly lanceolate 
and acute or nearly so. : 
Has.—Not unfrequent in the tropical and lower mixed ae of from Ava and 
Pegu down to Tenasserim ; var. o Ava, Kakhyen hills —Fl. March-Apr. 
CALYCOPTERIS, Lamk. 
| __ Calyx-tube elongate-turbinate, obtusely 5-gonus, the limb broadly 
bell-shaped, 5-cleft, much enlarging after flowering. Petals none. 
