468 COMBRETACES. [ Lumnitzera. 
Stamens 10, in two rows, short, the filaments subulate; anthers 
didymous. Ovary 1- celled, with three suspended ovules ; ; style 
subulate with a simple stigma. Fruit 5-gonous and 5-furrowed, 
crowned by the five spreading chartaceous large calyx-lobes, l- 
seeded. Cotyledons convolute.—Scandent shrubs, with opposite 
simple leaves. Flowers in short axillary racemes often collected into 
rminal panicles. 
Stamens } the length of the acute calyx-lobes . . . C. nutans. 
Stamens as long as the bluntish calyx-lobes . ; . O. floribunda. 
1. C. nutans, Kz.— Kywot-nay-nway. — aves peandent shrub, 
tomentose petiole, acuminate, entire, 3-5 in. long, chartaceous, above 
minutely, beneath shortly and usually densely, tawny or brownish 
pubescent, and while young almost villous; flowers about 4 in. in 
diameter, — gre h green, supported by a small thickly vil- 
acute; stamens 10, the longer ones about 4-4 as long as the calyx- 
lobes; fruits small, about 4 in. long, villous, 5-angled and furrowed 
between the obtuse angles, crowned by the enlarged bell-shaped 
calyx-limb of nearly } an inch in a 
Has.—Frequent all over r Burma from Chittagong and Ava down to Tenas- 
serim, ee in a mixed forests and along river banks in vig 
etc., up to 3,000 ft. elevation.—Fl. Jan. -March ; Fr. Feb.-May.—l—S8S.= 
LUMNITZERA, Willd. 
_ Calyx-tube elongate, tapering at both ends, ease with two 
bractlets adnate up to the middle of the tube; limb bell-shaped, 
equal or unequal, 5-lobed, persistent. Petals 5, sae Sta- 
- mens 5 or id; filame nts filiform-subulate ; anthers cordate. Ovary 
l-celled with 2 to 5 suspended ovules ; style filiform, with a sim- 
ple stigma. Fruit woody, compressed and obtusely angular, crowned 
by the persistent calyx-limb, 1-seeded. Cotyledons convolute.— 
Trees or shrubs, with alternate simple fleshy-coriaceous leaves. 
Flowers small, in short axillary or terminal racemes or spikes. 
Flowers white ; stamens 10, about as long as the petals . racemosa. 
Flowers crimson ; some es twice as long as the petals aA littorea. 
