IHigera. | COMBRETACER. 469 
fleshy-coriaceous, almost veinless, smooth and glossy, 14-24 in. 
long ; spikes axillary, solitary, — simple, 6-12-flowered, about 
as long as es leaves or shorter, the peduncle compressed ; flowers 
sessile, small, white, supported ce a very minute basal bract ; calyx- 
teeth small ; petals oblong, spreading, afterwards recurved ; stamens 
10, the alternating ones somewhat longer and about the length of 
the petals ; drupe about 3 in. long, compressed-ovate-oblong, taper- 
ing into a narrow furrowed tube crowned with the calyx-limb, 
fibrous-woody and glossy. 
a | requent in the littoral es, Bon ae the tidal ones, and also in 
the mod a all Lee the s m an down to Tenasserim 
and the Andamans.—Fl. H SS.—Sal. 
Remarxs.—Wood strong and durable, useful for posts and other purposes 
in house-building. 
2. Ek ‘itorea, Voigt.—An evergreen tree (20—40+ (?) +2 
—4),in all parts agreeing with the een but the petals are 
intemal crimson, and the stamens (5-10, usually 7) are about 
twice as long as the petals, the filaments very "dlbhdes and crimson. 
“2 ge .—Southern Tenasserim, in mangrove swamps.—Fl. Fr. Sept.—SS.—= 
ILLIGERA, Bl. 
Flowers hermaphrodite. Calyx-tube narrow-ovoid, constricted 
beyond the ovary, the limb 5-parted, deciduous, valvate. Stamens 
5, epigynous, alternating with as many glands ; filaments subulate- 
filiform, furnished with two spatulate or tubular staminodes at 
Scandent ene with jibcraate $-foliolate leaves. Flowers sub- 
tended by 1 to 3 bractlets, small or middling-sized, forming lax 
eee cymes. 
BI.—A large wets climber he terete 
cori 
ceous, 24-3 in. long, Sins ME quite glabrous or slightly 
Siliowoit on the nerves beneath, y net-veined ; flowers rather 
small, white, supported by a small lanceolate tomentose bract 
at the base of the very short, thick, wept ad gop (often with 
es or three smaller bractlets on the Pp itself), in ae 
_ tawny tomentose or puberulous foe forming Phtiger, axillary, and 
