462 LTiii. coMBEETACEa:. (0. B. Clarke.) {Lwmniizera. 



1. Xi. cocdnea, W. §• A. Prodr. 316; racemes dense terminal some- 

 times 2 or 3 forming a small corymb, petals scarlet i in. Miq. Fl. Ind. Sat. i. 

 pt. i. p. 606. L. littorea, Voigt. ; Kurz For. Fl. Brit. Burma, i. 469. L. pen- 

 tandra, Griff. Notul. iv. 684, and Ic. PI. Asiat. t. 644. Pyrrantlms littoreus. 

 Jack. Mai. Misc. ii. 57; Wall. Cat. 4018. 



MEKom; Griffith. Nicobabs; Kurz. Maiacca; Maingay, Griffith.— Dibtsib. 

 Malaya, North Australia, Polynesia. 



A small tree 20-40 ft. high. Leaves 2-3J in. aiamens 5-10, usually 7 ; twice 

 as long as the petals, filaments crimson. 



2. Ii. racemosa, Willd.; DC. Prodr. iii. 22; racemes axillary some- 

 what dense in flower 2-4 in. long in fruit, petals white very small. W. 8f A. 

 Prodr. 316 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 606 ; Dalz ^ Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 90 ; 

 Tulasne in Ann. So. Nat. Ser. iv. vol. vi. p. 103 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. Anal. Gen. 

 PI. xxi. ; Brand. For. Fl. 221; Kurz For. Fl. Brit. Burma i. 468. Pyrranthus 

 albus, Wall. Cat. 4019. Petaloma alternifolia, Boxl. Fl. Ind. ii. 372. Bm- 

 gxiiera madagascariensis, DC. Prodr. iii. 23. — Bheede Sort. Mai. vi. t. 37. 



On the coasts of ImiA, Ceylon and the Teansgangetic Peninsttla as on the 

 Andamans and Nicobaes (Kurz) ; general. — Disteib. Tropical Africa, Malaya, North 

 Australia and Polynesia, in the Mangrove swamps. 



A small tree 20-40 ft. high. Leaves usually 2-3 in. sometimes only 1 in. Stamens 

 sometimes 5, sometimes 10 (always 10 Kurz) about as long as the petals, filaments 

 white. Bacemes in fruit ascending. 



6. COIHBRETUnX, Linn. 



Large shrubs (except C. nanum) with long pendent or scandent branches,, 

 without spines (except C. spinescem). Leaves entire, petioled, opposite or more 

 seldom alternate or temate. ' Flowers polygamo-dioecious, often in panicled 

 spikes or racemes ; bracteoles small. Calyx-tuhe constricted above the ovary, 

 shortly or long produced, urceolate, funnel-shaped or tubular ; limb 4-5-lobed, 

 deciduous. Petals as many as the calyx-lobes (0 in C. apetalum) placed on the 

 calyx-limb. Stamens twice as many as the petals, inserted in two series with 

 them. Ovary inferior, l-ceUed ; slyle 1, subulate, simple ; ovules 2-5, pendent 

 from the top of the Cell. Fruit with 4r-5 wings angles or ridges, dry, generally 

 indehiscent. Seed 1 ; cotyledons plaited or flat, in a few species convoluted. — 

 DisiKiB. Species 120, common in the ttopics of America, Africa, and Asia^ 

 also in South Africa, but not in Australia or Polynesia. 



SecTi I. Foivrea. Flowers 5-merous. Fruit 5-winged or 5-ridged. 



* Fruit with 5 memln'anous wings. 



1. C. decandruxn, Roxb. Cor. PI. t. 59 ; leaves oblong suddenly acumi- 

 nate nearly glabrous on both surfaces when adult, panicles large terminal, young 

 ovary densely viUose, calyx hardly constricted above the ovary urceolate co- 

 vered with short hairs within and without. Boxb. Hart. Beng. 28 and Fl. Ind.^ 

 ii. 232; G. Don in Trans. Linn. Soc. xv. 437; Wall. Cat. 4009; Brand. For. 

 Fl. 221 ; Kurz For. Fl. Brit. Burma i. 460. 0. Roxburghii, Sprmg. Syst. ii. 

 331. Poivrea Roxburghii, DC. Prodr. iii. 18; W. ^ A. Podr. 317. Pen- 

 taptera Roxburghii, Tulasne in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. iv. vol. vi. 84. 



Bengal, abundant, alt. 0-3000 ft. North Deccan plateau very common, less 

 common South. Noeth West Peovikces nearly to the Punjab. Tenassebim and 

 the Andamans. 



