Com'breium.'] lviii. cOMBEETiCEai. (0. B.> Clarke.) 459 



scarcely pubescent, calyx-teeth triangular acuminate reflexed, buds ovate very 

 acute. 



Malacca, Maingay No. 1681. — Disteib. Sumatra. 



Leaves 3-5 in., punctulate on both surfaces ; petiole ^ in. CaVyx with >• ring of 

 hairs at its base ■within but not densely filled with long hair. Fruit 1 in. and nearly 

 as broad, brown, nearly glabrous. — This species so exactly coincides with C. esctenswm 

 in its flowers and fruits that it may be doubted whether it is specifically distinct.- 

 The leaves appear smaller and thinner, and the dense heads of flowers at the ends of 

 the branches of a large panicle give it a very different aspect. 



EXCLUDED AlfD DODETFUL SPECIES. 



CoMBEEinM: sp. 2. Griff. Notul. iv. 682 is probably one of the large Termi- 

 nalias. 



CoMBBETUM (Sect. Poivrea) semi-adnatum, Hemrok ^ Muell. Arg. Ohs. Bot. 244 ; 

 leaves ternate short-petioled elliptic acute at first simply pubeiulous, racemes axil- 

 lary long-peduncled dense, flowers long pedicelled, braeteoles adnate to the pedicels 

 for half- their length. "In the East Indies." — This must be very distinct from aU 

 the known Indian species' by its long-stalked ovary ; otherwise it might be C. tri- 

 foliatum. 



CoMBBETtTM OVALE, Br. See under 2. pilosum. 



6. QTTXSQUAIiIS, Linn. 



Rambling subscandent large shrubs. Leaves opposite, oblong or obovate, 

 acuminate, entire. Flowers in short spikes, axillary and terminal, white or red. 

 Cdlyx-tvihei prolonged long and slender above the ovary, deciduous ; limb 6-fld. 

 Petals 5. Stamens 10, short. Ovary 1-ceUed ; style filiform, somewhat adherent 

 to the calyx-tube, stigma subcapitate ; ovules 3-4, pendulous from the apex of 

 the cell. Fruit dry, coriaceous, 5-angledi or 5-wlnged, subindehiscent. Seed 1, 

 cotyledons (occasionally 3, Kurz) not convolute. — Disteib.' Species 4, tropical ; 

 3 Indian, 1 African. 



Known from Conmhretum Sect. Poivrea by the elongate calyx-tube, and from Chm- 

 bretum Sect. Quisgwdaides by the 5-merous flowers and the fruit. 



1. Q. indica, Linn. Sp. PI. 556 ; calyx-tube above the ovary lJ-2^ in., 

 calyx-teeth triangular acute not acuminate, fruit with very sharp angles scarcely 

 winged. Lour. Fl. Coehinch. 836; Lamk. 111. t. 357; DC- Prodr. iii. 23; 

 Roxh. Fl. Ind. ii. 427 ; Wall. Cat. 4010 ; Wight 111. t. 92 ; W. ^ A. Prodr. 318; 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 610; Brandis For. Fl. 220. Q. viUosa, Roxh. Fl. 

 Ind. ii. 426 ; Spreng. Syst. ii. 831; DC. Prodr. iii. 28. Q. glabra, Burm. Fl. 

 ' Ind. t. 28. Q. pubescens, Burm. Fl. Ind. t. 35. Q. ebracteata,- Beauv. Fl. 

 Owar. t. 35. Q. Loureiri, O. Don Oen. Syst. ii. 667. Q. sinensis, Lindl. in 

 Bot. Reg. N.S. vol. xxx. 1. 16. Q. longiJlora, Presl Epimel. 216. Quisqualis sp., 

 Griff. Notul. iv. 683. — Rumph. Herl. Amboin. v. t. 38. 



Throughout India, alt. 0-1000 ft., cultivated : wild probably in the Tbansoangb- 

 IIC PBisfiNSULA. — Disteib. Cultivated generally in the tropics, wild in Malaya. 



Leqves_ii^-i nearly glabrous or in var. villosa shortly pubescent beneath ; petiole 

 |-J in., rnaty villous as are the innovations. SpiJees somewhat dense; bratteoles 

 f in,, usually lanceolate, but variable, generally subpersistent. Petals rose or 

 soj^et, oblong or nearly round. Fruit f-1^ by scarcely J in., glabrous, black, very- 

 acute at the top. 



