460 LYiii. coMBRETACBiE. (C. B. Clarke.) IQuisqualis. 



2. Q. densiflora, Waa. Cat. 4011 ; tube of the calyx alrove the ovary 

 ^— I in., calyx-teeth lanceolate-subulate, fruit distinctly winged. Miq. Fl. 

 Ind. Sat. i. pt. i. 611. S. confertum. Jack in Hook. Comp. Bat. Mag. i. 155 ; 

 Miq. 1. c. 611. 



Pekang ; Wallich. MouiMBnf ; Falconer. Malacca ; Griffith. Sincapoee ; Lobh. 



Leaves 4-6 in., nearly glabrous ; petiole |-J in., rusty-pubescent. Spikes dense, 

 falvo-pubescent ; bracteoles ^-f in., lanceolate, pubescent, subpersistent. Petals 

 less than J in., scarlet. Fruit 1 by f in., shining, quadrangular, oblong ; the wings 

 narrow but distinct, papery. — This species seems congeneric with Comhretitm pUosum 

 above. 



3. Q, malabarica, Bedd. Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 155 ; calyx-tube above the 

 ovary f in., calyx-teeth lanceolate-subulate, petals J in. and more. 



Deccan Pbnihsxtia ; Carcoor Ghat, Wynaad, alt. 1500 ft., Beddome. 



A large climber, nearly glabrous, the petioles becoming permanent as rigid spines. 

 Leaves 4-5 in.; petiole f in., glabrous. Spikes somewhat few-flowered, minutely 

 grey-pubendous or pubescent ; bracteoles J in., linear. Petals pink. Fruit unknown. 

 — Much more glabrous than Q. densiflora, the bracteoles much smaller, the petals 

 much longer. 



7. XIiXiXGERA, Blume. 



Scandent shrubs. Leaves alternate, petioled, with three entire petioluled 

 leaflets. Flowers in elongate lax peduncled cymes ; bracteoles 1-3 at the base 

 of each flower. CoZy^-tube shortly constricted above the ovary ; limb of 5 

 valvate oblong deciduous lobes. Petals 5, valvate, oblong, alternate with and 

 as long as the calyx-lobes. Stamens 5, epigynous, filament near the base carry- 

 ing on each side a staminode ; anthers dehiscing by lateral valves. Ovary 1- 

 celled ; style 1, filiform, ending in a dilated undulate sinuated stigma ; ovule 1, 

 pendulous from the apex of the cell. Fruit broadly 2-4-winged (2-wiiiged in 

 the Indian species known) the wings veined. Seed with plane-convex (not 

 convoluted) cotyledons. — Distrib. Species 7 or 1, extending from Khasia to 

 Singapore, Malaya and the Philippines : and one aberrant species in Angola 

 having 5 leaflets. 



1. X. Coryzadenia, Meissn. in DC. Prodr. xv. pt. i. 251 ; leaflets pubes- 

 cent on the nerves beneath fulvo-pilose on the midrib above punctate at least 

 while young, staminodes sub-peteloid hooded and enfolded not emarginate. 

 I. appendicuiata, Blume; Kurz For. Fl. Brit. Burma i. 469. Ooryzadenia 

 trifolmta, Crriff'. Notul. iv. 356. 



Meegui ; Griffith. Tenasseeim, Selfer (Kew Distrib. No. 4341 partly). Anda- 

 MAKS ; Kiure. 



Stem striate, nearly glabrous. Petiole 2-4 in. petiolules ^-1 in. (variable as in 

 most of the species), more or less fulvo-pHose ; leaflets 2-4 in., oblong or broad- 

 elliptic, suddenly acuminate, usually cordate at base but sometimes acute ; the lower 

 leaves often much larger and their leaflets nearly orbicular. Cymes often 6-8 in. ; 

 bracteoles minute, ovate, and the calyx without minutely pubescent. Fruit 1 by 2^ 

 in. including the wings, softly minutely pubescent. — Kurz (in Jowm. As. Soc. 1877, 

 pt. ii. 69) unites the two species of Meissner, viz., /. Coryzadmia and L appendicuiata. 



2. X. Kurzil, C. B. Clarke; leaflets glabrous epunctate very coriaceous 

 with an incurved cartilaginous margin, staminodes subpetaloid hooded and 

 enfolded not emarginate, fruit 2^-3 J in. wide 2-winged. 



