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GENUS VI. COMBRETUM. 
@ectandria Monogynia:. Sex: Syst: 
Deriv. A name given by Pliny to a climbing plant. 
Gey. Car. Shrubs or trees more or less scandent: leaves op- 
posite, entire: spikes terminal and axillary, sometimes panicled: 
calyx funnel-shaped, 4-lobed, deciduous: petals 4, inserted between 
the lobes of the calyx : stamens in two rows, four opposite the petals 
and inserted higher up and longer than the others: ovary 2-5-ovul- 
ed: style exserted, acute: fruit 4-winged, t-celled, 1-seeded, inde- 
hiscent. 
(1) C. ovativorium. (Roxd. ) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. I. p. 317.—Roxb. fi. Ind. IL. p. 226. 
Syn. C. Heyneanum, Wall.—C. albidum, Don. in Linn. Soe, 
Trans. XV. p. 429.——C. Roxburghii, G. Don. 1. c. 
Engrao. Hook. Bot. Mise. IIE. t. 22. 
Srec. CHar. Climbing: leaves ovate or elliptical, obtuse or 
slightly acute, roundish at the base, paler beneath: terminal spikes 
panicled, short, oblong or alntost globose: rachis and calyx pubes- 
cent: bracts small, scale-like:.limb of the calyx with a hairy ring 
below the insertion of the stamens: lobes triangular-ovate, reflexed : 
petals elliptic-oblong, retuse, about the length of the calyx-seg- 
yaents: wings. of the fruit semicireular: flowers small, yellowish- 
white. 
Coromandel. Tanjore. Conca jungles. Guzerat. Flowering 
in the hot season. 
(2) C. Wicnrranum. (Wall. ) 
Ident. W. & A. prod. ¥. p. 317. ° 
Syn. C. laxum, Rozd. A. Ind. Il. p. 231. 
Engrav. Wight’s Icon. t. 227.—-Rheede Mal. VIL. t. 23. 
_ Spec. Cuar. Climbing: leaves elliptic-obovate: usually with a 
short acumination, coriaceous, shining above; spikes axillary, on 
longish peduncles, longer than the leaves, lax: rachis and calyx 
ubescent: bracts obsolete, or resembling minute tubercles: tube 
of the calyx much longer than the ovary and with a hairy ring below 
the insertiot of the stamens: segments acute, teeurved: petals 
emarginate, about half the length of the caly¢ine-segments: flowers 
~ yellowish. 
Hilly parts of the Concan. Peninsula. Flowering in December 
and J. anuary. 
(8) C. norunpirotium. (Roxb.) 
Ident, Roxb. fi, Ind. IL p. 226. 
