Lll. COMBRETACEJE. 



I. COMBRETUM SERIES. 



The flowers of Gombreta ' (fig. 226-228) are liermaphrodite or 

 polygamo-dioecious. In certain species they are pentamerous, notably 



Comiretum {Poivna) cocoiruum. 



Fig. 226. Flower (f). 



Fig; 227. Diagram. 



Fig. 228. Long. sect, of flower. 



in those of which the genera Poivrea^ and Cacouda^ have been 

 made. The receptacle has the form of a very deep sac, narrow and 

 elongate/ insensibly attenuated towards the upper part and there 



' Comh-etumi Lcefl. Ic. 308. — L. Gen. n. 475. 

 — GiERTN. Fruct. i. 176, t. 36. — Lamk. Bict. i. 

 734 ; Suppl. ii. 229 ; III. t. 282.— DC. Prodr. iii. 

 18 ; Mem: Combret. t. 5.— Tdep. Diet. Sc. Nat. 

 Atl. t. 221.— Spaoh, Suit, a Buffon, iv. 308.— 

 Endl." Gen. n. 6087. — Payek, Fam. Nat. 96. — 

 Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 452. — Aetia Adans. Fam. des 

 PI. ii. 84. — Forsffordia Velloz. Fl. Flwm. 152 ; 

 iv. t. 13. — Chrysostaohys Pohl, PI. Bras. ii. 65, 

 t. 143. — Emhryogonia Bi,. Mm. Lugd.-Bat. ii. 

 122. — Sheadendron Beiitol. III. Plant. Mozamh. 

 Mem. Acad. Bologn. (1850) 12, t. 4.— Kl. Pet. 

 Moss. Bot. 74, t. 14. — Car. Joum. Linn. iSoc. iv. 

 161.— Calopyxis TuL. Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 4, vi. 

 86. — Bureava H. Bn. Adansonia, i. 71 (ex M. 

 Akg. DC. Prodr. xv. p. ii. 1258. — Argyrodendron 



Kl. {Pet. Moss. Bot. 101) is, according to Muel- 

 ler n'AuGOViB (DC. Prodr. xv. p. ii. 700), by 

 one of its species {A. Petersii, Kl.) syn. with 

 Combretwm. 



2 CoMMEKS. ex Dup.-Th. Obs. Plant. Afr. 

 Austt. 28. — DC. MSm. t. 4; Prodr. iii. 17. — 

 Pevrcea Commeks. ex J. Gen. 230. — Gonocarpus 

 Ham. Prodr. Fl. Ind. Occ. 39. 



3 AuBL. Guian. i. 450. — J. Gen. 300. — Lamk. 

 III. t. 359.— DC. Prodr. iii. 22 (part).— Spach, 

 loc. cit. 315.— Endl. Gen. n. 6088.— B. H. Gen. 

 688. — Rambergera Scop. Introd. n. 276. — Sam- 

 bergia Neck. Elem. n. 830. — Schousbcea W. Spec. 

 578 (not SoHCM. et Thonn.). 



* Often with 4-6 salient angles. 



