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on one side, and the stamens are more decidedly incurved in the bud. 

 The androecium is diplostemonous or sometimes formed of a number 

 of stsmiens a little above ten ; a fact occasionally observed in the 

 Combreta proper. On the other hand there is impoverishment of 



Quisgualis indica. 



Fig. 230. Flower (5). 



Fig. 229. Floriferoua branch. 



Fig. 231. Long. 

 sect, of flower. 



the androecium in Thiloa,'^ the apetalous and tetramerous flower of 

 which sometimes has eight stamens ; four of them may be wanting 

 or remain sterile. All these plants, however, appear to us inseparable 

 from the genus Combretimi, which, thus constituted, comprises about 

 a hundred and thirty species,^ generally shrubby, not unfrequently 

 sarmentose and climbing, with opposite leaves, rarely verticillate or 



described as fleshy. However, it is finally ' 'Eics.'l, Regemb. Flora (1866), n. 10; Mart. 



quite dry and 5-angular, like that of so many Fl. Bras. Combret. 103, t. 27. 

 other Gombreteai, and it also presents incomplete ^ H. B. Fl. JEquin, 1. 132 ; Adans. xi. 379. — 



lines of dehiscence. H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Spec. vii. 138. — A. S. H. 



