COMBRETACEjE. 27B 



1. COMBRETUM, L. 



Calyx-limb 4(-5)-lobed or dentate, deciduous. Petals 4 (-5). Stamens 8 (-10). 

 Achenium 4(-5)-winged. Cotyledons fleshy, plaited. — Leaves umally opposite, quite en- 

 tire ; tlowers in spikes {or racemes). 



1. C. Jacquini, Gr. Scandeut; branchlets cylindrical, rusty-pubescent above ; leaves 

 opposite, oval or obloug, glabrous ; spikes cylindrical, compound : bracts deciduous, filiform, 

 half as long as the pubescent ovary ; calyx-limb cyathiform, not so long as the tube : teeth 

 minute ; petals 4, roundish, glabrous, exserted : their diameter almost as long as the length 

 of the calyx-limb ; stamens thrice as long as the calyx-limb ; achenium oblong ; wings as 

 broad as its transverse diameter. — C. laxum, Jacq. 1763, Sw. I {non Lcefl. 1758, et Aull.). 

 C. variabile, PI. Spruce. ! {an Mart. ?). C. obtusifoUum, Zich. ex ie. Miq. Surin. t. 16 : 

 apparently a form with spathulate, blunt leaves. — An unarmed, high vine; leaves variable ; 

 flowers yellowish-white ; calyx-tube 1'", stamens 2"', achenium 8'" long. — Hab. West 

 Indies !, Sw. ; Jamaica {Ma<f.), in thickets, Westmoreland ; [Haiti ; Honduras !, Panama !, 

 equat. Brazil!]. 



3. C. eriopetaluiu, G. Bon. Branchlets cylindrical, puberulous above ; leaves opposite, 

 elliptical-oblong, glabrous ; spikes cylindrical, lax, often compound : bracts subpersistent, 

 linear, nearly as long as the glabrescent ovary ; calyx-limb cyathiform, as long as the tube : 

 teeth distinct ; petals 5, oblong, villous, exserted, as long as the calyx-limb, thrice the length 

 of the calyx-teeth ; stamens thrice ax long as the petals ; achenium oblong-linear ; wings 5, 

 broader than its transverse diameter. — BC. in Mem. Qen. 4. t. 5 A. — Poivrea, DC. : not 

 having seen the embryo, I refer it to Comiretum, , upon Planchon's authority.' — ^A trailing 

 shrub, nearly allied to the preceding; calyx -tube J'", stamens 2'", achenium 5"'-6"' long. 

 —Hab. S. ViQcent !, Guild. ; Trinidad 1, Pd. ; [Cuba, Haiti]. 



3. O. \axam, Zcejl. Branchlets usually tetragonal, pubescent above or glabrate ; leaves 

 opposite, oval-oblong or elUptical, glabrous ; spikes large, half-cylindrical, simple, ebracteate : 



flowers turned to one side, lepidote ; calyx-limb turbinate, half as long as the tube, i-lobed, 

 internally villous : lobes deltoid ; petals small, eUiptical,. glabrous, exceeded a little by the 

 calyx-lobes ; stamens 6-8 times as long as the calyx-limb ; achenium " oval-oblong." — 

 Awbl. t. 137 i Jacq. Amer. Pict. t. 260. /. 36. — C. secundum, Jacq. C. rotundifolium, 

 Pich. C. elegans, Kth. C. Aubletii, DC. C. micropetalum, DC. C. guianense, Miq. !, 

 C. punctatum, Steud. / — ^An unarmed, high, scandent or arborescent shrub ; leaves blunt or 

 pointed ; flowers red or yellow, with red filaments ; calyx-tube 3'", stamens 9"'-13"' long. 

 — Hab. Trinidad !, Lockh., Sch., Cr. ; [Venezuela, New Granada, Guiana 1], 



2. CAOOUCIA, Aubl. 



Calyx-limb campanulate, shortly 5-fid, deciduous. Petals 5. Stamens 10-15. Drape 

 pentagonal. Cotyledons fleshy. — Scandent shrubs ; leaves opposite, quite entire ; flowers 

 crimson, large, in an elongated terminal raceme. 



4. C. coccinea, Aubl. leaves elliptical, glabrous or pubescent on the nerves beneath : 

 petioles and racemes rusty-tomentose ; bracts lance(date-linear, equalling or exceeding the 

 shortly pedicellate calyx-tube ; petals elliptical, shortly exserted ; stamens twice as long as the 

 calyx-tube ; drupe " large, obtuse-angled-elUptical." — Aubl. t. \ 79. — The leaves, said to be 

 alternate, are opposite in our specimens, as in those described in Meyer's PI. -Esseq., but 

 the bracts alternate. Raceme 1', pedicels l"'-2"', calyx-tube 3'", calyx-limb 6'" long. — 

 Hab. Trinidadi, Pd.; [Guiana!]. 



3. CHUNCOA, P«». 



{Chicharronia, Pii>h. Cui.) 



Calyx-limb cyathiform, 5-fld, deciduous. Petals 0. Stamens 10. Samara laterally 

 3-winged : the inferior and two superior ribs less developed. Cotyledons . . . . — Trees or 

 shrubs ; leaves alternate, quite entire ; flowers in spikes. 



5. C. arbuscula, Gr. Branchlets pubescent; leaves oblong or lanceolate-oblong, pubes- 

 cent, at length glabrate, chartaceous, approximate at the top of the branchlets : petiole long, 



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