306 XLIX. RHIZOPHOEACEiE [CaralUa 



oiis, glossy, elliptiCj sometimes obovate, entire (serrulate in Cor. PL), blade 

 3™6, petiole \ in. long, sec. n. numerous arching. Fl. creamy-wliite, sessile, 

 in axillary short peel uncled cymes. 



Snbhimal. tract, Nepal, Sikkim, ascpndiiig to 4,000 ft. Assam, Kbasi hills, Cliittagoiig. 

 Singhbhtim. Biinna, Upper and Lower. Western Peninsula, Nortliern Circars. On 

 the west side from the Konkan soixtliwards. Fl. Oct.-April. Aerial roots (Gamble, 

 Ind. Timb. Ed. II. 335).— Ceylon. China. Malay Penins. and Arcliip. to Australia. 

 2, C. lancesefolia, Eoxb ; 'Wight Ic. t. 604. Knrz F. Fl i. 451. Upper Tenasserim. 

 L. thinly coriaceous, serrate, blade of petals broad, crenulate, embracing the stamens. 

 Fr. 2-3-seeded. 



Gynotroclies axillaris, Blume. Tenasserim (Knrz). A small evergreen glabrous tree, 

 1. coriaceous, glossy, strongly net-veined. Fl. polygamous, small, yellowish-green, in 

 axillary fascicles. Calyx iree^ 4-5-lohed nearly to the base, petals clawed, fimbriate, 

 stamens 8 or 10. Ovary free, base only adnate to calyx, 3-6-celled, ovules 4 in each cell. 

 Fr. a small globose, many-seeded berry. 



Weihea zeylanica, Baill ; Bedd. FL Sylv. 1. 194. Ghats of South Tinnevelli and South 

 Travancore. Ceylon. A small tree, 1. thin, almost membranous, elliptic-lanceolate, 

 2-3 in. long, stipules oblong, ciliate. Fl, white, axillary, solitaiy, or 2-3 together, buds 

 enclosed in 2 thick rounded ciliate bracts. Calyx free, cut nearly to the base into 5 

 lanceolate densely silky segments, -J in. long. Petals ouneate, apex deeply laciniate, 

 stamens 30, hypogynous, ovary free, 3-celled, 2 ovules in each cell. Capsule fleshy, septi- 

 cidally dehiscent, seeds 4-6, embryo straight in the axis of endosperm. 



Blepliaristemma corymbosum, Wall. 5 Bedd. Manual t. xiv. Western Peninsula, from 

 South Kanara southwards. A tree attaining 100 ft. in Travancore, j^oung shoots, 

 petioles and inflorescence pubescent. L. membranous, crenate, blade 3-6, petiole J in. 

 long. Fl. polygamous, J in. long, calyx hairy, free, campanulate, lobes 4, triangular, 

 petals twice the length of calyx, hairy, tips laciniate, stamens 8. Ovar\" free, 3-celled. 



Order L. COMBRETACEtE. den. PL i. 683. 



(Brandis in Engler u. PrantL iii. 7. 106.) 



Ti^ees or shrubs, leaves simple, entire, without stipules. FL bracteate, 

 usually sessile, bisexual, rai*ely polygamons, regular with a zygomorphic ten- 

 dency. Calyx-tube adnate to ovary and produced beyond it, free portion 4-5- 

 cleft, segments valvate. Petals wanting, or small, inserted on the edge of 

 calyx-tube between its segments. Stamens as many as calyx-segments or 

 twice their number, inserted inside the calyx, anthers dehiscing longitudinally. 

 Ovary inferior, 1-celled, ovules 2-5, rarely more, on large funicles, pendulous 

 from the apex of the cell. Fr. generally angled or winged, seed 1, without 

 albumen. Embryo straight, radicle superior, cotyledons oily, generally con- 

 volute. 



In this, as well as in the allied Orders, Mhizophoracece, Mijrtaceoi and Bosacece, I follow 

 the practice of most English text-books in describing the calyx as adnate to the ovary. 

 In reality, however, what is here called calyx should be regarded as the continiiation of 

 the axis (pedicel), which is hollow, enclosing the ovary, bearing sepals at the apex, here 

 called calyx-segments. What in these orders usually is described as the calyx, 

 bears bracteoles in some cases, and consequently ought to be regarded as an axial organ. 

 (Lumnifzera and other genera.) This was the view taken by me, when describing 

 thmhretacecB for Engler u. Prantl's work. 



Combretacese have phloem on the inner side of the wood-cylinder, at the circumference 

 of the pith, either forming a continuous ring (Terminalia, several species of Gomhref iini) 

 or in distinct masses. This interior phloem either consistsof thin-walled elements only 

 (Terminalia, Anogelssii^), or is accompanied by thick-walled bast-fibres (species of 

 Comfibretum), The medullary rays as a rule are narrow, Qomhrettim decmidnmi, how- 

 ever, has two classes of rays, broad rays, consisting of many layers of cells, and narrow 

 rays, consisting of one layer only. Apart from vessels and rays the wood mainly 

 consists of wood fibres ', but a few species ( Terminalia hialata and hehrica) have broad 



