S12 L. COMBEETACE-^E [Termincdla 



^namalais, Javadib and other liill ranges in the southern portion of the Peninsula. 

 PL Aug.-Dec, fr. H. S. Hardly ever q[Uite leafless. 



16. T. myriocarpa, Heurck & Mnell. Arg. ; Kurz F. El. i. 457. 



A very large evergreen tree, heartwood brown, mottled with dark streaks, 

 takes a beautiful polish, young skoots and inflorescence rusty-pubescent. L, 

 from a rounded base elliptic-oblong, blade 4-12, petiole tbick, \'-\ in. long, 

 with one or two prominent cylindric glands at the top, sec. n. numerous, parallel. 

 El. small, in long slender spikes, arranged in ample terminal panicles, bracts 

 very short, calyx nearly glabrous within, fr. ^ in. long, 3-cornered, the two 

 lateral angles expanded into wings. A very handsome tree when in fl. or fr., 

 its pendent boughs loaded with pink panicles or yellow seeds (Gfamble List 39). 



Sikkim, ascending to 5,000 ft. PL Oct.-Nov. Bhutan, Assam, Khasi hills, Manipiir. 

 Upper Burma, Kurz. 



2. COMBRETUM, Linn. ; El. Brit. Ind. ii. 452. 



Shrubs, sometimes trees, genei^ally climbing, 1. petiolate, opposite in some 

 species, whorled, rarely alternate. El. bisexual or polygamous. Calyx-tube 

 more or less constricted above the ovary, limb campanulate or funnel-shaped, 

 4r-5-cleft, deciduous. Petals small, inserted between the calyx-lobes. Stamens 

 8 or 10, generally biseriate, those of the lower series episepalous, filaments 

 slender, usually long exserted, anthers didymous. Ovary 1-celled, style subu- 

 late, ovules 2-6, pendulous. Er. coriaceous, 4-6-ridged or winged, seed one. 

 Embryo straight, radicle small, superior. Species 260, in the tropical and sub- 

 tropical regions of the old and new world, the majority in Africa. Not in 

 Australia, nor in Polynesia. 



A. EL pentamerous, fr. with 5 membranou.s wings or prominent ridges. 



1. C. decandrum, Roxb. Cor. PL t. 59.; Brandis E. EL 221. Yern, 

 Boddu^ Tel. ; Thcanaka-niDh Burm. 



A large climbing shrub, stem cylindric, bark greyish-white, corky, branchlets, 

 young 1. and inflorescence clothed with soft silky hairs. L. opposite, nearly 

 glabrous when full grown, elliptic-oblong, blade 3-6, petiole f in. EL in large 

 terminal leafy panicles, the floral leaves (bracts) large and conspicuous, turning 

 creamy white. Er. 1 in. long, 5 broad equal wings. 



Subhimalayan tract, from the Jumna eastwards, Sikkim to 2,000 ft. Assam, Chxtta- 

 gong. Burma. Behar, Central ProYinces, Northern Circars and the northern Deccan. 

 Fl. Dec-March. 2. C. pyrifolium, Kurz, Pegu. Imperfectly known. 



3. C. pilosum, Boxb. (i^robahly including 0. ovale^ Kurz F. Fi. 462.) Kijef tef nwe, 

 Burm. Silhet, Chittagong. Burma, Upper and Lower. A large climber, branchlets, 

 petioles and inflorescence densely rusty-villous, the persistent base of petioles often 

 more or less spinescent, 1. hairy beneath, fl. in short racemes, massed together in dense 

 cylindrical panicles, calyx rusty-villous outside, J--J in. long, slightly constricted above 

 the ovary, free portion infundibuliform, more than twice the length of ovarj". Fr. 1-1 J 

 in. long, winged. 4. C. kacMuense, King & Prain. Kachin hills near Sima. A large 

 scandent shrub, not spinescent, branchlets, petioles, underside of leaves and inflor- 

 escence rusty-pubescentj fl. in axillary, simple or sparingly branched lax racemes, 

 pedicels very short, calyx J in. long, not constricted above ovary, 



5. C. apetalum, Wall. Dry country of the Irawaddi valley, from Prome upwards. A 

 straggling deciduous shrub or small tree, scrambling on to other trees. FL in long 

 slender spikes, arranged in axillary panicles, bracts lanceolate, as long as ovary, rachis 

 of spikes as well as bracts, ovary and calyx densely clothed with white-silvery haii-s. 

 Free part of calyx-tube campanulate, segments triangular, acuminate, reflexed. Fr. 

 winged | in. long. 



6. C. trifoliatum, Yent, Burma, Upper and Lower, common on moist ground, 1. often 

 in whorls of three, coriaceous, glabx-ous, elliptic-oblong. Spikes axillary, compact, 

 cylindric, densely pubescent, free part of calyx campanulate. Fr. l-l'J in. long, not 

 winged, with 5 very acute ridges. 



B. EL tetramerous, fr. with 4 prominent ridges. 



7. C, acuminatum, Roxb.— Syn. C. costatum, Eoxb. ; Kurz E. EL i. 465. 



