Combretum] L, COMBRETACE.E 313 



A large climber, 1. elliptic- or ovate-lanceolate, underside often slightly hairjj 

 blade 4-8, petiole Jin., sec. n. 10-15 jiair. M. yellow, in slender axillary 

 spikes, often forming leafy panicles at the ends of branches, free part of calyx 

 campanulate, petals small, narrow, stamens long exserted. Fr. 1-2 in. long, 

 narrowly ellipsoid, with four thick rounded ridges. 



Assam, Khasi hills. Pegti, Tenas&erim. Fl R. S. Ceylon low country, raie. 8. 0. 

 tetragonocarpum, Kurz, Pegu, imperft^ctly known. 



^0. FL tetramerous, fr. with 4 papery wings. 



9. C. fiagrocarpum, Herb. Calc— Syn. C, Walllchil^ Kurz F. FL i, 465. 



A large scandent shrub, young shoots and inflorescence densely clothed with 

 rusty peltate scales, 1. broad-elliptic with numerous minute resinous dots on 

 both sides, chiefly beneath, pubescent along the nerves, blade 5-9, petiole 

 stout I in. long. Spikes axillary and in terminal panicles, bracts linear, 

 persistent. Petals white, spathulate, exceeding the triangular calyx-segments. 

 Fr. 1~1J in. long and equally broad, red or red-brown, surface of "^seed portion 

 densely covered between the wings with lanceolate-linear scales, 



Sikkim, ascending to 5,000 ft , Assam, Kbasi and Naga kills, Manipur, Cluttagong. 

 Upper Burma. M. May, June. Closely allied : 10. C. Walliclui, DC. Nepal, Sikkim, 

 common, ascending to 5,000 ft A straggling skrub, differs from 9 by smaller and 

 thinner leaves with tufts of yellow liair in the axils of the sec. n. on the underside, 

 minute fugacious bracts, and small petals. 



11. C. dasystachyum, Kurz F. FL i. 464. Vern. Semcikan mvd^ Burm. 



A woody climber (deciduous, Smales), branchlets, petioles, underside of 

 younger leaves (chiefly along nerves), and inflorescence pubescent. L. mem- 

 branous, lanceolate from a narrowly cordate base, sec. n. 8-10 pair, arching, 

 blade 3-9, petiole |~|- in. Fl. in axillary (sometimes compound) spikes, free 

 portion of calyx funnel-shaped, claw of petals nearly as long as the obovate 

 blade. Fr. shining, 1 J- by 1 in. 



Assam. Khasi hills. Cachar. Chittagong. Burma, Lower and Upper. FI. H, S, 

 Fr. C. S. Closely allied are: 12. C. cMnense, Eoxb. Assam. Khasi hills. Chitta- 

 gong. Andamans. Eastern slopes of the Pegu Yoma. Hills east of Toungoo, 

 2,000 ft. Mergui. Malay Peninsula. A large woody climber (evergreen, Kurz), 1. 

 glabrous, thinly coriaceous, frequently in whorls of three, elliptic or obovate-elliptic, 

 young shoots and inflorescence sparsely covered with minute scales and resinous dots, 

 fr. 1-1 J in. long, nearly as broad as long, wings refuse at both ends. 13. C. squamosum, 

 Eoxb. Sikkim Terai on the banks of streams. Bhutan, Assam, Khasi hills, Cachar. 

 Pegu, Tenasserim. Andamans. Malay Peninsula. A large climber, branchlets, 

 leaves and inflorescence covered with round peltate scales with pale edges, L thinly 

 coriaceous, from a rounded base, broadly elliptic, abruptly acuminate, blade 3--5, petiole 

 i~Jin.long, fl". 1-1 J in. long and equally broad. 14. C. quadrangnilare, Kurz, Tenasserim, 

 clothed with circular scales, branchlets sharply quadrangular, 1. oblanceolate or lanceo- 

 late, gradually narrowed into the short petiole, fl. small. 



15. C. ovalifolium, Eoxb. ; Trimen Handb. Ceylon ii. 163. Vern. 

 Dimarbolciy Jabalpiir. 



A large straggling or climbing almost entirely glabrous shrub, branchlets 

 stiff, divaricate, nearly at right angles to stem or branches, 1. opposite, from 

 an acute base elliptic, acuminate, blade 3-5, petiole | in. long. FL white, in 

 axillary and terminal panicled spikes, with a few broadly-ovate, coloured floral 

 leaves (bracts) at the base of ramifications, fi. outside with minute hairs and 

 thin peltate scales, bracts minute. Fr, f in. long, nearly glabrous. 



Deciduous forests in the Central Provinces, B^rar, and the Western Peninsula. Fl. 

 Jan.-Mar,, 1. turn dark red before falling, climbs over tall trees and often carpets 

 the ground on the banks of streams, like ivy,— Ceylon, dry country. 16. 0. nanum, 

 Hann* Brandis P. PL 221, is a small under&hrub, with a thick woody prostrate- or 

 underground stem, common in grass lands of the Subhimalayan tract, from the Jumna 

 to Sikkim, in the Oudh forests, Behar and the Central Provinces. Also on the Shan 

 hills of Tipper Burma. The leaf- and fl.-bearing stems are burnt down to the ground 

 annually by the fires of the hot season. L. obovate, fr. IJ in. long, in dense clusters. 



