1^97.] G. King— Matenah for a Flora of th Malaijan Peninsula. 335 
Kara: For. Brit. Burma T, 468 ; Clarke in Hook. fiL Fl. Br. Ind. IT, 
452. Pyrrantlius alhns, Wall Cat, 4019. Petaloma alternifolia, Rt>xb. 
Fl. Ind. IT, 372. Bruguiera madagascariensiSf DC. Prcjdr. Ill, 23. 
Rheed© Horfc. Mai. VI, t 37. 
In MangTore-swatups m all the Provinces. DiSTRm. British India, 
the Malayan Archipelago, North Auatraiia and Polynesia. 
4. COlblBBfiTUM, Xiiun. 
Shrubs with long pendent or acandent branches. Leaves entire, 
petioled, opposite or more seldom alternate or ternate. Flowers herma- 
phrodite or polygamo-dice^ioiis, in epikcfii or panicles, biajcteoles small, 
0alyx-tnb6 constt'icted above the ovary, sliort or lonp^-prodncHtl, nrceo- 
late funnel-shaped tabular or campanulate ; limb 4-5-tobeti, decidoons. 
PeHls as many as- the ealyx-iobes, (0 in C, ap&talum), placed on tlie 
calyx-limb. Stamens twice as many the petals, inserted in two series 
with tliem. Outirt/ inferior, 1-celled ; style 1, snhnlate, simple^ ovtiles 
pendent from the top of the cell. FncU with 4-5 winsrs angles or 
vidgos, dry, generally indehjscent. Seed 1 ; cotyledons plaited or flat, 
in a few species convoluted. Uif>Tiira, Species 160, common in the 
tropics of Aniei-ica, Afi'ica and Asia; also in South Africa, 
Flowers S-tnerons ; fmit Spangled ... 
Flowers 4-meroa8 ; fruit 4-anglGcl ... „. 
Flowers 4-merou3 ; fruit ■t-wSnR'ed: — 
Tubo of qalyjc muoli elongate ; flowers not aquataoaej, buds 
e]li|j8t>id, their ajjices very mucli pomtod 
Flowers condonsGd in globose madses at the ends of the 
btanohes of tliQ pADide 
Flower-apikoa olongated 
Tn bo of calyx long ; flowers sqaamose, buds globose, the 
Bpox ratbor Monto ... 
Tubo of oajyx short j buda not pointed i— 
Flowers aquumoiie ; leaves not cordute and with distiact 
putioIcB '3"'4 in. long ; — 
Fruit not utjmpreeHod, its facea all aarrow and equal, 
its ivings bmad and thin 
Fruit compressed, two of its faces broad and two 
narrow, its winpa short find thick 
Plow era not Bqiiamose ; leaves cordate and with very 
ehort petioles (•05'-'15 in. long) : — 
Leaves glabroua except. the midrib :— 
ranicle and calyx with short thiclk glandalar hairs 
Panicles cinor sons- tomentoBO ; floworB puborulooa ; 
fmit binok when ripe and with narrow wings 
Lesivea, except whon old, with long lulprea^d haira 
beneath 3 panicles sericeoaa-tomentose ; fruit pale* 
brown when ilrj, with broad thin winga ... 
1. 
2. 
C. trifoliatum. 
C, letralophAin, 
C titndiacvLin, 
5. C, ehifiense. 
6. 
7. 
S. C. Klinstlert, 
9. C nigreaeens. 
10, C. Scorteekinii. 
