648 
MERRILL. 
Lumnitzera coccinea W. & A. Prodr. 1 (1834) 316; Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. 1 1 
(1856) 606; Clarke in Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. 2 (1878) 452; F.-Vill. Nov. App. 
(1880) 80; Vid. Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. (1886) 128; King, in Journ. As. Soe. Beng. 
66 2 (1897) 334. 
Petaloma coccinea Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 345, ed. 2 (1845) 240, ed. 3, 2: 83. 
Luzon, Province of Cagayan, For. Bur. 7083 Klemme : Province of Zambales, 
Merrill 2082, For. Bur. 5888 Curran, Bur. Sci. 1/722 Ramos: Province of Tayabas, 
Merrill 21/83, 2065, For. Bur. 10231/, 10386, 10250 Curran, (Principe) Merrill 
111/6: Province of Sorsogon, For. Bur. 10596 Curran. Mindoro, Merrill 2395, 
For. Bur. 51/27, 9S07, 9892 Merritt. Culion, Merrill 5S3. Palawan, Bur. Sci. 
266 Bermejos, For. Bur. 3511 Curran, Bur. Sci. 611/ Foxworthy. Masbate, For. 
Bur. 12669 Rosenbluth, For. Bur. 1001/ Clark. Negros, For. Bur. 1:5013 Diehl, For. 
Bur. 5603 Everett. Dinagat, Aliern 1/1/1. Basilan, For. Bur. 1/020 Hutchinson. 
Mindanao, Province of Snrigao, Ahern 501; District of Davao, Copeland 1323; 
District of Zamboanga, For. Bur. 931/5, 91/36 Whitford & Hutchinson. 
Native names: Carifurog (Negrito, Cagayan) ; Lebato, Pasasic, Libato, Agnaya, 
Aguia, Calapini, Culasi, Anilay, Colisiman (Tag.) ; Tabao, Duloc-duloc, Buloc- 
buloc, Saga-sa, Maoro (Vis.); Panting-panting (Moro). 
In mangroves and beach forests throughout the Philippines, abundant. India 
to the Malay Peninsula and Archipelago to New Guinea, tropical Australia, and 
Polynesia. Lumnitzera pedicellata Presl of the Marianne and Marshall Islands 
is doubtfully distinct, 
3. COMBRETUM Linn. 
Calyx-tube less than 3 mm long. 
All parts glabrous or nearly so 1. C. acuminatum 
Inflorescence and calyx-tubes very densely lepidote 2. C. squamosum 
Calyx-tube elongated, at least 5 mm long. 
Flowers in elongated spikes, the calyx-tubes only slightly puberulent. 
3. C. extensum 
Flowers densely arranged at the ends of the panicle-branches, the calyx-tubes 
rather densely puberulent 4. C. confusum 
1. Combretum acuminatum Roxb. Hort. Beng. (1814) 28, FI. Ind. 2 (1832) 
228; Clarke in Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. 2 (1878) 455; Vidal Phan. Cuming. Philip. 
(1885) 112, Rev. PL Vase. Filip. (1886) 128; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1880) 81. 
Samar, Cuming 1681. 
The range given for this species by Clarke, l. c , is from the Transgangetic 
Peninsula from Assam to Singapore, Ceylon, -Madras Peninsula?, Malaya to the 
Philippines, but he may have included more than typical Combretum acuminatum 
Roxb. in his conception of the species. King 4 5 does not include the species in his 
“Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula” as occurring in the area covered 
by that work, nor does he mention it in his discussions of the accepted species. 
As I have only a fragment of Cuming’s specimen, and no Indian material for 
comparison, I am constrained to accept Clarke’s identification of Cuming’s specimen 
for the present. The Philippine specimen seems, however, to differ from Rox- 
burgh’s species, as described, in being quite glabrous. 
As to the name of the species, Ivurz 6 accepts Combretum costatum Roxb., which 
has page priority over C. acuminatum Roxb. 
4 Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 6 6 2 (1897) 335-341. 
5 Forest Flora of British Burma 1 (1877) 465. 
