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COMBRETACEJE. 
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teeth. Petals none. Stamens 10, biseriate, exserted ; filaments filiform ; 
anthers minute, globose. Ovary inferior, one-celled ; ovules 2, pendu- 
lous from the apex ; style subulate ; stigma capitate. Fruit in our 
plant a hard triquetrous nut, with a coriaceous wing all round. — Erect 
trees or shrubs with alternate leaves and minute flowers in simple 
racemes. Distrib. Cosmopolitan in the tropics. Species 80-90. 
Racemes as long as the leaves. Fruit-wing broad . . . 1. T. Benzoin. 
Racemes much shorter than the leaves. Fruit- wing narrow 2. T. Catappa. 
1. T. Benzoin, Linn. jil. Suppl. 434, ( excl . syn. and loc.) A tree 
30-40 feet high, with leaves crowded at the thickened tips of the 
branches, which are tessellated with the scars of the fallen petioles. 
Leaves oblong-spathulate, crenate, obtuse or cuspidate, glabrous, sub- 
coriaceous, 3-4 in. long, narrowed into a glandular petiole. Racemes 
axillary, petioled, as long as the leaves ; pedicels exceeding the calyx. 
Calyx greenish, glabrous, T \ in. broad. Stamens twice as long as the 
calyx. Fruit an inch long, round, emarginate, with a broad firm per- 
sistent wing. T. angustifolia, Lacy. Vind. 3, t. 100. T. mauritiana, 
Lam. ; DC. Prod. iii. 11. 
Mauritius, in the woods of the Savanne range and in the plains of Poudre d’Or ; 
now rare. Rodriguez, common. Bouton ! Balfour ! Also Bourbon. Bois Benzoin. 
Bon Charon. 
2. T. Catappa, Linn.; DC. Prod. iii. 11. A tree 60-80 feet high, 
with a trunk 3-6 feet in diameter and stout branchlets, marked with the 
scars of fallen leaves. Leaves crowded near the end of the branchlets, 
short-petioled, obovate, obtuse, entire, membranous, J-l ft. long, 
glabrous or pilose beneath, with two glands near the base of the midrib. 
Flowers in short peduncled slender spike-like racemes from the axils of 
the leaves. Calyx ^ in. long, silky outside and inside, with five lanceolate 
reflexing teeth. Stamens exserted. Anthers round, minute. Fruit 
oblong, woody, 1£- 2 in. long, with a narrow wing and an edible kernel. 
Lacy. lc. t. 197 ; Bot. Mag. t. 197. 
Seychelles, in Felicite and Marie Anne Isles forming two-thirds of the woody 
vegetation, in the other islands only near houses, Horne , 45 1 ! Rodriguez, frequent, 
Balfour ! Also much planted in Mauritius. Badamier. Common in Tropical Asia. 
Order XLY. MYRTACEA3. 
Flowers regular, hermaphrodite. Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary, 
sometimes produced beyond it ; limb 2-5-lobed, sometimes entire in 
bud. Petals usually 4, absent in Fcetidia. Stamens epigynous, very 
numerous ; filaments filiform ; anthers minute, 2-celled. Ovary inferior, 
2- or many-celled ; placentation axile ; ovules 2 or many ; style 
long, filiform ; stigma mostly entire. Fruit dry or fleshy, 
1-2- or few-celled. Seeds many or solitary, exalbuminous. — Trees or 
shrubs ; leaves mostly opposite and gland-dotted, exstipulate ; in- 
florescence various. Distrie. Tropical and subtropical round the 
world. Species 1800. 
Leaves opposite, gland- dotted. 
Ovary 4-6-celled. Radicle elongated * Psidium. 
