LVII. COMBRETACE.E. 
7IO 
[Combretum. 
Chengei. Penang (Wallich); Waterfall and Western Hill (Curtis). 
Distrib. Andamans, India, Burma. 
In some of Curtis’s plants the flowers are umbellate at the ends of branches. 
The Indo-Burmese plants have much bigger leaves. 
(8) C. Wrayi King, l.c. 339. 
Woody climber hardly scaly. Leaves opposite, coriaceous, 
narrow elliptic sub-acute or shortly blunt-acuminate, base round, 
glabrous except a few hairs on base of midrib ; nerves 6 to 7 pairs, 
2*5 to 3*5 in. wide, 1*15 to 1*5 in. long; petioles *35 to *4 in. long; 
upper leaves smaller. Spikes solitary, axillary 1 in. long, flori- 
ferous part scaly and hairy. Flowers few. Calyx-tube *15 in. 
long, constrict above ovary, mouth campanulate, 4 triangular 
acute lobes, scaly. Petals little longer, oblanceolate blunt. 
Stamens 8, exsert. Fruit ovate, flattened with 4 short wings, 
1 *2 in. long, *6 in. wide, scaly. Hab. Perak, Matang, seashore 
(Wray). 
I have only seen one poor bit of this. It seems to me to be near 
C. tetralophum. 
(9) C. nigrescens King, l.c. 340. 
A climber 30 to 60 ft. tall. Branchlets, midrib on both sides, 
nerves beneath and petioles red-hairy. Leaves opposite, mem¬ 
branous, drying black, narrow, elliptic-oblong, base minutely 
cordate; nerves 7 pairs, elevate beneath, 2*25 to 275 in. long, 
75 to 1 in. wide; petioles under *i in. long. Panicles terminal, 
lax very hairy, 3 to 4 in. long; branches slender. Calyx-tube 
•05 in. long; limb longer, campanulate; teeth 4, acute, pubescent; 
throat hairy. Fruit black oblong, glabrous with 4 narrow wings, 
•8 in. long, *4 in. wide. Hab. River-banks and thick forest, low 
country. Pahang, Tahan River. Selangor, Batu Caves. Negri 
Sembilan, Gunong Berumbun (Cantley). Perak, Larut (Kunstler); 
Kota (Wray).* 
var. Kunstleri C. Kunstleri King, l.c.c. 
Branches and inflorescence nearly glabrous. Pahang, Temerloh 
(Ridley). Perak, Larut Hills (Kunstler). 
(10) C. Scortechinii King, l.c. 341. 
Branches appressed-hairy. Leaves opposite, thin coriaceous, 
oblong-elliptic acute, base minutely cordate, above when young 
appressed-hairy, then glabrous, beneath nerves 7 pairs elevate 
with midrib appressed-hairy, 3*25 to 4*5 in. long, 1*4 to 175 in. 
wide; petioles *i in. long. Panicles axillary and terminal, 2 in. 
long or less, silky-tomentose. Calyx-tube cylindric wide cam¬ 
panulate above, teeth broad, acute. Petals 4, ovate-lanceolate 
pubescent. Fruit glabrous with 4 thin wings pointed at ends, 
1-25 in. long, *65 in. wide. Hab. Perak, Goping (Scortechim). 
