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COMBRETUM* comosum. 
Long-stamened. Combretum. 
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DECANDRIA,. MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. CoMBRETACER. 
COMBRETUM L.— Calycis limbus infundibuliformis 4-lobus de- 
ciduus. Petala 4, inter lobos calycis inserta. Stamina 8, biserialia; 
ex his 4 petalis opposita altius inserta et longé exserta. Ovarium 2-5-ovu- 
latum. Stylus exsertus acutus. Fructus 4-pteri, 1-loculares, 1-spermi, 
indehiscentes. Semen angulatum pendulum.  Cotyledones plicd media 
reflexes _cruciato-divaricate. Frutices -arboresve subscandentes. Folia 
sepids opposita integerrima. Spice terminales et axillares, interdum pant- 
culate. Dec. prodr. 3. p. 18. 
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§ Partes floris quinariee. — mis 4 cine 
C. comosum ; foliis ellipticis acutis basi subcordatis glabriusculis, paniculis 
terminalibus laxis multifloris, petalis obtusis, bractels lanceolatis, ramulis 
ern 
This fine climbing stove plant was. collected by 
Mr. George Don, for the Horticultural Society, in Sierra 
Leone, in 1821: from seeds sent home by him, a great 
number of plants have heen distributed by the Society 
through the Gardens of Europe; but we believe they have 
* Combretum is a Plinian name, the application of which is now 
unknown; it has been capriciously given to the genus which at present 
bears it. Comosus, in Botanical language, indicates the presence of en- 
larged bracteze or of leaves at the extremity of an inflorescence. — It seems 
to have been used in this instance in the signification of shaggy, in allusion 
to the long hair-like filaments. . 
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