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COMBRETUM purpureum. 
Scarlet Combretum. Madagascar digrette. 
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OCTANDRIA| (v. DECANDRIA) MONOGYNI4, 
Nat. ord. ONAGRE. Jussieu gen. 317. Div. III. 
Compretace®. Cal. superus: limbo 4-5-fido, quali. Pet, 
4-5, vel nulla. Stam. 8-10; quandoque laciniis calycis aqualia et cum iisdem 
alternantia. 
ceptaculo communi, vel column4 centrali: stylus 1: stig. 1. Pericarp. 
I-spermum, clausum, figura et textura varium, Drupa v. Samara. Sem. 
exalbuminosum. Embryo cotyledonibus sepits involutis: plumula incon- 
spicua. Arbores v. Frutices. Fol. simplicia, integra, exstipulata, ‘alterna, 
nunc opposita, rard. punctato-pellucida. Flores, spicati azillares. Brown in 
append. to Flind. voy. 2. 548. , 
~ COMBRETUM. Cal. campanulatus, limbo 4-5-dentato deciduo. 
Pet. 4-5, parva. » Stam. plurimim: exserta, -antheris oblongis. Stic. bk 
Caps, oblonga, 4-5-angularis angulis alatis membranaceis, 1-loc., 1-sperma. 
Frutices sarmentosi; fol. opposita; flores spicati, v. spicato-paniculati, ter- 
minales et axillares spicis oppositis. Juss. 1. ce. 320.” y Tae 
C. purpureum, floribus decandris, spicis laxis panicul 
“1.727; (sub ComBrETO coccineo), ~ 
Combretum purpureum. Vahl symb. 3. 51. . Curtis's magax. 2102, Willd. 
sp. pl. 2. 819. ee : . : 
Combretum coccineum. Lamarck loc, cit. et illustr, 1. 282. f. 2. 
Cristaria. Sonnerat it. 2. 247. t. 140. : ae 
Frutex sarmentosus floribus pulcherrimis. Fol. opposita, petiolata, ovalia 
acumine brevi, integerrima, glabra, firmula, 3-4-uncialja latitudine .2-unciali 
v. majore. Panicule racemose, terminales, coccinea. Stam. 10, longé ex: 
serta. Caps. alis 5 tenuibus membranaceis. Lam. loc. cit. (ex gallico). 
atis. Lamarck encyc. 
The natural order, in which our plant now ranks and 
for which its genus has suggested the name, was first pro- 
posed by Mr. Brown in the Prodromus of the Flora of New 
Holland, and subsequently defined by him as above, in the 
General Remarks on the Botany of Terra Australis. A 
principal character of the group consists in the one-celled 
germen with two or more ovula simply pendulous from the 
upper part of the cavity, not inserted, as in the confining 
Santalacee, into a central receptacle or column. The order, 
Mr. Brown observes, appears to be connected with the 
Myrtacee through Jussieu’s genus Guipra, which has the 
structure of the Combretacece, and the foliage dotted with 
pellucid glands as in the Myrtacee. ' 
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Germ. 1-loc., ovulis 2-4, ab apice loculi pendulis absque re- . 
