ORDER LXXI.—MEMECYLEÆ.
Tropical trees and shrubs, with white or purplish flowers, and eatable fruit.
ORDER LXXII.-COMBRETACEÆ.
This order is well-known from the two beautiful climbing stove-plants, Combretum purpureum, and Quisqualis indica. The flowers of the former are disposed in racemes, which have a peculiarly light and graceful appearance, from the great length of their stamens; and as they are of a brilliant scarlet, the name of Purpureum is very ill applied to the species. The flowers of Quisqualis indica have a very long slender tube to the calyx, and five velvet-like petals, which vary in colour from a yellowish white to red, changing in the course of one day.
ORDER LXXIII.—VOCHYSIEÆ.
Brazilian trees and shrubs, with yellow flowers, and stipulate, feather-nerved leaves.