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Tidal shores from the mouths of the Indus to Malacca and Ceylon.— Disthir 

 Tropical shores of Asia, Africa and Australia. - * ■ 



A large shrub or tree, evergreen. Leaves 3-7 bj 1^4 in,, narrowed at the base* 

 Flowers more or less drooping. Calyx-lohes triangular, narrowing upwards. ^^taU 

 villous, shorter than the calyx-limb, subconnivent, coriaceous ; margins involute.— A 

 variety in Malacca, E. stylosa, Griff, (sp.) Notul. iv. 6Q6 ; and Ic. PL Ami. t. 

 640, differs according to Griffith from B, oonjugata in its smaller stature, length of 

 style, smaller radicle, more villous petals and more elongated base of the Aowcts, out 

 the description shows a closer agreement with B. mucronaia than with /?. cm* 

 jugata, ; 



2. B. conjugrata, imw. ; DC. Prodr. iii. 33; peduncles arising from 

 the axils of (fallen) leaves of the previous year shorter than the petioles^ 

 mostly 2-flowered, flowers sessile. E, candelaria, DC. 1. c. 32. R. apiculata^ 

 Blu7ne Flor. Jav. i. 01, and Mus, Bot 134 ; Wight III. I 209; t. 3 ; Knrz lor. 

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Tidal marshes from the mouths o£ the Indus to Malacca and Ceylon.— Distbib. 



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Tropical shores of Asia and Africa. 



Shrubby or arborescent. Leaves 4-8 by 1-3^ in., usually more lanceolate ™^° 

 the preceding species and subacuminate. Calyx-lobes ovate. Pe^aZ^ glabrous, linear, 

 flat, submembranous. Stamens 11-12, 



2. 



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Trees, leaves ovate or obovate. Peduncles axillary with subcapitate A^wej^ 

 CaZya: 5-6-nierous, surrounded at the base with connate bracts. Pe^a/^ 5-b, in- 

 serted at the base of a lO-12-.lohed fleshy disk, emarginate, appendiculate, 

 lobes of the petals with clavate or capitate bristles.- Stamens 10-12, filamenw 

 inserted hetween the lobes of the disk slender ; anthers 2-celled. Ovary ^ 



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celled (at least atoTe), cells 2-OTuled; style stort, stigma simple. Fri' 

 coriaceous, ovoid, surrounded by the reflexed limb of the calyx, 1-ceuea, 

 1-seeded. Germination as in Rhizophora.— DisTKiB, Species 2 or 3, natives o 

 the tropical shores of the Old World. 



1. C. Candolleana, Am. in Ann. Nat. Hist. i. 363 ; calyx 5-cleft, 

 lobes linear acute, petals 5 glabrous emarfrinate tip with 3-4 capitate bnsu 

 Blume Mus. Bot. 142 ; Wiqht III i. 209 ; Ic. t. 240 ; Bedd. Flor. Sylv. ^ 

 Gen. t. xiii. fig. 5 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. {. 590 ; Brandis For. Fl. 21» ; ^'^[ 

 For. Fl. Brit. Burm. i. 448. E. timorensis, DC. Prodr. iii. 32. 



Tidal forests, &c., from the mouths of the Indus to Malacca and Ceylon.— Dist^' 

 of the genus. . ^^^ 



A small shrub or small tree. Leaves 2-3 by 1-2 in., obovate, very ob r 

 cuneato or attenuate at the base. Flowers in rather loose cymes or subcap 

 Stamens 10, alternately shorter. Ovary half-inferior, 3-celled. ^''^^^J.^'i^ 

 shaped or subovate, surrounded near the base by the reflexed segments of the cinj , 





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Tidal forests from the Sunderbunds to Malacca.— Distrib. of the genus. _- ^^ 

 A dwarf tree or shrub. Leaves 1-4 by § to 2 in., narrowed at the base, ;^ ^^ 



tuse, reddish brown beneath, glabrous. ' Inflorescence 

 glomerules. Peduncle very short. Stamens 10-12. 



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