408 LIV. RHIZOPHORACEE (OLIVER). [ Rhizophora. 
mucro or narrow apiculus, broadly cuneate or slightly rounded at base, 
scarcely or not at all narrowed into the petiole, midrib very prominent 
beneath, attenuate upwards, dull greenish yellow beneath when fresh 5 
usually 3-44 in. long, 13-23 in. broad; petiole 3-1} in. Peduncles 
axillary, compressed, often recurved, 1 in. more or less, few-flowered. 
Flowers nearly as in R. racemosa, probably rather larger and stouter. 
Style conical below. Fruit elongate-ovoid. 
Mozamb. Distr. Luabo mouth of Zambesi, Dr. Kirk! From Quirimba to 
Inhambane, 11° to 24° S. lat., Dr. Peters. : 
Also South of the Tropic, in Mascarene Islands, India and eastward to Australia and 
Polynesia. 
Description partly from a drawing by Dr. Kirk, from fresh specimens. A. Richard 
(Fl. Abyss. i. 271), cites Rhizophora Candelaria, DC., as occurring by the Red Sea, 
near Massouah. | have not seen a specimen. 
2. R. Mangle, Linn.; DC. Prod. iii. 82. Leaves elliptical, obtuse, 
curvature in circumscription nearly equal from about the middle ot 
the blade to each extremity, somewhat narrowed into the petiole at the 
base, 3-4 in. long, 14-2 in. broad more or less; petiole $}—-?in. Pe- 
duncles axillary, }-14 in., ascending or decurved, often compressed, 
few-flowered ; pedicels about 3, 1-2 in. long. Flowers and fruit nearly 
as in 2. mucronata. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Afzelius! Senegambia, Brunner! 
Widely spread in Tropical America. Our specimens are unsatisfactory, and I do not 
feel great confidence in this identification. 
3. R. racemosa, G. F. W. Meyer; DC. Prod. iii. 32. A small tree. 
Leaves oblanceolate-elliptical or oval, equally narrowed from the middle 
or a little above the middle to each end or more gradually to the base, 
narrowing into the petiole, apex bruadly pointed, becoming shortly 
revolute on drying; lamina 34-6 in. long, 14-2} in. broad ; petiole 
3-{.in. Flowers in pedunculate divaricate shortly-jointed many- 
owered cymes from the lower axils of the terminal leaf-tufts. Pe- 
duncles somewhat or slightly compressed, often decurved, 1-2 in. long. 
Pedicels and joints of cyme 4in. more or less, with small confluent 
bracteoles at the articulations. Calyx-lobes about 5 lines long. Petals 
narrow-oval with lax marginal hairs. Style rather slender, slightly 
thickened below. Fruit 14 in. long, oblong-ovoid, terete. 
Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone and Grand Bassa, E. Vogel! Brass, Barter! 
Also in Tropical America, if this identification be correct. The “ Red Mangrove” of 
the Brass traders (Barter). Perhaps to this species belongs a fragmentary specimen 
from the Congo (Smith), in the Kew herbarium ; the plant no doubt referred to by R. 
Brown in Tuckey, App. 437. 
2. CERIOPS, Arn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 679. 
Flowers very coriaceous. Calyx-tube short, sheathed by confluent 
bracteoles, limb 5—6-partite, segments oblong-lanceolate, coriaceous, 
valvate. Petals 5—6, truncate or emarginate with 3 or more apic¢ 
glands or clavate sete, membranous with a median nervure. Stamens 
10 or 12, inserted in the lobed disk; filaments slender, much exceeding 
