Ceriops. | LIV. RHIZOPHORACEZ (OLIVER) 409 
the rather small ovate-oblong or oblong 2-celled longitudinally dehis- 
cing anther. Ovary }-inferior, “3-celled” or with the dissepiments 
partial or reduced to slender cords; ovules 2 in each cell; style undi- 
vided, thickened at base. Fruit and germination as in Lehizophora ; the 
protruded radicle usually strongly suleate towards the apex, at least 
when dry.—Trees or large bushes, wholly glabrous. Leaves opposite, 
coriaceous, entire, petiolate. Stipules interpetiolar, caducous. Pe- 
duncles axillary, shortly or obsoletely 8—2-chotomous at apex ; flowers 
smaller than in Jhizophora, subcapitate. 
A small genus, widely spread along muddy intertropical shores in the Old World. 
1. C. Candolliana, Arn. in Ann. Nat. Hist. i. (1838), 364. Bush 
or small tree. Branches smooth, terete, or extremities ste com- 
pressed. Leaves obovate-elliptical or elliptical, apex rounded often 
slightly emarginate, base narrowed into the petiole, midrib rather pro- 
minent beneath, venation obscure; 14—3$ in. long, 3-2 in. broad; 
petiole 3-14 in. Peduncles usually considerably under 1 in., bracteo- 
late and very shortly or obsoletely 2—3-forked at apex. Flowers subsessile 
or pedicels very short. Petals 5, oblong truncate with 3 apical clavate 
Sete, base very shortly abruptly narrowed, slightly coherent for a 
short space by the margin a little below the middle. Stamens 10, 
alternately shorter.—C. mossambicensis, Klotzsch in Peters’ Mossamb. 
Bot. 71. “(See Arnott’s memoir for further synonymy.) 
Mozamb. Distr. Mouth of Zambesi, Dr. Kirk ! From Querimba to Mozambique, 
Dr. Peters. 
_ Through some blunder, Dr. Klotzsch (l.c.) describes the style as growing out to 9in. 
in length with the maturing of the fruit, mistaking for it the protruded radicle. 
Occurs in India and eastward to Australia. 
3. BRUGUIERA, Lam. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, i. 679. 
Flowers coriaceous. Calyx ebracteolate ; tube obconical, produced 
above the inferior ovary, limb 8-14-partite, segments linear or subu- 
late valvate. Petals as many as calyx-segments, inserted in mouth of 
calyx-tube, bifid, with a median a lateral apical seta, margins con- 
duplicate below. Stamens twice as many as petals in pairs opposite to 
and embraced by them; filaments filiform; anthers linear, 2-celled, 
mucronate. Ovary inferior, 2-3—4-celled; style filiform, with as 
many minute stigmatic teeth as cells in ovary; ovules geminate. Fruit 
turbinate, very coriaceous, crowned by the persistent free portion of 
the calyx-tube; 1-celled, 1-seeded. Cotyledons minute (bipartite in 
following species, Dr. Kirk); radicle protruded from the pericarp, 
elongate, clavate, ultimately rooting.—Trees, wholly glabrous. Leaves 
opposite, petiolate, elliptical, entire, coriaceous. Stipules interpetiolar, 
caducous. Peduncles axillary, usually decurved, 1—s0 -flowered. 
A small genus of muddy intertropical shores in the Old World. 
_l. B. cylindrica, Blum. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. i. 137. (var.) Tree of con- 
siderable size. Leaves rather narrowly elliptical, acute or subacute or 
