514 LYTHRARIE (Sond.) [Bruguiera. 
Has. On the seashore near Port Natal, Drege, Krauss. April-Aug. (Hb. Sd. D.) 
Il. BRUGUIERA, Lam. 
Calyx-tube turbinate, adhering to the ovary ; limb divided into 
5-13, persistent segments. Petals as many as the calycine segments, 
oblong, bifid, coriaceous, conduplicate, each embracing two stamens, 
woolly along the margin. Stamens twice as many as petals, and in- 
serted by pairs opposite to them ; filaments unequal, half the length of 
the petals ; anthers linear or sagittate. Ovary 2—4-celled ; ovules 
2 in each cell. Style nearly the length of the stamens. Stigma 2-4- 
toothed. Fruit contained within the tube of the calyx, crowned at the 
apex by its segments, at length perforated by the germinating embryo. 
Lam. Ill. t. 397. W. & Arn. Prod. 311. Endl. Gen. n. 6101. 
Trees or shrubs, with quite entire leaves and axillary inflorescence. Named after 
the French botanist, Bruguiere. ‘ 
1. B. gymnorhiza (Lam. 1. c.) ; leaves ovate-oblong, acuminate at 
both ends; peduncles solitary, 1-flowered, drooping ; calyx about 12- 
cleft ; segments linear-acuminated, triquetrous toward the point ; petals 
2-lobed, acute, 2-4-setose, and a longish setula in the sinus. B. Capensis, 
Wightii, and Rheedii. Blume Mus. Lugd. Bat. 137. Rhizophora gym- 
norhiza, L. 
Has. Near Port Natal, Drege, Krauss, Gueinzius. July. (Herb. 8d., D.) 
Tree 12-15 feet. Leaves in our specimens 4 inches long, 14-2 inches broad, on 
longish petioles. Flowers reddish-yellow. Calyx glabrous, lobes 7-8 lines long, 
1 line wide. Petals nearly as long as the calyx, hirsute at the base, subpilose at 
the margins ; the setula in the sinus a little shorter than the petals. Germinating 
radicle 3-4 inches long, cylindraceous, obtuse, when dry scarcely striated. 
OrpeR LXIV. LYTHRARIEZ. 
(By W. Sonper.) 
Flowers perfect, rarely irregular. Calyx free, persistent, tubular or 
campanulate, the tube nerved or ribbed, the limb few or many-toothed, 
the teeth in one or two rows, with valvate estivation. Petals (rarely 
wanting) inserted at the summit of the calyx-tube, alternating with its 
teeth, or with those of the inner row, when they are doubled, imbri- 
cated in estivation, tender in substance, deciduous. Stamens inserted 
about the middle, or toward the bottom of the calyx-tube, as many as 
the petals and alternate with them, rarely fewer, or twice or thrice as 
many, in one or more rows ; filaments filiform; anthers introrse, bilo- 
cular, erect or incumbent, opening lengthwise. Ovary free, sessile or 
substipitate, 2-3~4—5—6-celled, sometimes imperfectly unilocular; ovules 
numerous (rarely few) on axile placentew. Style simple, terminal ; 
stigma simple or emarginate. Capsule membranous or woody, inclosed 
in the persistent base of the calyx, either opening by valves, circum- 
resi or irregularly bursting. Seeds exalbuminous ; embryo ortho- 
Herbs, shrubs or trees, few in number, but widely diffused throughout the tem- 
perate zones; much more numerous and arborescent within the tropics, especially of 
America, Leaves opposite or whorled, or often on the same stem alternate, simple, 
penninerved, entire, petioled or sessile, sometimes gland-dotted, exstipulate. 
