=. MONADELPHIA PENTANDRIA, Aegiceras, 
petals. Anthers blue, at first erect, afterwards spirally bent. 
Germ shorter than the filaments, sub-cylindric, hairy. Styles 
scarcely any. Stigma broad, somewhat rough, Silique long, 
slender, slightly incurvate, cylindric, acute, a little aihgiey 
_ Seeds numerous, round, rugose. 
CLASS XVI. 
MONADELPHIA PENTANDRIA. . 
AEGICERAS. Schreb. gen. N. 398. 
Calyx beneath five-leaved, Corol one-petalled, contorted, 
Stale. single. Capsule curved, without perisperm, 
-A.majus. Gert. Sem.i.t.46, 1. Linn. sp.pl.ed. Willd.i. 1082. 
Leaves obovate-oblong, smooth. Flowers umbelled. 
, Beng. Hulsee. 
Rhizophora corniculata. Linn, sp. p/. 635, 
- Pou Candel. Rheed. Mal. vi. t, 36. good. Rumphius’ s 
fut, if of this, is too bad to be quoted: 
A small tree, a native of the Delta of the Ganges, and sucht 
other places as are overflowed at spring-tides, Flowering 
a the hot season. 
- Leaves from alternate to nearly verticelled, short- setidk: 
ed, obovate, and wedge-shaped, often emarginate, smooth, 
entire, firm and fleshy ; two or three inches long, and from 
one to two broad, Peduncles terminal and axillary, solitary, 
very short, collecting round their apices in an umbel of nu- 
merous, straight, one-flowered pedicels, Calyx five-leaved, 
much contorted, permanent. Corol one-petalled. Tube 
short, gibbous ; mouth woolly. Border five-parted; divisions 
contorted, tapering from cordate bases to short points; soon a 
after expansion they become reflected. Filaments five, coal- 
-esced into a tube round the germ, inserted into the bottom 
of the tube of the corol, very woolly. Anthers long, incum-— 
