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portion of a leaf will, under favourable conditions, grow into au independent plant. Pos- 

 sessing this viviparous property the plant multiplies itself at a prodigious rate, and as 

 stated in Part I., p. 31, it is one of the commoner plants in the Bermudas. 



KHIZOPHORE^E. 

 Rhizophora mucronata, Lam. 



Bhizophora mucronata, Lam.; Miq., Fl. Ind. Bat, i. 1, p. 583; Benth., Fl. Aush-., ii. p. 493; 

 Hook, f., Fl. Brit. Ind., ii. p. 435 ; Seem., Fl. Vit., p. 91. 



Arrott ; Timor Laut. — This is one of the commonest of the Mangroves in the tidal 

 swamps of Tropical Asia, insular and continental; it is also in Eastern Africa, Northern 

 Australia, the Fiji, Samoan, and other islands of Polynesia. Jouan (in Mem. Soc. Sci. 

 Nat. Cherbourg, xi. 1865, p. 149) enumerates " Rhizophora mangle, Linn." as a native of 

 New Caledonia, the Archipelago, &c. ; but Miquel is probably right (Fl. Ind. Bat,, i. 1, p. 

 584) where he says, "Rhizophora mangle, Linn., et al. ex parte quoad stirpem gerontog." 

 The true Rhizophora mangle, Linn., appears to be restricted to America and Western 

 Africa ; see Part I., p. 32. 



Bruguiera rheedii, Blume % 



Bruguiera rheedii, Blume? Miq., Fl. Ind. Bat., i. 1, p. 587; Bentli., Fl. Austr., ii. p. 494; Seem., 

 Fl. Vit., p. 91. 



Dammar. — A common Mangrove, rano-ing from Northern Australia to Sumatra, and in 

 Western Polynesia. In the Flora of British India (ii. p. 437), this species is reduced to 

 Bruguiera gymnorhiza, Lam., which gives it a much wider range in Tropical Asia, the 

 Mascarene Islands, and Eastern Africa. In Oliver's Flora of Tropical Africa (ii. p. 409), 

 the African species of this genus is named Bruguiera cylindrica, Blume, with a note to 

 the effect that it is probably not distinct from Bruguiera gymnorhiza, Blume, and Brugu- 

 iera capensis, Blume. It is described as the commonest and handsomest of the Zambesi 

 Mangroves, extending farther inland than the others, though equally littoral. In appear- 

 ance, these so-called species are so much alike that they may well be one. 



Bruguiera caryoprrylloides, Blume? 



Bruguiera caryophylhides, Blume ? Miq., Fl. Ind. Bat., i. 1, p. 589 ; Hook, f., Fl. Brit. Ind., ii. p. 



Arrott. Tidal forests of the Archipelago and India, from Malabar to Malacca and 



Ceylon. The specimens of this and the preceding from the Moluccas are too imperfect for 



the species to be determined with absolute certainty. Bruguiera is not represented in 



America. 



Anisophyllea sp. 1 



Dia— A somewhat anomalous genus of this order, comprising about half-a-dozen 

 species, restricted to Tropical Asia. 



