Dr. Arnott on the Genus Rhizophora. 367 



he only quotes Malabar as its native country. As, however, 

 Blume first limited the species, I have allowed the name to 

 remain with the Molucca plant. Blume quotes Rheede's H. 

 Mai. vi. t. 33, as well as Rumph's figures, from which I pre- 

 sume that this species ought to be compared with B. malaba- 

 rica. 



In Rumph's work there are some discrepancies between 

 the description and figure ; thus it is said that the calyx has 

 8 — 10 or 11 patent segments that are finally reflexed, while in 

 the figure there are at least 10 segments erect, even when in 

 fruit. The tigellus is said to be neither angled nor striated, 

 but is represented in the figure slightly furrowed. The pe- 

 duncles, according to both figure and description, are one- 

 flowered, which circumstance would seem to remove it from 

 B. malabarica and its allies. 



§ 2. Petala apice setigera. 



* Calycis laciniae 9 — 14, lineari-acuminatse, apicem versus triquetras, fruc- 

 tiferae suberectre. Antherae lineares. Ovarium 3- (nunc 4-) loculare. 

 Pedunculi uniflori, cernui, folio breviores. Flores magni. 



3. B. Rheedei (Blume?) foliis ovali-oblongis utrinque acuminatis, calyce 

 ] — 14- (ssepius 12-) fido laciniis demum ereclis vel subincurvis, petalis 

 ima basi villosulis alioquin glaberrimis laciniis acutis apice bisetis cum 

 seta quinta in fissura. Blume ? /. c. p. 92. — B. gymnorrhiza, Lam. (quoad 

 flores) ill. t. 397./. a,b, c, etforsan d— -f. Herb. Ham. n. 1111. Wight 

 et Am. I. c. p. 311 (ex parte) ; Wight, Cat. n. 1043 (ex parte). — Rhi- 

 zophora gymnorrhiza Lin.sp.p. 634 (ex parte). Roxb.Fl.Ind. ii.p.460; 

 in ccet. Merc. I. 0. Mus. tab. 1246. Wall. Cat. n. 4874. Lour. 1 Coch. 

 (ed. Willd.) p. ZM.—Rheed. H. Mai. vi. t. 31 et32. Rumph. Amb.t. 69 

 (fide Blume ; itaque hue trahenda R. Palun, DC. I. c.) 



Hab. in Malabaria, Rheede, Wight. Ad ostia Gangis, Goodlad, Hamil- 

 ton. In Moluccis ac Java (fide Blumei). Cochinchina, Loureiro. In 

 Penang, &c, Wallich. 



Tigellus subcylindricus, lsevis, utrinque acuminatus, in hac, et forsan in 

 aliis hujus subsectionis speciebus. 



I feel uncertain if this be Blume's plant, on account of his 

 reference to Rumph's Hortus Amboinensis : according to that 

 work the peduncles are usually two-flowered, the calyx seg- 

 ments 5 in the description, or as many as 8 or 10 in the mi- 

 serable accompanying figure, and the germinating radicle or 

 tigellus cylindrical and striated, which is not the case with the 

 Malabar species. 



