3/0 Dr. Amott on the Genus Rhizophora. 



capillaria, cafyci insistentia, ipso longiora, antheris oblongis 



stantibus/' which docs not agree w ith />. Attstralis or its allies. 



The follow inop i s a ('/aris Analytica of the better known Bpecies. 



Fructua Bemiadhaereiu. 



Petala 1 I. Rhizophora, L. 



Petala 5. 



Stamina 10 II. Ccriops, Am. 



Stamina indefinite III. Kandelia, W. & A. 



Fractal omnino adluerens IV. Bruguieria, L'llcr. 



I. Petala margine villosa. 



Folia obtusa R. Mangle, L. 



Folia apiculata R. mucronala, Lam. 



Petala glaberrima 11. conjugate, L. 



II. Petala apice triseta C. Candolliana, Arn. 



Petala versus apicem setoso-ciliata C. Roxburgh ii, Arn. 



III. (Unica species) K. Rheedei, W. &A. 



IV. Petala apice nuda. 



Tigelli costati B. gymnorrhiza , Bl. 



Tigelli lasves B. cylindrica, Bl. 



Petala apice setigera. 



Calycis laciniae 9 — 14 fructiferse erectiuscula?. 



Petala (salva basi) glaberrima B. Rheedei, Bl. 



Petala basi lanata secus margines pilosa B. Australia, Cunn. 



Petala secus margines sericeo-hirsutissima ... B. eriopetala,W.8i A. 



Calycis laciniae 8, fructiferce patentes. 



Pedunculi sub-3-flori ; ovarium 2-loculare. 



Folia utrinque acuta: pedunculi petiolo ) n 7 „ . , r>i 



t . l ' L l \ B. caryophylloides.lil. 



breviores J j i j 



Folia utrinque acuminata: pedunculi pet. ) n 7 7 . 



1 ' l L > B. malabarica, Arn. 

 sequantes J 



Pedunculi multiflori; ovarium 3-loculare... B. parviflora, Arn. 



From the order Rhizophorece must be excluded Olisbea rhi- 

 zophorafolia, DC, which is the same with Quildingia psia- 

 dioides, Hook, in Bot. Misc. i. p. 122. t. 30. Steudel in his 

 1 Nomenclator Botanicus/ (a work I have not seen,) has, I 

 believe, enumerated, without description or synonyms, a Rhi- 

 zophora ceratophylloides; if the specific name be well founded 

 it can scarcely belong to this tribe of plants, but it may more 

 probably be a mere typographical error for R. caryophylloides. 



Carallia (from which Baraldeia, Pet. Th., Diatoma, Lour., 

 and Petalotoma, DC are not distinct) is readily distinguished 

 from the Linnaean genus Rhizophora by the unguiculate petals, 

 and from nearlv all the genera into which I have divided that 



