130 MONADELPHIA PENTANDRIA. AegiceTUS. 



petals. Anthem blue, at first erect, afterwards spirally bent. 

 Germ shorter than the filaments, sub-cylindric, hairy. Stylea 

 scarcely any. Stigma broad, somewhat rough. SUique long-, 

 slender, slightly incurvate, cylindric, acute, a little hairy. 

 Seeds numerous, round, rugose. 



CLASS XVI. 



MONADELPHIA PENTANDRIA. 



AEGICERAS. Schreb. gai. N. 398. 

 Calyx beneath five-leaved. Corol one-petalled, contorted. 

 Style single. Capsule curved, without perisperm. 



A.mnjus. Gferi.Sem.i.tA(J.], Lhin.sp.pl. €d.WilhUA0S2, 



Leaves obovate oblong, smooth. Flowers umbelled. 



Benrj. Hulsee. 



Rhizophora corniculata. Linn. sp. pi. G35. 



Pou Candel. Rheed. Mai. vi. t. 36. good. Rumphius's 

 figure, if of this, is too bad to be quoted. 



A small tree, a native of the Delta of the Ganges, and such 

 other places as are overflowed at spring-tides. Flowering 

 time, the hot season. 



Leaves from alternate to nearly verticelled, short-pctiol- 

 ed, obovate, and wedg'e-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. Cahjx 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 

 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- 



