494 -XLYi. EuizoPHORE^, [Ceriops. 



X 



as petals ; filaments filiform, longer tlian the oblong or linear anthers. Ovary 

 half-inferior, S-celled, with 2 pendulous ovules in each cell; style filiform; 

 stigma undivided. Truit ovoid or conical, the persistent calyx-segments sur- 

 ronnding it below the middle. Seed solitary, without albumen, the rapidly 

 enlarged funicle penetrating through the summit of the fruit, — Trees or shrubs, 

 with the habit and inflorescence of BMzoj)Iiora, but usually with smaller leaves 

 and smaller more numerous flowers. 



A STTiall genus, limited to the tropical seacoasts of iho. Old World, the Australian species 

 being the commonest one in Asia. Although the genns appears to be universally adopted, it 

 can scarcely be considered as more than a section of Rhizophora. 



1. C, Candolleana, Arn. in Jun, Nat. IlisL i. 364. A tall evergreen 

 glabrous shrub or small tree. Leaves obovate or broadly oblong, ly to 3 in. 

 or in luxuriant specimens 3 in. long, coriaceous, entire. Flowers in small 

 dense almost capitate cymes, on short recurved axillary peduncles, with a pair 

 of small short thick concave bracts under each ramification, and rather larger 

 ones under each flower. ^ Calyx sessile within the bracts, about 3 lines long, 

 divided down to the adnate part. Petals shorter than the calyx, emarginnte, 

 with 2 to 5 clavate setae irregularly placed in the notch or on the lobes. Sta- 

 mens alternately inserted opposite the petals and between them, but the an- 

 thers embraced in pairs by the induplicate margins of the petals. Fruit 

 conical, about ^ in. long. — "Wight, Ic. t. 240; Ehizo^Iwm TimoriensiSy DC, 

 Prod, iii, 33. 



N. Australia. Careening Bay, N.W. coast, A. Cunningham ; mangrove beach of the 

 Yictoria river, i\ Mueller ; Arnbem N. Bay^ R. Brown ; Port Essington, Armstrong, 

 Queensland. Islands of the N,E. coast, P. Mueller, and others. 

 The species extends over the seacoasts of E. India and the Archipelago. 



3. BEUGUIERA, Lam. 



Calvx-tnbe turbinate or campanulate, adnate at the base to the ovary, tlie 

 upper portion free, lined by the disk ; lobes 10 to 15 or rarely 8 or 9, narro^v 

 and thick. Petals as many, 2-lobed, with or without setoe at the top. Sta- 

 mens twice as many as petals; anthers linear, but usually shorter than the 

 filaments. Ovary inferior, 2- to 4-celled, with 2 pendulous ovules in each 

 cell ; style filiform, with 2 to 4 minute stigmatic lobes. Fruit turbinate, 

 crowned by the persistent calyx-lobes. Seeds solitary, without albumen, the 

 rapidly enlarged radicle penetrating through the summit of the fruit. — Trees, 

 with the habit oi RhizopJiora. Flowers solitary or few together, on short ax- 

 illary recurved peduncles. 



The genns is widely spread along the tropical seacoasts of the Old World. The two 

 Australian species are both common Asiatic ones. 



Flowers above 1 in. long. Petals with several setec at the end. . - 1. B^ Rheediu 

 Flowers under 1 in. long. Petals without seise at the end . - • . 2. B. ggmnorrhiza. 



1. B. Rheedii, Bhme, Emm, PI. Jav. 92. A glabrous evergreen tree. 

 Leaves ovate or oblong-elliptical, very shortly acuminate, 3 to 5 in. long, nar- 

 rowed into a rather long petiole, coriaceous. Stipules oblong, 1 to 2 in. long, 

 very deciduous. Flowers solitary, on short recurved axillary peduncles, with- 

 out bracts. Calyx very thick and rigid, from a little more than 1 in. to la- 

 in, long, the narrow turbinate tube about one-third the whole length, tne 



