Proceedings Am. Philos. Soc. Vol. LVI. No. 7 



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Branch, inflorescences and flowers of Rhizophora. 



Fertilized flowers, fruits and emerging seedlings. 



Mature seedlings dropping from the fruits, showing the conical plumule 

 on the proximal end of the freed seedling and the cotyledonary sheath or 

 collar from which the plumule has just slipped out and seedlings with bud 

 expanded, and several internodes of growth made. 



