CHAP. I.] RHIZOPHOREiE. 353 



ORDER LXXL— MEMECYLEiE. 

 Tropical trees and shrubs, with white or 

 purpHsh flowers, and eatable fruit. 



ORDER LXXIL— COMBRETACE^ 



This order is well-known from the two beau- 

 tiful climbing stove-plants, Comhretum purpu- 

 reum^ and Quisqualis indica. The flowers of the 

 former are disposed in racemes, which have a 

 peculiarly light and graceful appearance, from 

 the great length of their stamens ; and as 

 they are of a brilliant scarlet, the name of Pur- 

 pureum is very ill applied to the species. The 

 flowers of Quisqualis indica have a very long 

 slender tube to the calyx, and five velvet-like 

 petals, which vary in colour from a yellowish 

 white to red, changing in the course of one day. 



ORDER LXXIII.— VOCHYSIEiE, 

 Brazilian trees and shrubs, with yellow 

 flowers, and stipulate, feather-nerved leaves. 



ORDER LXXIV.— RHIZOPHORE^. 



The Mangroves (Rhizophora) are tropical 

 trees, growing in the soft mud of rivers, particu- 



