* 
Se du 
208 ILLUSTRATIONS OF INDIAN BOTANY. 
eae, is not distinct from Carallia: and Olisbia 
referred by Lindley and Arnott under the name 
dog 
sé 
that plants of this order occupy a wid 
s of reat rivers, in tropical ie | 
- Arnott’s paper gives a more precise account 0 ae 
iE 
GrocraraicaL Distrisution. I mentioned above . 
range, inhabiting salt marshes, especially near the mouth 
“ Martius in his observations on India plants in the< Algemeine Zeitung’ for January 1834, 
and ‘ 4nn. des Se. Nat, n. 5. i. p, 
- Pp 0, : «ig 
in East India according to Wallich’s list: there are however only eight noticed by Dr. Wallich, 
but this number may be made up of the i 
the Indian ocean, from the 
Arabia Felix and Bengal ; 
to be confined to the Kast 
mouth of the Ganges ; two 
and in Penang, and the re eem to have he 
alluded to by different authors) in Ceylon, Malabar, Bengal, Java, and Amboyna. Tot 
th ed, ‘oxburgh’s two species of Carallia 
bg ; onl N exceptio sist in the two or perhaps 
three species of Rhizophora and one Carallig aa es Sy arya hemmed 
Bruguieria that are found in New Holland 3 but of these, two are also natives of India.” 
ae Properties AND Usgs. On this head no very precise information exists, the bark of seyeral 
Pree J8.0ah ‘n used as a febrifuge. In the Antilles the fruit of Rizop 
mangle is said to be sweet and edible and the juice is fe 
grow ve With K the ete branches 
ho 
~~ : have an opportunj wettiae’ th reat deli- 
y. The wood of - mucronata is said ep hbew: “pportunity of procuring them, a g a 
mr — a Bruguieria Rheedei 
<> ut is chiefly employed for burci,, 
a ek oo Ee bate 
