108 XILIX. BALANOPHORES. 
receptacle, becoming concrete, unilocular ; stigma sessile, pel- 
tate. Syncearpium (compound fruit) globose, berry- -like. 
S. sanguinea, Sparm., the only species, grows on the roots of Hkebergia 
Capensis and Acacia Caffra, in Uitenhage and Albany. Stems 9-10 
inches high, an inch or more in diameter, dull flesh-coloured or reddish, 
branching, imbricated with scales below, ending in a panicled inflorescence. 
Smell offensive, like that of rotten fish. Male flowers purplish. Fruit like 
a mulberry. 
Orver L. RHIZOPHOREZ. 
Flowers bisexual, regular. Calyx-tube adnate to the ovary 
or nearly free; limb of 4-12 valvate lobes. Petals as many as 
the calyx-lobes, alternate with them, inserted below them, 
“often cut or jagged. Stamens as many, twice as many or 
more ; filaments separate ; anthers erect. Ovary more or less 
inferior, rarely quite superior, 2- or more celled; ovules in 
pairs, or few in each cell, pendulous; style simple. Fruit 1- 
or few-seeded. Seeds with or without albumen.—Trees or 
shrubs, with opposite leaves and axillary fiowers, either mari- 
time or submaritime. 
Calyx-tube adnate tothe ovary. Petals entire emargi- 
nate or 2-fid. Seed germinating within the fleshy, 
indehiscent fruit, exalbuminous. 
Calyx 4-fid. Petals 4... wi'ene «ope 2 REIZOR HORE 
Calyx 5-12-fid. Petals 5- 12, Q-fid. . . . 2. BRUGUIERA. 
Calyx-tube free. Petals 5, multifid. Capsule 3-celled. 3. WEIHEA. 
1. RHIZOPHORA, Linn. 
Calyx-tube obovate, adhering to the ovary ; limb of 4 oblong, 
persistent segments. Petals 4, oblong, coriaceous, entire or 
emarginate, conduplicate, with a double row of long, woolly, 
marginal hairs. Stamens 8; anthers nearly sessile, linear-ob- 
long. Ovary 2-celled ; ovules 2 "in each cell ; style conical, 
short, 2-furrowed ; stigma 2-toothed. Fruit ovate or oblong, 
girt near the base with the persistent calyx-lobes, at length 
perforated at the apex by the germinating embryo. Seed ex- 
albuminous.—/l. Cap. u. p. 513. 
Trees, growing on muddy seashores in hot countries, with quite entire, 
leathery leaves.—R. mucronata, Lam. (Mangrove), occurs near Natal. 
2. BRUGUIERA, Lam. 
Calyx-tube turbinate, adhering to the ovary ; limb of 5-12 
(or 13) persistent segments. Petals as many, oblong, 2-fid, 
coriaceous, conduplicate, each embracing 2 stamens, woolly on 
the margin. Stamens twice as many as “the petals, inserted in 
pairs opposite to them; filaments unequal, half as long as the 
