Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 157 



142; Wight Icon. t. 146; Miq. PI, Ind. Bat. II. 1031; Scheff. Myrs. 

 97; Benth. Fl. Austral. IV. 277; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 137; 

 Bedd. M. Sylv. CXXXIX. Anal. pi. XIX. III. ; Clarke in Hook. f. 

 PI. Br. Ind. III. 533; Trimen Fl. Ceyl. III. 74; Cooke Fl. Bomb. 

 II. 88; Koord. & Val. Bijdr. V. 276; Pax in Engl. & Prantl 

 Pflanzenfam. IV. i. 97, fig. 57; Schimp. Strandfl. 44, figs. 1, 2; 

 Prain Bang. PI. 645. M. fragrans, Koenig Ann. of Bot. I. 129, 

 t. 3; Wall. Cat. 2326; Wight in Hook. Bot. Misc. III. 84, t. 21. 

 yE. minus, A. DC. I.e. 142. ^^J. Malaspincea, DC. I.e. 143. .^. 

 ohovatum, Blume Bijdr. 693. ^. corniculatum, Blanco Fl. Filip. 79 ; 

 Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Bang. XLVI. II. 227 and For. Fl. III. 114 ; 

 Maz Monog. Myrs. 55, fig. 8. Bhizophora cornicidata, Linn. Sp. PI. 

 Ed. 3 (1764), 635. " Pou-Kandel," Eheede Hort. Mai. VI. 36. Mangimn 

 fruticosum corniculatum, Eumph. Harb. Amb. III. 117. 



Penang : Wallich 232Q ; Curtis 52, 513. Perak: King's Collector 

 4961. Malacca : Maingay (K.D.) 1017 ; Griffith (K.D.) 3538. Singa- 

 pore : Bidley 2801a, 3632a. — Distrib. Sea-coast of India from Sind to 

 Ceylon, the Sundarbans, Burma, and the Andaman Islands ; eastwards 

 to the Malay Islands, South China, the Philippines and Australia. 

 One of the coast plants included under the general name of 

 " Mangroves." 



Order LXXI. SAPOTACE^. 



Trees or shrubs, with milky juice, generally evergreen, young parts 

 often rusty-tomantose. Leaves alternate, rarely sub-opposite, coriaceous 

 or rarely membranous, entire, penniveined ; stipules none or very 

 caducous. Flowers usually hermaphrodite, small or medium-sized, 

 solitary or fascicled in the axils of the leaves, sometimes (Sarcosperma) 

 paniculate ; bracts and bracteoles very small or wanting. Calyx 

 inferior, persistent or deciduous ; lobes 4 to 8, much imbricate, 

 occasionally biseriate with the outer ones valvate. Corolla gamo- 

 petalous ; tube short, campanulate or urceolate ; lobes as many as, 

 or 2 to 4 times as many as, those of the calyx. Stamens inserted 

 on the corolla-tube in 1 to 2 series and opposite to them, sometimes 

 alternating with staminodes ; filaments short, erect ; anthers ovate- 

 lanceolate or linear-sagittate, 2-celled, the connective sometimes pro- 

 duced. Disk hypogynous, often inconspicuous or wanting. Ovary 

 superior, sessile, often villous, 2-5- or more celled ; style shortly conical 

 or elongate-subulate, glabrous ; stigma terminal, punctiform ; ovules 

 solitary in the cells, attached to the inner angle. Fruit an indehiscent, 

 1-8-seeded berry, pericarp usually fleshy. Seeds, if solitary, conform to 



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