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2, CERIOPS, Arnott. 



Slinibs or small trees witli liiick leafy branches. Leaves oi)posite, 

 elliptic or obovate, entire; stipules interpetiolar, caducous. Flowers 

 subcapitate ; peduncles axillary. Calyx 5-()-iiierous, surrounded at the 

 base by connate bracteoles ; tube short, adnate to the ovary at the base ; 

 lobes coriaceous. Petals 5-6, inserted at the base of a 10-12-lobed 

 fleshy disk', truncate or emarginate, ap[)€ndiculate with clavate bristles. 

 Stamens lU-12; filaments slender, inserted between the lobes of the 

 disk; anthers oblong or linear, obtuse or acuminate. Ovary i- 

 inferior, 3-celled (at least above), produced b ^yond the calyx into a 

 fleshy cone : ovules 2 in each cell, pendulous near its apex ; style short ; 

 stigma simple. Fruit coriaceous, ovoid, girt above the base uith the 

 reflexed calyx-lobe>!, 1-celled. 8eed 1, pendulous, germinating as iu 

 HMzojthora ; cotyledons conferruminate ; protruding radicle elongate, 

 clavate. — Disteib. Muddy shores of Tropical Asia, Africa, Australia, 

 and Polynesia ; species 7. 



1. Ceriops Candolleana, Am. in Ann. Nat. Hut. v. 1 (1838) 

 p. 304. A glabrous shrub or small tree 3-6 ft. high ; branchlefs 

 marked with the scars of fallen leaves and stipules. Leaves 2-4 by 

 lJ-2 in., coriaceous, obovate-oblong, rounded at the apex, sometimes 

 slightly emarginate, glabrous, much attenuated at the base ; petioles 

 \-\ in. long, rugose, glabrous. Flowers in axillary, peduncled, branched 

 cymes ; pedicels short, stout. Calyx ;| in, long ; lobes 5, oblong, sub- 

 obtuse. Petals 5, white, shorter than the calyx, oblong-obovate, 

 truncate or emarginate, furnished at the apex with 3 short clavate 

 appendages, glabrous, with a strong mid-nerve at the back of the petal. 

 Stamens 10, about as long as the petals, alternately long and short. 

 Fruit slightly conical, j-f in. long; protruded radicle sometimes 

 reaching 1 ft. before falling, gradually thickening to near the apex and 

 then becoming acute, deeply grooved and angled, reddish-brown. 

 Fl. B. I. V. 2, p. 436 ; Wight. Icon. t. 240 ; Bedd. For. Man. in Flor. 

 Sylvat. p. xcix, t. 13, fig. 5 ; Aitch. Pb. & 8ind PI. p. 59 ; Trim. Fl. Cevl. 

 V. 2, p. 152 ; Talb. Trees, Bomb. ed. 2, p. 159 ; Watt, Diet. Ecou. Prod. 

 V. 2, p. 261. — ITowers : July-Sept. A'een. Kirrari ; Cliauri. 



Tid.al swamps along the coast. Konkan : Law\; Elephanta (Bombay), -S/cx^Xs, 524! 

 SiNi) : Stocks !, Vicary. — Distrib. India (muddy shores and tidal creeks) ; Ceylon, 

 Tropics of the Old World. 



The bark supplies an excellent tanning material, and a decoction of it is used to 

 stop htoniorrhage and as an application to malignant ulcers. A decoction of the 

 shoots is used as a substitute for quinine on the African coast. See Watt, Diet. Econ. 

 Prod. 1. c. 



3. KANDELIA, Wight & Arn. 



A small tree with terete leafy branches. Leaves opposite, oblong, 

 obtuse, entire ; stipuh'S interpetiolar, caducous. Flowers large, few, on 

 axillary dichotomously-branched peduncles, white. Calyx 5-6-merous, 

 surrounded at the base by connate bracteoles ; tube short, adnate to the 

 ovary ; lobes linear. Petals 5-6, inserted at the base of a fleshy disk, 

 bifid ; lobes capillaceo-multifid. Stamens indefinite ; filaments filiform ; 

 anthers small, oblong. Ovary ^-inferior, 1-celled, produced be^'ond 

 the calyx into a fleshy cone ; ovules 6, aflixed in pairs to a central 



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