Lv. (()mi!Ui;ta(i:.i:. 483 



|I-J in. in diain., on long axillai'v simple peduncles wliich often bear 

 leafy bracts. Calyx densely pubescent. Fruit tomentose, broader lliau 

 long, i in. long by | in. broad (including the wings), crowned by the 

 pubescent calyx-tube, wiiicli is as long as the nucleus, and sometimes 

 also by the subpersistent limb ; wings pubescent in the upper part, 

 jagged on the margins, eacli wing produced upwards beyond the top of 

 the nucleus into a triangular lobe. 



Gujakat: Panch Maliuls, DaLclll 



I liave seen only one speeiuien from Bombay marked as above in Herb. Kew. — 

 DiSTiiiB. Tndiii (Central Provinces, Gujarat). 



3. Anogeissus pendula, Eil/ew. in Joura. As. Soc. Benj. v. 21 

 (1853) p. 171. A small tree; branches pendulous; young parts 

 pubescent. Leaves |-lj by g-| in., alternate and subopposite, elliptic 

 or obovate, obtuse or acute, usually mucronate, more or less clothed on 

 both sides with appressed pubescence, or sometimes glabrous, attenuated 

 attheba.se; main nerves 5-7 pairs, arcuate, with reticulate venation 

 between ; petioles y^-g iu. long. Flowers in small globose heads \ in. 

 across v\ hen in flower ; peduncles usually solitary, not branched, pubes- 

 cent. Fruit subquadrate, ultimately glabrous, the beak less than half 

 the length of the nucleus. Fl. B. 1. v. 2, p. 451. Aiwc/eissus mi/rfifolia, 

 Wall. Cat. 4017; Eoyle, 111. p. 209.— Flowers : May-June. Yeiik. 

 jDhao : Dhanlcra. 



Gujarat : Deesa, Stocks ! 



There is but one poor specimen in Ilfrb. Kew. labelled as above. It is the only 

 specimen I have seen from the Eombaj^ Presidency. — Distrib. India (N.W. Provinces, 

 Uandelkiiand, fiajputana). 



4. LUMNITZERA, AVilld. 



Large glabrous shrubs or small trees growing along tropical shores 

 and in salt-marshes along with mangroves. Leaves clustered towards 

 the ends of the branches, alternate, thickly coriaceous, subsessile, ob- 

 ovate-cuueate, entire or crenate. Flowers in short axillary or terminal 

 spikes or racemes, scarlet or white. Calyx-tube elongate, oblong, attenu- 

 ated at both ends, produced above tlie ovary, with 2 adnate bracteoles 

 near the base ; limb campanulate, 5-lobed, persistent. Petals 5, oblong, 

 spreading. 8tamens 5-10. Ovary 1-celled; ovules 2-5, pendulous 

 from the apex of the cell ; style filiform, glabrous ; stigma simple. 

 Fruit woody, ellipsoid-oblong or ovoid, crowned with the persistent 

 calyx. Seed solitary ; cotyledons convolute. — Distkib. ISea-shores of 

 the Tropics of the Old World and Polynesia ; species 2. 



1. Lumnitzera racemosa, Willd. in Ges. Naturf. Fr. Neue Schr. 

 V. 4 (1803) p. 187. A tall glabrous shrub or small tree. Leaves sessile, 

 fleshy, crowded at the ends of the branches, 1-2.| by |-| in., oblanceolate 

 or obovato, glabrous, shallowly crenate or entire, rounded or emarginate 

 at the apex, tapering much towards the base ; main nerves 3-5 pairs, 

 indistinct. Flowers se.ssile, in short lax axillary spikes. Calyx |-4 iu. 

 long; tube fusiform, glabrous; teeth obtuse, ^ in. long," ciliolate; 

 bracteoles 2, adnate to the calyx-tube, about p^-'in. long, ovate, acute, 

 one of them higher up the tube than the other" Petals white, oblono-, 

 subacute. Stamens 10, almost equalling the petals ; the alternate 



