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in each cell, pendulous. Fruit 4-furro\ved, or separating into Ji dr 2 

 carpels. Distrib. Species J5 ; cosmopolitan. 



Myriophyllum intermedium^ DC. Piodr. Ill, 69. Leaves alternate, 

 solitary or in fascicles of two or three, sometimes in whorls, linear 

 entire or serrate, -5-1 in. long. Fruit axillary, oblono-, only about '05 

 in. long, with rounded and minutely scabrous ridges and shallow 

 furrows between, ultimately separating into its component carpels. 

 Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. Vol. I, pt. 1, 634 ; Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. 

 II, 433. iV. indicum, Wight 111. t. 102, {exclude the fruit). M. vaHse- 

 foliiim, Hook. Ic. PI. t. 289. M. liueare, Heyne MSS. Ealoragis oligan- 

 tha, W. & A. Prodr. 338 ; Wight Ic. t. 1061 (riot of Am.) 



Malacca; Griffith (probably on Mount Ophir). Distrib. Moun- 

 tains of the Malayan Archipelago and of the South of British India • 

 Australia, New Zealand, South America. 



Order XLIV. RHIZOPHORE^. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite and stipulate (alternate and 

 exstipulate in Anisophyllea), usually coriaceous, glabrous; stipules 

 interpetiolar, very caducous. Floivers axillary, usually bisexual (uni- 

 sexual in Aiiisophyllea) , surrounded at the base by connate or cupuli- 

 form bracts, or ebracteate. Calyx more or less adnate to the ovary ; 

 limb produced beyond the ovary, 4-14.1obed ; lobes valvate, persistent. 

 Petals equal in number to but usually smaller than the sepals, entiie, 

 emarginate, 2-fid or lacerate. Stamens usually twice the number of the 

 petals, in pairs, opposite to and partly embraced by them ; rarely inde- 

 finite [Kanddia) ; anthers 2-celled, rarely multi-loculate (Bhizophora). 

 Ovary more or less adnate to the calyx, from 5-1 -celled by solution of 

 the septa ; styles connate (distinct in Anisophyllea) ; stigma of ten lobed ; 

 ovules usually 2 in each cell, pendulous. Fruit coriaceous or woody, 

 crowned or surrounded by the calyx-limb, mostly indehiscent, 1 -celled, 

 1-seeded. Seed pendulous, arillate or not ; albumen fleshy or ; embryo 

 inverted, small if surrounded by albumen, elongated if exalbuminous ; 

 radicle macropodous in the tribe Rhizophore^, perforating the apex of 

 the pericarp and germinating while the fruit still adheres to the tree. — 

 Distrib. Tropical plants ; many sharing with an arboreal vegetation the 

 muddy shores of the estuaries of rivers. Genera J 7, species about 70. 

 Leaves opposite, stipulate ; style connate : — 

 Tribr I. Ehizophore.^. Embryo exalbuminous, with a large 

 radicle germinating while the fruit is still on the tree : — 

 Calyx 4-lobed ; petals 4, entire ; stamens 8 ; ovary 2- 

 celled ... ... ... ... ... 1. Rhizophora. 



Calyx 8-14-Iobed ; petals 8-14, 2-lobed or deeply emar- 

 ginate ; ovary 2-4-celled ; stamens 16-28 ... ... 2. Bruguiera. 



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