316 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Mcrves faintly ^vhen dry; the lower dull and evenious ; length 3-3*5 in., 

 breadth '8 -1*25 in., petiole -75-1 in. Cymes axillary, longer than the 

 petioles, laxly 2-5-flowered, erect. Flowers erect, •4-*5 in. long, their 

 peduncles slightly shorter. Calyx-tuhe cylindrio, crowned by 8 lanceo- 

 late erect lobes about a fourth of its own length. Petals as many as 

 the calyx-lobes but shorter, oblong ; the apex broad, eraarginate and 

 bearing five white short hairs, otherwise glabrous. Stamens 16, un- 

 equal, two embraced by each petal. Ovary 3-celled, fruiting-calyx 

 C3^1indric, ribbed, 1 in. long, the fruit concealed in it ; radicle growing to 

 4-5 in. before falling. Wight 111. 210 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. Vol. I., Pt. 

 1, 588 ; Kurz For. Flora Burma, II, 449. B. cylindrica, W. & A. Prod. 

 311. Rhizophora cylindrica, Roxb, Hort. Beng. 36. R. parvijlora, Roxb. 

 Fl. Ind. II, 461: Wall. Cat. 4877. Kanilia parviflora, Biurae Mus. 

 Bot. Lugd.-Bat. I, 140 t. 30; Dalz. & Gibs. Flora Bombay 95. 

 Tidal Forests in all the provinces. Distkib. Malaya. 



3. Ceiuops, Am. 



Shrubs. Leaves opposite, ovate or obovate. Stipules caducous, 

 axillary. Cymes condensed. Calyx 5-6-merous, surrounded at the base 

 by connate bracts. Petals 5-6, inserted at the base of a 10-12-lobed 

 fleshy disc, emarginate or truncate ; their apices ciliate or with clavate 

 or capitate bristles. Stamens 10-12, filaments inserted between the lobes 

 of the disc ; anthers 2-celled. Ovar?/ 3-celled (at least above), cells 2- 

 ovuled; style short, stigma simple. Fruit obovoid, the reflexed limb 

 of the calyx persistent at its base, 1-celled, 1-seeded. Germivation as 

 in Ehizophora. DiSTRiB. Species 7 ; river-mouths, tropics of Old World. 



Flowers sessile ; petals sefcose-ciliate at the apex ; anthers 



linear, longer than the filaments ... ... ... 1. C. Roxhurghiana. 



Flowers pedicelled ; petals with 3 short clavate processes 



at apex ; anthers ovate, acute, much shorter than filaments 2. C. Candolleana. 



1. Ceriops RoxBURGHiANA, Am. in Ann. Nat. Hist. 1, 364. A 

 glabrous dwarf tree or shrub 2-4 feet high. Leaves elliptic, slightly 

 obovate, or orbicular-elliptic, the apex rounded, the edges slightly re- 

 curved, rather narrowed at the base, (often somewhat abruptly) ; main 

 nerves faint on both surfaces ; the upper surface shining, the lower dull ; 

 length 2-25-3-75 in., breadth 1-5-2-25 in., petiole •75-1-15 in. Cymes 

 axillary, shortly pedunculate, not branched ; flowers '2 in. long, sessile, 

 densely crowded. Calyx with 5 or 6 ovate-lanceolate sub-acute lobes. 

 Petals oblong- obovate, the apex emaiginate or sub-truncate, setose- 

 ciliate. Anthers linear, much longer than the short filaments. Frttit 

 clavate, '5 or 6 in. long, the protruded radicle a few inches long, clavate, 

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