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deeply ridged and farrowed. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Vol. I, Pt. 1, 591 ; 

 Knrz For. Flora Burma, I, 448 ; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. I, 436 ; Trimen 

 Flora Ceylon I, 153. Bhizophora decandra, Roxb. Hort. Beug. 36; 

 Wall. Cat. 4875. 



At the mouths of rivers, probably in all the provinces. Distrib. 

 Tropical tidal forests of the old World. 



2. Ceriops Candolleana, Arn. in Ann. Nat. Hist. I, 364. A glab- 

 rous shrub or dwarf tree 3-6 feet high. Leaves obovate-oblong, obtuse, 

 sometimes emarginate, much and gradually attenuate to the base, the 

 edges slightly reflexed, main nerves slightly visible on both surfaces 

 when dry, length l'75-2 in., breadth 1-1*5 in., petiole '6-1 in. Cymes 

 axillary, peduncled, branched ; flowers '25 in. long, on short pedicels. 

 Calyx-lohes 5, oblong, sub-obtuse. Petals oblong-obovate, the apex 

 truncate or emarginate and with 3 short clavate appendages. Stamens 

 10, nearly as long as the petals ; the anthers ovate, acute, only about a 

 fourth of the length of the filaments. Fruit clavate, '5 in. long, the 

 piotruded radicle a few inches to a foot long, (rarely longer,) giadually 

 thickening to near the apex and then becoming acute, deeply grooved 

 and ridged. Blame Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. I, 142 ; Wight 111. 209 ; 

 Icones t. 240 ; Miq. Fl. Ini. Bat. Vol. I, Pt. 1, 590; Brandis For. Flora 

 218; KurzFor. Flora Burm. I, 448; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 436; 

 Trimen Flora Ceylon I, 152. BhizopJiora timorensis, DC. Prod. Ill, 32. 



At the mouths of rivers and in tidal swamps iu all the provinces. 

 Distrib. Tropics of old World. 



4. Kandelia, Wight & Arn, 



A small tree. Leaves opposite, coriaceous, oblong, obtuse ; stipules 

 caducous. Peduncles axillary, dichotomously branched, few- flowered. 

 Flowers rather large, white. Calyx 5-6-merous, surrounded at the base 

 by connate bracteoles, adnate to the base of the ovary ; lobes linear — 

 lanceolate, valvate. Petals 5 or 6, bifid; the lobes multifid, segments ca- 

 pillary. Stamens indefinite, anthers small ; filaments slender, exserted. 

 Ovary 1-celled, half -inferior, prolonged above the calyx into a fleshy 

 cone ; style slender, stigma 3-iobed ; ovules 6, fixed in pairs to a central 

 column. Fruit ovoid, girt at the base by the reflexed limb of the calyx, 

 1-celled, 1-seeded. Radicle fusiform, very acuminate. Germination as 

 in Bhizophora. Distrib. A single species ; British India, Malaya. 



1. Kandelia Rheedii, W. & A. Prodr. I, 310. Leaves narrowly 

 elliptic-oblong, obtuse, narrowed at the base, glabrous, 2-4 in. long, the 

 petiole •4-6 in. Peduncles longer than the petiole, 2-3-chotomous, 4-9- 

 tlowered. Flowers -Q-S in. long, white. Fruit 1 in. Jong, obovoid ; the 

 protruded radicle 6-15 in. long, cylindric, not ridged. Arn. in Ann. Nat. 



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