10 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Penhisida. 



DCABATS'GA SONNERATIOIDES, Ham. in Trans. Linn. Soc. XVII, 178. 

 A tree 60-100 feet high. Leaves thinly coriaceous, oblong to ovate- 

 oblong, 7-12 in. long and 2'5-4 in. broad, glabions, glaucous beneath. 

 Flou'ers 2-2*5 in. across, on thick-jointed pedicels tapering to the base ; 

 panicle short, few-flowered, drooping. Petals 4-7, about 1 in. long. 

 Cafsule ovoid-globose, 1-1'5 in. in diam. Hook. fil. 111. Him. PL t. 11 ; 

 Kurz For. Flor. Burm. I, 525 ; Clarke in Hook. fil. Flor. Br. Ind. II, 579. 

 D. gntndiflora^ Walp. Rep. II, 114. Lager sir ceviia grandiflora, Roxb. 

 Hort. Beiig. 38 ; Flor. Ind. II, 503 ; DC. Prodr. Ill, 93 ;' Wall. Cat. 

 2111 ; Blume Mus. Bot. I, 109. Leptospartion grandiftorum. Griff. Ic. 

 PL Asiat. t. 591. 



PEiiAK ; Scortechini, King's Collector 5912. Andamans and Nicobars, 

 King's Collectors. DiSTRiB. Burma, Assam, Khasia, Eastern Himalaya. 



6. Sonneratia, Linn. f. 



Ever-green trees, growing near the sea, glabrous. Leaves opposite, 

 petioled, coriaceous, entire. Flowers without bracts, large, three to- 

 gether at the summits of the branches^ or axillary and solitary. Calijx 

 thick, coriaceous ; lobes 4-8, lanceolate, valvate. Petals 0, or as many 

 as the calyx-lobes and linear- oblong. Stamens numerous, inserted in a 

 circular band on the calyx-tube. Ovary nearly free, or adnate at the 

 base to the calyx-tube, many-celled ; style long, stigma capitate ; ovules 

 numerous, ascending, placentas axile. Berry subglobose, supported by 

 the persistent calyx, 10-15-celled. Seeds very many, small, curved, 

 angular, embedded in pulp ; cotyledons convolute. DiSTaiB. Species 

 4-5 ; on the tropical sea- shores of the Eastern hemisphere. 



With petals ... ... ... ... ... 1. S. acida. 



Without petals : — 



Calyx in bud ovoid, obtuse ... ... ... ... 1. S. acida, 



var. Griffithii. 



Calyx in bud narrowly ellipsoid, tapering to both ends ... 2. S. alba. 



1. Sonneratia acida, Linn. fil. Suppl. 252. A small tree 10-35 

 feet high, the branchlefcs jointed and 4-angled. Leaves oblong to oblong- 

 obovate or obovate, tapering into a broad short petiole, blunt and 

 sometimes retuse ; length 2-3 in., breadth 1'35 to 2 in. in the obovate 

 forms. Floiver-biids solitary, ellipsoid, the calyx-tube not angled; tlie 

 calyx when fully developed 1 in. long, its lobes 6-8, the lobes triangular, 

 reflexed. Petals linear, slightly broader towards the apex than at the 

 base. Style exserted, sometimes 3 in. long, stigma capitate. Capsule 

 depressed-globose, sometimes as much as 2 in. in diam., the apex some- 

 what concave, the walls thick, lloxb. Hort. Beng. 38 ; Flor. Ind. II, 

 506 ; Roth Nov. Sp. 233 ; DC. Prodr. Ill, 231 ; Wall. Cat. 3641 



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