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W. & A. Prodr. 327 ; Wight Ic. t. 340 ; Griff. Notnl. IV, 652 ; Blume 

 Mns. Bot. I, 336 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. I, 496; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb, 

 Flor. 98; Brand. For. Flor. 242; Kurz For. Fl. Burm. J, 526; Clarke 

 in Hook. fil. flor. Br. Ind. II, 580 ; Koorders and Valeton, Bijdr. T, 198. 

 Rhizophora caseolaris, Linn. Sp. Pi. 635. Auhletia caseolaris, Gaertn, 

 Frnct. 1,479, t. 78. 



Pbnang; Curtis 1108. VERkK ; Scortechini, Wray 2494. Andamans ; 

 Kurz, Prain, King^s Collectors, DiSTRin. tho coasts of Burma, the 

 Deltas of the Britisli Indian Rivers and of those of the Malayan Islands. 

 Var. Griffitliii, Leaves obovate, petals none. S.. Griffithii, Kurz 

 Pegu Report, App. B. 54 ; For. Flora Burma, T, 526 ; Clarke in Flor, Br. 

 Ind. II, 580. S. alba, Griff, (not of Smith) Notul. IV, 652. S. neglecta, 

 Bl. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. I, 338 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. I, 498. 

 Peuak; Scor f echini *^67. Distiub. Burma. 

 The fruit of this vnriety is unknown ; bnt the scanty material, so far as it ^oes, 

 appears to show that the plant is merely an apetalous form of S. acida with leaves 

 more obovate than is usual in that species. I have therefore reduced it to a form 

 of the latter. Blume described other three species of Sonnerntia with petals, 

 viz., 8. ohovata, S. evenia, and S. lanceolata separating them chiefly by chainci-ers 

 taken from the shapes of the leaves. But in this genus the form of the leaf is very 

 variable, and I doubt whether these three species are more than forms of S. acida. 

 S. Pagapat, Blanco, and 8. ovalis, Korth. are probably also forms of it. 



2. SoNNERATiA ALBA, Smith in Rees Cyclop. XXXIII, No. 2. A small 

 tree 10-15 feet high ; young branches rather terete. Leaves obovate or 

 obovate-reniform, decurrent ou the short petiole, blunt or retuse, 2-4 in. 

 long and. nearly as broad, petiole •125-*25 in. Floiuer-buds narrowly 

 ellipsoid, tapering to each end, very slightly ridged; the fully developed 

 calyx sharply angled ; its lobes 6-8, oblong-lanceolate, acute. Petals none. 

 Flouiers about the size of those of S. acida, usually 2 or 3 together. 

 Capsule broadly obconic, ribbed, 1 in. or more in diam. at the apex. 

 DC. Prodr. Ill, 231 ; Blume Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. I, 338 ; Miq. Flor. Ind. 

 Bat. I, Pt. I, 497 ; Kurz For. Flora Burma I, 526 ; Clarke in Flor. 

 Br. Ind. II, 580 ; Koorders and Valeton, Bijdr. I, 200. S. Mossamhi- 

 censis, Klotsch in Peters Reis. Mossamb. Bot. t. 12. S. acida, Benth. 

 {not of Linn, fil.) Flor. Aastral. Ill, 301 ; Hiern in Oliv. Flor. Trop. 

 Afric. II, 483*; Wall. Cat. 3641 B. 



Singapore ; Wallich. Distrib. Java, Moluccas. 



Order XLIX. ONAGRACB^. 



Herbs, rarely undershrubs, sometimes aquatic. Leaves opposite or 

 alternate, entire or toothed, undivided (in Trapa the submerged leaves 

 pinnatipartite), exstipulate. Floxvers hermaphrodite, mostly axillary 

 and solitary, or spiked or racomed towards the ends of the branches, 



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