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glabra, 2-3 mm. longa. CarpeUa villosa; styii 3 mm. longi. 

 If tactus ellipsoideus, coccineus, 15 em. longus. 



N.AW India. Murree, on lower forest road and in the gullies, 



Miss E. M\ Saunders, June-July, 1915. 



This is recorded by Miss Saunders as an erect shrub with 

 long, straight thorns and white petals. With the general habit 

 and characters of R. macrophylla, Lindl., it is more comparable 

 with R. Fcdtschenkoana, Kegel (as shown m Bot. Mag, t. 7770), 

 m the .shape and texture of the leaflets and colour of the flowers. 

 It may also be compared with the Western Chinese R. MurivUu, 

 Eehder & Wils., though that has more coriaceous and less dentate 

 leaflets and longer pedicels. Nothing like it has been found 



among Asiatic Roses, and as comparatively little is known about 



the flora of the Murree Hills, which reach an altitude of 7000 

 to 8000 ft., it is here described as new. The materials sent 

 include both flowering and fruiting specimens. 



918. Bruguiera Hainesii, (\ G. Rogers [Khizophora< cae- 

 Ehizophoreae] ; species B. gymnorhizne, Lam., B. eriopetalae, 

 W. & A., B. caryophylloidei, Blume, quodammodo affinis, ab 

 omnibus trunci magniludine corticis charactere facile distingui- 

 tur; ab illis duabus pedumulis 2-floris, sepalis brevioribus,* 

 petalis multo brevioribus, petalorum lobis prope apices extus 

 leviter pilosis, ab Jiac floribtts multo majoribus, calyeis tubo 

 ■cyliudrico-obconico neque ellipsoideo sepalis erectis differt. 



Arbor magna ad 24 m. alta et 70 em. trunci diametro, cortice 

 rugoso. Folia auguste-elliptica, utrinque cuneata, basi in 

 petiolum 2-5-4 cm. longum angustata, 9-13 cm. longa, 4-7 cm. 

 lata. Pedunculi breves, 7-lo mm. longi, 2-flori; pedicelli 

 G-8 mm. longi. Flore* 2*2-2-5 cm. longi,* calvcis tubo sepalis 

 aequali vel lougiore leviter 10-angulato nunquam jugis prominu- 

 lis instructo. Scpala lineari-subulata 10. Petala 2-loba, 

 7-8 mm. longa, marginibus inferne villosis, versus loborum 

 a pices extus leviter pilosa, loborum apice 2-3 setis cum una seta 

 longiore in fissura instructa. 



Burma. Mergui, in Tidal Forests, Rogers 456 M. 

 This new species differs from both Bruguiera gymnorhiza and 

 and B. erio petala in the size of the tree and in the bark. Both 

 these species are the same size. They attain a height of 

 60-80 ft. with a clean bole of from 40-60 ft., with a girth at 

 breast height over the bark of from 40 to 54 in. The new 

 species grows to a height of 100 ft., with a clean bole of 75 it., 

 and a much rougher -omewhat tesselated bark, and a girth of 

 £0 to 72 in. It i^ a distinctly taller and larger tree. 



The tree was not uncommon in the Panadaung Reserve (im- 

 mediatelv to the south of the Bokgyi creek, about 30 miles up the 

 coast (North) of Mergui Civil Station ) and will, I feel confident, 

 be bound to be fairly common throughout the Mergui l)i -trict. 

 The specimens were' collected on the 2nd January, 1919. We 

 had considerable difficulty in finding- flowers with petals then. 

 The ground on which the trees stood was only inundated for a 

 few hours at fairly high spring tides. 



~* Measurements of the iknvers are taken utter opening and before the tall 

 of the petals, after which the size increases as in other species. 



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