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Rhizophora and Bruguiera decandra the cotyledons are 
fleshy and capped by the original integument of the 
ovula; eight species of this genus are found on the 
Tenasserim coast only. Rhizophora and Bruguiera are 
natives of the shores of the tropics. Carallia is an 
inland marshy genus. 
The peculiarity of the anthers was first hinted at by 
Jacquin and subsequently remarked upon by Mr. 
Brown, all others seem to have neglected it. 
Melastomacee..—Although Mr. Brown in the ap- 
pendix to Captain Tuckey's Voyage, first pointed out 
the peculiar situation of the anthers during estiva- 
tion, I may remark that it was not overlooked by 
Dr. Roxburgh, see his account of Osbeckia tetandria 
Flora India, vol. 2, p. 224. The manuscript of which 
is of a prior date to that of the Appendix. 
In India this family is not limited to the tropics, 
Sarcopyramis of which at least 3 species exist is cer- 
tainly extra tropical, so are some species of Sonerila, 
Melastoma malabathrica is found as far as 28 N. and 
most probably further. 
Memecylee.—One species of Moser rion. M. pellucido 
punctatum, has as its name denotes pellucid dots. 
Mr. Brown's statement in Tuckey's Voyage, that this 
Order does not differ sufficiently from Mestoma is 
borne out by the existence of a Burmese genus. Ap- 
. terixis trinervis M. in which the leaves are ribbed, and 
the fruit entirely melastomaceous although of a very 
r structure, while the flowers exactly resemble 
those of Memecylon, with the exception of course of 
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