AVICENNIA. 187 
Folia lanceolata acuminata subintigra, coriacea subtus 
albida, but without tomentum vix reticulata. 
Spice axillares et terminales, ramose  ferrugineo-velu- 
tine. 
Flores parvi, several times smaller than in the other, oppo- 
siti inferiores distantiusculi superiores, conjesti, 3-bracteati. 
Calyx 5-partitus leciniis oblongis. 
Cor. subrotata, 4-partita extus velutina. Æstivatione fere 
valvata, thickened at the faux almost into an annulus. 
Stam. fauci inserta. Filam. breve incurva. Anth. bilocular. 
introrse; cells as it were folded together, mucronulate. 
Ovarium oblongum pubescens. Stylus brevissimis robutus. 
Stigma bifida vix ultra faucem exsertum. 
Placenta ete ut in altero sed brevior, ovula viewed as 
opaque bodies, present white points. 
Fruit with a surfacelike the under one of the leaves, 
transversely wrinkled, lanceolate, compressed, lengthened iuto 
alongish point at the apex, edges slightly furrowed, at the 
base of the calyx, but this is not forced to spread out as in 
the other, bivalvular. 
Placenta at the base of the seed on one side. 
i Seed conform, without integuments, inner cotyledon pro- 
Jecting beyond the apex of the outer, both cotyledons are 
deeply bilobed, at the base. 
Radicle long, inferor, just below the conical apex with a 
thick brush of hairs. 
Has. In limosis littoral Malacca. 
This is the species to which Jack alludes sub Pyrrhantho, 
Mal. Misc, 2-p. 58. 
: vicennia foliis lanceolatis acumianatis glabris subtus 
albidis, floribus (parvis) 4-partitis fauce subannulata. An- 
theris Subinclusis fauci insertis. Stylo brevissimo, stigmata 
Subinelus, Fructus apice attenuatus, rugosus. Radicula, 
infra apicem villoso-barbat. 
Villi radicis septuli, 
Avicennia. 
