190 VERBENACEA. 
Ovar. stylo reclinato, subulato. 
Stigmata bifido oblongum : ferrugineo-pilosum : 1-loculare. 
Placenta centralis libera, 4-gona. Ovula4, clavata, pendula 
ex apicem placenta inter angulos apicem umbilicata, no dis- 
tinction of coats. 
Avicennia folis obovatis glabris, subtus reticulatis fl. 
spicatis inferior distant. superior conjestis, (magnis) 3- 
bracteatis, Sepalis5 5tum extima. Cor. laciniæ postica 
latiore emarginata, filamentis mediocribus, anther exsertis, 
stigma bifida exserta, fructibus amygdalus dense ferrugine 
tomentosis, radicula dense villosa. 
Although this has the leaves in shape as in A. tomentosa, 
Roxb. Fl. Ind. 3, 88, and though there are other marks of 
agreement, yet the leaves are perfectly smooth, and the 
flowers can not be said to be numerous. 
After the corolla is fallen the style becomes much more re- 
clinate. 
Frutis like an almond, but more compressed, often 
ineequilateral surrounded at the base by bractes and calyx, 
covered with a dense velvet light ferruginous down, marked 
at the apex with a scar of the style and along both the edges 
with an obscure line. 1-valved; coriaceous lined inside with 
a white delicate rice-papery cellular tissue. 
Seed without any teguments, green, filling the whole 
cavity. 
Cotyledons, conduplicate, one quite in the sinus of the 
other. 
Radicle (after germination ?) much lengthened subclavate 
densely villaris. 
AB. In limosis inundatis Malacca. 
Pl. CCCCXLVIII. 
The development of the embryo presents in Avicennià 
great anomalies. 
The ovula are nucleary. 
