Wightiane. N. O. Rhizophoreex. 
TAB. CCCLXII. 
Kanveia R#EEDEI. 
Gen. Cuan. Kandelia, Wight et Arn.— Calyx 5-fidus ; laciniz 
tubo 3—4-plo longiores, lineares, patentes. Petala 5, mem- 
branacea, glabra, basi lineari subcanaliculata, ultra medium 
bifida, laciniis in fila plurima capillaria longa ineequaliter 
fissis. Stamina petalorum numero 6—8-pla; filamenta subu- 
lato-capillaria, calycis lacinias fere equantia: anthere oblon- 
§®, parvee, obtuse, dorso paullo supra basin affixe. Ovarium 
adherens, 1-loculare, 6-ovulatum. Stylus filiformis stamina 
subsuperans. Stigma 3-dentatum. Fructus oblongus, basi 
laciniis calycinis patentibus coronatus, tubo multo longior.— 
Arbor parva. Folia anguste elliptico-oblonga, obtusa. Pedun- 
culi petiolo longiores, 2—3-chotomi, 4—9-flori. Flores majus- 
culi nunc rarius 6-meri: alabastra prismatica, Calyx brac- 
tea cupulata suffultus. Embryonis germinantis tigellus clavato- 
subulatus, acutissimus.— ARN. 
Kandelia Rheedei. Wight et Arnott, Prodr. Fl. Penins. Ind. 
Or. v. 1. p. 311; Wight Cat. n. 1042 ; Arnott in Ann. of Nat. 
History, v. 1. p. 365; Griffith on Rhizophora, p. 9. 
Rhizophora Candel. Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 634; De Cand. Prodr. 3.p. 
32; Spreng. Syst. Veg. 2. p. 235.; Wall. Cat, n. 4876. Rheed. 
Hort. Mal. v. 6. t. 35. 
Malabar and Bengal. : 
Mr William Griffith of the Madras Medical service, in his 
Memoir on Rhizophorea, approves of the genus constituted by 
Drs Wight and Arnott, but observes that the character of the 
ovary as given by them is at variance with the usual structure 
and with his own observations made on living plants. Dr Arnott, 
however, about the same time repeated his analysis and found 
nO appearance of dissepiments. Perhaps they are extremely 
fugacious and disappear by the drying of the specimen. 
Some apology is necessary for figuring this plant without any 
dissections ; ier the rating wer tis hastily, and without my 
knowledge, sent to the printers and transferred to the stone; 
and in this kind of art it is well known that additions cannot be 
‘0 easily made, after the proofs are taken off, as in copperplate 
engraving, 
