408 liv. rhizophorace2E (oliver). [Rhizophora. 



mucro or narrow apiculus, broadly cuneate or slightly rounded at base, 

 scarcely or not at all narrowed into the petiole, midrib very prominent 

 beneath, attenuate upwards, dull greenish yellow beneath when fresh ; 

 usually 3-4 J in. long, If -2f in. broad ; petiole f-1^ in. Peduncles 

 axillary, compressed, often recurved, 1 in. more or less, few-flowered. 

 Flowers nearly as in R. racemosa, probably rather larger and stouter. 

 Style conical below. Fruit elongate-ovoid. 



Mozamb. Distr. Luabo mouth of Zambesi, Dr. Kirk! From Quirimba to 

 Inhambane, 11° to 24° S. lat., Dr. Peters. 



Also South of the Tropic, iu Mascarene Islands, India and eastward to Australia and 

 Polynesia. 



Description partly from a drawing by Dr. Kirk, from fresh specimens. A. Richard 

 (Fl. Abyss, i. 271V cites Rhizophora Candelaria, DC, as occurring by the Red Sea, 

 near Massouah. I have not seen a specimen. 



2. R. Mangle, Linn.; DC. Prod. iii. 32. Leaves elliptical, obtuse, 

 curvature in circumscription nearly equal from about the middle of 

 the blade to each extremity, somewhat narrowed into the petiole at the 

 base, 3-4 in. long, 1 J-2 in. broad more or less ; petiole J-f in. Pe- 

 duncles axillary, J-1J in., ascending or decurved, often compressed, 

 few-flowered ; pedicels about 3, \— f in. long. Flowers and fruit nearly 

 as in R. mucronata. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone, Afzelius ! Senegambia, Brunner! 

 Widely spread in Tropical America. Our specimeus are unsatisfactory, and I do not 

 feel great confidence in this identification. 



3. R. racemosa, G. F. W. Meyer ; DC. Prod. iii. 32. A small tree. 

 Leaves oblanceolate-elliptical or oval, equally narrowed from the middle 

 or a little above the middle to each end or more gradually to the base, 

 narrowing into the petiole, apex broadly pointed, becoming shortly 

 revolute on drying ; lamina 3J-6 in. long, 1^-2^ in. broad ; petiole 

 i-f in. Flowers in pedunculate divaricate shortly -jointed many- 

 flowered cymes from the lower a*xils of the terminal leaf-tufts. Pe- 

 duncles somewhat or slightly compressed, often decurved, 1-2 in. long. 

 Pedicels and joints of cyme \ in. more or less, with small confluent 

 bracteoles at the articulations. Calyx-lobes about 5 lines long. Petals 

 narrow-oval with lax marginal hairs. Style rather slender, slightly 

 thickened below. Fruit 1J in. long, oblong-ovoid, terete'. 



Upper Guinea. Sierra Leone and Grand Bassa, E. Vogel! Brass, Barter! 



Also in Tropical America, if this identification be correct. The " Red Mangrove" of 

 the Brass traders {Barter). Perhaps to this species belongs a fragmentary specimen 

 from the Congo (Smith), in the Kew herbarium ; the plant no doubt referred to by R. 

 Brown in Tuckey, App. 437. 



2. CERIOPS, Am.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, i. 679. 



Flowers very coriaceous. Calyx-tube short, sheathed by confluent 

 bracteoles, limb 5-6-partite, segments oblong-lanceolate, coriaceous, 

 valvate. Petals 5-6, truncate or emarginate with 3 or more apical 

 glands or clavate setae, membranous with a median nervure. Stamens 

 10 or 12, inserted in the lobed disk ; filaments slender, much exceeding 



