Ceriops.] liv. rhizop Horaces (oliver) 409 



the rather small ovate-oblong- or oblong 2-celled longitudinally dehis- 

 cing- anther. Ovary J-inferior, " 3-celled " or with the dissepiments 

 partial or reduced to slender cords ; ovules 2 in each cell ; style undi- 

 vided, thickened at base. Fruit and g-ermination as in Ehizopfurra ; the 

 protruded radicle usually strongly sulcate towards the apex, at least 

 when dry. — Trees or larg-e bushes, wholly glabrous. Leaves opposite, 

 coriaceous, entire, petiolate. Stipules interpetiolar, caducous. Pe- 

 duncles axillary, shortly or obsoletely 3-2-chotomous at apex ; flowers 

 smaller than in llhizophora, subcapitate. 

 A small genus, widely spread along muddy intertropical shores in the Old World. 



1. C. Candolliana, Arn, in Ann. Nat. Hist. i. (1838), 364. Bush 

 or small tree. Branches smooth, terete, or extremities slightly com- 

 pressed. Leaves obovate-elliptical or elliptical, apex rounded often 

 slightly emarg'inate, base narrowed into the petiole, midrib rather pro- 

 minent beneath, venation obscure; 1J-3|- in. long, f- 2 in. broad; 

 petiole J— 1J in. Peduncles usually considerably under 1 in., bracteo- 

 late and very shortly or obsoletely 2-3-forked at apex. Flowers subsessile 

 or pedicels very short. Petals 5, oblong truncate with 3 apical clavate 

 setae, base very shortly abruptly narrowed, slightly coherent for a 

 short space by the margin a little below the middle. Stamens 10, 

 alternately shorter. — C. mossamlricemis, Klotzsch in Peters' Mossamb. 

 Bot. 71. (See Arnott's memoir for further synonymy.) 



lttozamb. Distr. Mouth of Zambesi, Dr. Kirk ! From Querimba to Mozambique, 

 Dr. Peters. 



Tbrough some blunder, Dr. Klotzsch (I.e.) describes the style as growing out to 9 in. 

 in length with the maturing of the fruit, mistaking for it the protruded radicle. 



Occurs in India and eastward to Australia. 



3. BRUGUIERA, Lam. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, i. G79. 



Flowers coriaceous. Calyx ebracteolate ; tube obconical, produced 

 above the inferior ovary, limb 8-14-partite, segments linear or subu- 

 late valvate. Petals as many as calyx-segments, inserted in mouth of 

 calyx-tube, bifid, with a median and lateral apical seta, margins con- 

 duplicate below. Stamens twice as many as petals in pairs opposite to 

 and embraced by them ; filaments filiform ; anthers linear, 2-celled, 

 mucronate. Ovary inferior, 2-3-4-celled; style filiform, with as 

 many minute stigmatic teeth as cells in ovary ; ovules geminate. Fruit 

 turbinate, very coriaceous, crowned by the persistent free portion of 

 the calyx-tube; 1-celled, 1-seeded. Cotyledons minute (bipartite in 

 following species, Dr. Kirk) ; radicle protruded from the pericarp, 

 elongate, clavate, ultimately rooting. — Trees, wholly glabrous. Leaves 

 opposite, petiolate, elliptical, entire, coriaceous. Stipules interpetiolar, 

 caducous. Peduncles axillary, usually decurved, 1— go -flowered. 



A small genus of muddy intertropical shores in the Old World. 



1. B. cylindrica, Blum. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. i. 137. (var.) Tree of con- 

 siderable size. Leaves rather narrowly elliptical, acute or subacute or 



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