Kandelia.} RHIZOPHORACEAE. 457- 



Flowers small, in short rather dense axillary cymes ; bracteoles 

 connate under the calyx. Calyx 5-6-lobed, the tube adnate to 

 the ovary. Petals 5-6, inserted at the base of a 10-12-lobed fleshy 

 disk ; emarginate, the apex more or less ciliate. Stamens 10-12, 

 inserted between the lobes of the disk ; filaments slender ; anthers 

 oblong. Ovary semi-inferior, 3-celled, 2 pendulous ovules in each 

 cell; style short; stigma simple. Fruit coriaceous, 1-celled, 

 1 -seeded, with persistent reflexed calyx-lobes. Seed as in Rhizo- 

 phora, the radicle grooved and angular. 



Petals tipped with 3-4 capitate bristles 1 . Candolleana. 



Petals tipped with many ciliae 2. Roxburghiana. 



1. CERIOPS CANDOLLEANA, Arn. ; F. B. I. ii. 436 ; Wt. Ic. t. 240. 



Tidal forests of the W. Coast; Quiloii in Travancore (Wight). 

 A small evergreen tree with many buttresses at base and 

 root excrescences as in Rhizophora. Leaves obovate, usually 

 emarginate. Bark dark red, giving a good tanning material ; 

 wood orange-red, hard, an excellent fuel. Yern. Mai. An 

 kandal. 



2. CERIOPS ROXBURGHIANA, Arn.; F. B. I. ii. 436. 



Tidal forests of the E. Coast, Godavari and Kistna Deltas 



and elsewhere. 



A small evergreen tree similar to the preceding, the leaves 



obovate. Yern. Hind. Goran; Tel. Gatharu; Tarn. Cbiru 



kandal. 



3. Kandelia, W. & A. 



A small tree with aerial roots from the stem and branches. 

 Leaves opposite, coriaceous, oblong, obtuse, entire. Flowers few, 

 large, in axillary pedunculate dichotomously branched cymes, 

 white; bracteoles connate round the base of the calyx. Calyx 

 5-6-lobed ; tube short, adnate to the ovary ; lobes linear, valvate. 

 Petals 5-6, thin", bifid, the lobes multifid. Stamens many; 

 filaments capillary ; anthers small, oblong. Ovary semi-inferior, 

 1-celled; ovules 6, affixed in pairs to a central column; style 

 slender ; stigma 3-lobed. Fruit 1-celled, 1-seeded, girt with the 

 persistent reflexed calyx-lobes. Seed as in Eliizophora. 



KANDELIA RHEEDII, W. & A. 311 ; F. B. I. ii. 437 ; Wt. 111. t. 89. 

 Tidal forests of the W. Coast ; less common on E. Coast. 



