458 FLORA OF MADRAS. [Kandelia. 



A small tree with pretty flowers, the pendulous radicle of the 

 seed very slender, cylindric. Bark reddish-brown ; wood soft, 

 reddish-brown, used only for firewood. Yern. Tel. Thuvar 

 kandan. 



4. Bruguiera, Lam. 



Trees or shrubs with aerial roots from the stem and branches. 

 Leaves opposite, coriaceous, entire. Flowers solitary or cymose 

 on axillary peduncles ; bracteoles 0. Calyx-tube obconic or 

 campanulate, coriaceous, adnate to the ovary ; lobes 8-14, linear- 

 lanceolate, valvate. Petals 8-14, oblong, 2-lobed or emarginate, 

 involute, with a bristle in the sinus and others, usually 2-4, at 

 the tip of each lobe. Stamens twice the number of the petals, 

 in pairs within the petals ; filaments filiform ; anthers linear, 

 mucronate. Ovary inferior, 2-4-celled, cells 2-ovuled ; style 

 filiform ; stigma 2-4-lobed. Fruit 1 -celled, 1-seeded, indehiscent, 

 coriaceous, crowned with the calyx-lobes. Seed as in Rhizophora. 



Flowers large, solitary, calyx -lobes erect in fruit ; radicle grooved : 

 Petals glabrous except at the base; leaves elliptic, acute, up to 



6 in. long by 2*5 in. broad 1. conjugata. 



Petals densely hirsute on the margins ; leaves elliptic-oblong, 

 acute or acuminate, up to 5 in. long by 2 in. broad 2. eriopetala. 



Flowers small, in axillary cymes; calyx-lobes recurved in fruit; 



petals short, obtuse, slightly hairy ; leaves elliptic-lanceolate, acute, 



up to 4 in. long, T5 in. broad; radicle almost terete 3. cylindrica. 



1. BRTJGTJIERA CONJUGATA, Merr. in Philipp. Journ. Sc. ix. 

 118. B. gymnorhiza, Lam.; F. B. I. ii. 437; W. & A. 311; 

 B. Rheedii, BL; Wt. Ic. t. 293A. 



Tidal forests of both coasts. 



A rather large evergreen tree with short stout grooved 

 rugose radicle ; root excrescences frequent. Wood red, 

 extremely hard, used for building and fuel. Yern. Hind. 

 Kankra ; Tel. Thuddu ponna. 



2. BRTJGUIERA ERIOPETALA, W. & A. ; F. B. I. ii. 438 ; Wt. Ic. 

 t. 239s. 



Tidal forests of Travancore on W. Coast. 



A small tree, similar to the preceding but scarce. 



