Sonnra*ia.] ONAGRACEAE. 515 



10-15-celled, many-seeded berry, supported by the persistent 

 calyx. Seeds small, curved, angular, embedded in pulp ; cotyledons 

 convolute ; radicle short, terete. 



Calyx-lobes 4 ; petals ; stigma large, umbrella-shaped ; leaves 



narrowly oblong 1. apetala. 



alyx-lobes 6 ; petals 6 ; stigma capitate ; leaves obovate 



2. caseolarls. 



1. SONNERATIA APETALA, Buch.-Ham.; F. B. I. ii. 579; W. & A. 

 327. 



E. Coast, in mangrove forests in the deltas of the Godavari, 

 Kistna and Colerooii. 



A moderate-sized evergreen tree with black smooth Jmrk 

 and . reddish-brown wood. It gives, like the true man- 

 groves (lUiizophora), upright root excrescences. Vern. Tel. 

 Kyalanki ; Tain.. Marama. 



~2. SONNERATIA CASEOLARis, Engl. S. acula, Linn, f . ; F.B.I, 

 ii. 579 ; W. & A. 327 ; Wt. Ic. t. 340. 

 W. Coast, along backwaters from S. Canara southwards. 

 A small evergreen tree with large showy pink-petalled 

 flowers and large depressed-globose fruit. Wood grey, 

 soft, even-grained. It also gives root-excrescences with 

 even softer wood. Vern. Mai. Blatti, Thirala. 



Family LXYIII. ONAGRACEAE. 



Herbs, rarely undershrubs, sometimes aquatic. Leaves opposite 

 or alternate, entire or toothed ; in Trapa the submerged leaves 

 pinnatipartite ; stipules 0. Flowers hermaphrodite, axillary and 

 solitary or in terminal and axillary spikes or racemes, regular or 

 sometimes irregular. Calyx-tube wholly adnate to the ovary 

 (half-adnate in Trapa) ; lobes 2-5, valvate. Petals epigynous, 

 alternate with the calyx-lobes, rarely 0. Stamens as many as 

 or twice as many as the petals and inserted with them. Ovary 

 inferior (half -inferior in Trapa), 1-6- , usually 4-celled, ovules 1 or 

 many in each cell, pendulous or half-ascending, placentas axile ; 

 style subulate ; stigma capitate or 2-4-lobed. Fruit various, 

 dehiscent or indehiscent, capsular or baccate, 1- or many-celled 

 and -seeded. Seeds usually small ; albumen or a very thin 

 layer. 



