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as many as tlie calyx-lobes, alternate with them, and inserted below them, 

 iisually cut or jagged. Stamens as many or twice as many or more, the fila- 

 ments distinct, anthers erect. Ovary more or less inferior, or rtu'ely quite 

 superior, 2- or more-celled, with 2 or few pendulous ovules in each cell, or 

 rarely 1-celled by the obliteration of the partition. Style simple, with an entire 

 or lobed stigma. Fruit inferior or enclosed in the calyx, with 1 or few seeds, 

 with or without albumen. — Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite, simple, entire or 

 slightly toothed, coriaceous. Flowers axillary, solitary, clustered or in cymes. 

 A small Order, almost entirely tropical, and chiefly Asiatic and At'ricau, with a few 

 American species. It is divided into two distinct tribes, by some considered as independent 

 families. 1. Rhizophorece proper : including the following genus Kandelia, consists of the 

 Mangroves, ail maritime trees, the seeds without albumen, and almost always germinating 

 before falling oif, the thick radicle enlarging rapidly and projecting to a great length from 

 the summit of the capsule. 2. Lepioildea : trees or shrubs, not strictly maritime, with 

 usually smaller flowers, and the seeds albuminous, not germinating before they fall ; to this 

 tribe belongs the subjoined genus Carallia. 



Calyx-segments and petals linear. Stamens numerous 1. Kandelia. 



Calyx-segmeuts very short. Petals orbicular. Stamens twice as many as 



the petals . . \ 2. Carallia. 



1. KANDELIA, Arn. 



Calyx-segments 5 or 6, rarely 4, linear, shortly united above the ovary, 

 and surrounded at the base by a cup-shaped bract. Petals as many, narrow, 

 divided into several filiform segments, very deciduous. Stamens numerous, 

 or rarely definite ; filaments slender, anthers small. Ovaiy 1-celled (or when 

 very yoimg 3-celled ?), with 6 ovules (2 to each cell) pendidous from a central 

 axis. Style filiform, with a 3-lobed stigma. Fruit oblong, the reflexed per- 

 sistent calyx-segments surrounding it in the middle. Seed without albumen, 

 the rapidly enlarged radicle penetrating through the apex of the fruit. 



The genus only consists of the following species. 



1. K. Rheedii, Am.; Blume, Mks. Bot. i. 134; Hook. Ic. t. 362; 

 WigJit, Illustr. ^.89. A glabrous evergi'een tree, w^ith thick branches. Leaves 

 oblong, obtuse, 3 or 4 in. long, quite entire, coriaceous, on a petiole of -|- to f 

 in. long. Peduncles 1, 2, or 3 in each axil, variable in length, but shorter 

 than the leaves, each bearing a compact cyme of 3 to 5 white flowers. Calyx- 

 segments 6 or 7 lines long. Petals rather shorter, and falling off so soon after 

 the flower expands, that they may escape observation in the dried specimens. 

 Stamens from 20 to 25. 



In an estuary at Little Hongkong, and the only Mangrove on the island, Champion. It 

 extends generally along the coasts of eastern India and the Archipelago, but is not so com- 

 mon there as other Mangroves. 



2. CARALLIA, Roxb. 



Calyx-tube campanulate above the ovary, with 5 to 8 very short lobes or 

 teeth. Petals as many, clawed, orbicular, jagged or slightly toothed, inserted 

 at the top of the calyx-tube. Stamens twice as many as petals, and inserted 

 with them round the undidated margin of the thin disk. Ovary inferior, or 

 at least adnate as high as the insertion of the ovules, 4-celled or rarely 3- or 

 .5-celled, with 2 pendulous ovules in each cell. Fruit succulent, usually con- 



