LIII. EHIZOPHORACE^. 



I. MANGROYE SERIES. 

 The Mangroves are especially known by their long adventitious 



Rhizophora Mangle. 



Fig. 254. Flower (f). 



Fig. 255. Diagram. 



Fig. 256. Long. sect, of flower. 



IC \ 



Fig. 258. Fruit. Fig. 257. Dehiscent Fig. 260. Fruit, Fig. 259. Long, 



stamen. -with germinating seed. sect, of fruit. 



roots which descend into the mud, whence the name Bhizojphora ^ (fig. 

 [253-260). They have regular and hermaphrodite flowers, the concave 



1 L. Gen. n. 592 (part).— J. Gen. 213, 453.— Endl. Gen. n. 6098.— H. Bn. Fai/er Fam. Nat. 



£K. Diet. vi. 160; III. t. 396.— Dup.-Th. 360.— B. H. Gen. 678, n. I.— B-OOTL. Fl. Ind. 



}esvx. Journ. Bot. ii. 31, t. 4.— DC. Frodr. iii. ii. iZo.— Mangle Plukn. ex Adans. Fam. des 



\2 (part).— Spach, Suit, d Buffon^ iv. 332.— P^. ii. 445. 



