RHIZOPHORACEM. 291 



EMzopliora, It has flowers constructed like those of Geriops, but 

 much larger, with from eight to fifteen narrow and pointed sepals, the 

 same number of oblong petals, much sloped at the summit and near 

 the base internally replicate upon themselves in such a manner as 

 closely to envelope a pair of stamens with elongate anthers, appa- 

 rently superposed to each of them^ (fig. 263). The inferior ovary, 

 adnate to the bottom of the receptacle, has two, three, or four cells, 

 more or less complete, with two descending ovules in each. The 

 fruit is like that of Bhizophora^ as which Bruguiera also has the 

 same organs of vegetation, and the flowers are axillary, solitary or in 

 cymes. They inhabit the same maritime shores as Ceriops, 



In Kandelia, which grows on the coasts of eastern India, the organs 

 of vegetation, the fruit, the mode of germination, &c., are all those 

 of Bhizophora ; but the flowers, grouped in small numbers (in cyme) 

 at the summit of a common peduncle, are of 5 or 6 parts, with 

 petals finely and deeply laciniate at the margin, and an inferior ovary 

 of which the three biovulate cells communicate to a greater or less 

 extent ; the androecium is formed of an indefinite number of stamens 

 with long and slender filaments and small introrse anthers. 



II. BARRALDEIA SERIES. 



In the hermaphrodite and regular flowers of Barraldeia^ (fig. 

 264-269), the cavity of the receptacle contains the inferior ovary, 

 whilst its margins, lined with an epigynous disk, forming a double 

 or triple annular cushion, bear the perianth and androecium. The 

 former is represented by a valvate calyx of four or five triangular 

 sepals and a corolla of the same number of petals, entire, bilobed, 

 crenelate or laciniate at the margins and finally induplicate. The 



^ But tkis is only in appearance, these two ^a^aS.iv. 13 (not of others). — Carallia'RoxB. PI. 



stamens belonging to two different verticils and Coromand. iii. (1819) S, t. 211 ; Fl. Ind. Or. ii. 



being rarely nearly equal. Oftener one is 481. — Hooit. Fl. Ind. ii. 439. — R. Be. Congo, 



smaller than the other which primarily corre- 437. — DC. Prodr. iii. 33.— Endl. Gen. n. 6102. 



sponded to a sepal but has become displaced as — Benth. Journ. Linn. Sac. iii. 67, 74. — H. Bn. 



in certain Rhizophora (see p. 289, note 1) and Adansonia, iii. 24, 36 ; Pai/er Fam. Nat. 361. — 



especially in Bruguiera. B. H. Gen. 680, n. 5. — Symmetria Bl. Bijdr. 



^Dvv.-'TT3..Gen.Nov.Madag.{\%0&)2i. — DC. 1130. — Baraullia Steud. Nom. 101. — Petaloma 



Prodr. i. lZ2.—Diatoma Lour. Fl. Cochinch. (ed. DC. Prodr. iii. 29 i.—Cata Hum Ham. rass. (ex 



) 295 (nee alior.). — Pemidofia Denxst. Hort. Endl.) . 





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