RIUZOPHORACEM. 303 



lobes of disk ; anthers oblong. Gormen semi-inferior, 2-3-Iociilar ; 

 cells 2-ovulate; style at apex simple subulate. Fruit, etc., of 

 Uliho'phora ; seed germinating as in Uhizo^hora. — Trees ; opposite 

 leaves and stipules of Ehizophora ; flowers subcapitate, 2-3-clioto- 

 mously cymoso-glomerulate. (Trop. Asla^ Africa^ and Oceania}) 



3. Bruguiera LAmi.^— Flowers nearly of BMzophora, 8-14- 

 merous; petals setiferous, 2-lobed and each enfolding a pair of stamens.^ 

 Stamens 16-28; filaments finally elastically resilient from petals; 

 anthers introrse linear- oblong. Germen inferior, 2-4-locular ; style at 

 apex minutely 2-4-fid ; ovules, etc., of Bhizophora. Fruit turbinate, 

 crowned with accrescent calyx ; seed germinating as in Bhizophora, — 

 Trees ; leaves and stipules of Bhizophora] flowers* axillary solitary 

 or cymose few, nutant. (Tr op, shores of Asia, Africa, and Oceania.^) 



4. Kandelia Wight and Arn.^ — Flowers nearly of Bhizophora, 

 5-6-merous ; stamens qo ; filaments capillary ; anthers oblong. 

 Germen sub-1-locular ; ovules 6, inserted 2-nately on columnar pla- 

 centa (in 1-locular ovary), descending ; style at apex 3 -fid. Other 

 characters of Bhizophora. — Small trees ; opposite leaves and inter- 

 petiolate stipules of Bhizophora ; flowers ^ cymose pedunculate 

 axillary few. {East Indian shores,^) 



II. BARRALDEIE^. 



5. Barraldeia Dup.-Th. — Flowers hermaphrodite; receptacle very 



concave. Sepals 4-8, inserted in margin, valvate. Petals same in 



1 Spec. 1, 2. Wight, Icon. t. 240.— Miq. Fl. Nat. Hist. i. 365.— Miq. Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. i, 

 Ind.-Bat. i. p. i.590 ; Suppl. 126, 324.— Benth. 585 ; Suppl. 126, 324.— Tul. Ann. Se. Nat. ser. 

 Fl. Songk. 120; Fl. Austral, ii. 493.— Thw. 4, vi. 113.— Benth. i^/. ^Msifr«/. ii. 494.— Hart. 

 Enum. Fl. Zeyl. 120.— Tul. Ann. 8c. Nat. ser. and Sond. Fl. Cap. ii. 514. — Thw. Enum. Fl. 

 4, vi. 111.— Oltv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 408.— Walp. Zeyl. 120.— Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 409.— Walp. 

 Rep. ii. 70 : Ann. ii. 527 ; vii. 950. Rep. ii. 70 ; Ann. ii. 528 ; vii. 951. 



2 Eict. iv. 696; III. i. 397.— Exdl. Gen. n. « Prodr.i. 310.— Arn. Ann. Nat. Eist.i. 365. 

 6101.— H. Bn. Faije)- Earn. Nat. 3C0.— B. H. — Endl. Gen.n. 6100.— IL.Bn. Eayer Earn. Nat. 

 Gen. 679, n, 4.— Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. \2,1.—KaniUa 361.— B. H. Gen. 679, n. 3.— Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 

 Bl. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. i. liO. —Ealetuveria Dlp.- 237. 



Th. (ex ExnL.). -^ Petals multifid-lacerate, white, rather large. 



3 The alternipetalous stamen generally shorter ^ Spec. 1. E. Eheedii Wight and Arn. op. cit. 

 and in adult flowers only interior to petal. 311. — Wight, III. i. t. 89. — Benth. Fl. Hongk. 



•* Eather large or small, articulate. 110.— Miq. Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. i. 585.— Hook. 



* Spec. 5, 6. G.12RTN. Eriict. i. 213, t. 45, fig. 2 Icon. t. 362.— Ehizophora KandelJj. Spec. 634.— 



{Bhizophora). — JyG. Erodr. iii. 32, n. 9, 10 DC. Prodr. iii. Z2.— TsJerou Kandel Kheed. 



{Bhizophora). — Griff. Ic. iv. t. 641. — Hook. Ic. Hort. Malab. vi. t. 35. 

 397, 398.— Wight, Ic. t. 239.— Arn. Ann. 



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