376 NATURAL HISTORY OB PLANTS. 



a transverse or oblique capitate parietal placenta, anatropous, sessile 

 or stipitate.^ Fruit turbinate coriaceous, enlarged at flattened vertex, 

 l~4-locular ; seeds oo ; ^ embryo . . . ? — Glabrous trees ; ^ leaves 

 alternate, collected at top of twigs, petiolate, entire, coriaceous penni- 

 nerved, at vernation convolute; flowers^ axillary solitary or few 

 cymose pedunculate.^ — (Mascarene isles, Malacca,^) 



54? Sonneratia L. fJ — Flowers hermaphrodite, 4~8-merous; 

 receptacle subcampanulate, enclosing adnate germen and produced 

 higher bearing at margin 4-8 thick valvate 3 -angular sepals. Petals 

 0, or 4-8, small, linear or long filiform, sometimes spathulate. Stamens 

 00 , filaments slender, oo -seriate, incurved in bud, finally reflexed ; 

 anthers reniform or hippocrepiform, versatile, 2-rimose. Germen 

 adnate at depressed apex or more or less free, oo -locular ; style slender 

 simple, plicate in bud, at apex stigmatose obtuse or minutely capitate. 

 Ovules in cells oo , inserted on internal placenta, recurved, often 

 ascending, imbricate. Fruit baccate, coriaceous, increased by persis- 

 tent calyx, 00 -locular, indehiscent (?) ; cells oo -spermous. Seeds 

 more or less nestling in interior pulp, long curved ; testa thick very 

 hard ; cotyledons of exalbuminous embryo foliaceous convolute ; 

 radicle terete elongate. — Glabrous trees and shrubs f leaves opposite 

 petiolate exstipulate, oblong or subelliptical, entire coriaceous thick ; 

 nerves scarcely or not at all conspicuous ; flowers ^ axillary solitary 

 or terminal 3-nate.^^ (All trojp, shores of old world}^) 



55 ? Grias L.^^ — " Flowers 4-5-merous ; receptacle turbinate not 



1 Chalaza facing inwards. that stipules are wanting, and that least of all is 



2 " ArUlate." it Legnotidea). — Tombea Bii. et Gk. loc. cit. 



3 With a bitter tenacious bark. ' Habit of some Rhizophorce. 



4 White oftener rather large. ^ Large, white or pink. \ 



* An anomalous genus of Lythrarice (B. H.) ^^ A genus of Lijthraricce. (B, H.) 



6 BoJ. Hort. Maur. UI.—Bl.Mus. Lugd -Bat, ^^ Spec. 3, 4. Sonnek. Voi/. 16, t. 10, 11 {Pa- 

 i. 143. — Walp. Ann. ii. 193. pagate). — Rumph. Eerb. Amboin. iii. t. 73, 74 



7 iSt<;/'i?/. 38.— J. <7e;2.325.— LAMK./^/cif.i. 429; (Jfa^^/mm).— Rheed. Sort. Mai. iii. 43, t. 40 

 //^. t. 420.— BucHAN. >S'^w. J?;«,iii. 313, t. 25.— {Blatti).—WiGnT and Arx. Prodr. i. 327.— 

 DC. Prodr. iii. 231.— Exdl. Gen. n. 6342.— H. Wight, Ic. t. 340.— Miq. Fl. Ind..Bat. i. p. i. 

 Bn. Payer Fam. Nat. 3G5.— B. H. Gen. 784, n. 485 ; Suppl. 316.— Bl. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. i. 336. 

 26.— Baker, -F^. Jfawn^. 102. — AubletiaGcjE.m:'^. — Benth. Fl. Austral, iii. 301.— Walp. Rep. ii. 

 Fruct. i. 379, t. 78 (not Jacq. nor Lour, nor 170 ; Ann. iv. 691, 830. 



Rich, nor Schreb.). — Chiratia Montrouz, ilfew. ^^ gr^;,_ ^ 559 — j_ q^^^^ 251. — Lamk. Diet. iii. 



Acad. Lyon. x. 202.— Bii. et Gr. Ball. Soc. Bot. 45.— Sw. Obs. 215.— Sm. Bees Cyclop. 15.— DC. 



Fr. xi. 69; Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 5, i. 362; vi. 266. Prodr. iii. 296.— Endl. Gen. n. 6335.— B. H. 



— H. Bn. Adansonia, vii. 255 (where before the Gen. 722, n. 65. — Miers, Tran&. Linn. Soc. xxx. 



authorities previously cited, it is shown that 171, 298, t. 36 c. 

 Chiratia differs in no respect from Sonneratia, 



