LUT. RHIZOPH0RACE,E. 



I. MANGROVE SERIES. 

 The Mangroves are especially known by their long adventitious 



Fig. 254. Flower (J). 



Rhizophora Mangle. 



"?* 



Fig. 255. Diagram. 



Fig. 256. Long. sect, of flower. 



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



stamen. with germinating seed. 



Fig. 259. Long, 

 sect, of fruit. 



roots which descend into the mud, whence the name Rhizophora ' (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. Payer Fam. Nat. 



Lamk. Diet. vi. 160; III. t. 396.— Dup.-Tu. 360.— B. H. Gen. 678, n. 1.— Hook. Fl. Lid. 



Desvx. Jour». Bot. ii. 31, t. 4. — DC. Prodi: iii. ii. 435. — Mangle Plukn. ex Adans. Fam. des 



32 (part).— Spach, Suit, à Buffo», iv. 332.— PI. ii. 415. 



