RIIIZOPIIORACEM. 291 



RMzopliora. It has flowers constructed like those of Ceriops, 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 1 (fig. 2G3). 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 RMzopliora, 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 Geriops. 



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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 with lono' and slender filaments and small introrse anthers. 



II. BARRALDEIA SERIES. 



In the hermaphrodite and regular flowers of Barraldeia' 2 (fig. 

 204-269), 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 andrœcium. 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 



1 But this is only in appearance, these two Mttlab.it. 13 (not of others). — Cara/lia ~Roxu. PI. 

 stamens belonging to two different verticils and Command, iii. (1819) 8, t. 211 ; Fl. Ind. Or. ii. 

 heing rarely nearly equal. Oftener one is 481. — Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 439. — R. Br. 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. Jburn. Linn. Soe. iii. G7, 74. — H. Bn. 

 in certain Rhizophora (see p. 289, note 1) and Adansonia, iii. 24, 36 ; Payer Fam. Xut. 361. — 

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



2 Ddp.-Th. Gen. Nov. Madag. (1806) 24. — DC. 1130.— Baraultia Steud. Nom. 101. — Petaloma 

 Prodr. i. 732. — Diatoma Louk. Fl. Cochinch. (ed. DC. Prodr. iii. 294. — Catalium Ham. mss. (ex 

 1790) 295 (fiecalior.). — DemidoJîaDzyssT. Hort. Endl.). 



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