• 876 NATURAL HISTORY OB PLANTS. 



a transverse or oblique capitate parietal placenta, anatropous, sessile 

 or stipitate. 1 Fruit turbinate coriaceous, enlarged at flattened vertex, 

 1-4-locular ; seeds oo ; 2 embryo ... ? — Glabrous trees ; 3 leaves 

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

 nerved, at vernation convolute ; flowers 4 axillary solitary or few 

 cymose pedunculate. 6 — (Mascarene isles, Malacca. 6 ) 



54 ? Sonneratia L. f. 7 — Flowers hermaphrodite, 4-S-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 

 oo , 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, oo -locular, indéhiscent (?) ; 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 ; 8 leaves opposite 

 petiolate exstipulate, oblong or subelliptical, entire coriaceous thick ; 

 nerves scarcely or not at all conspicuous ; flowers 9 axillary solitary 

 or terminal 3-nate. 10 (All trop, shores of old world. 11 ) 



55 ? Grias L. 13 — " Flowers 4-5-merous ; receptacle turbinate not 



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



2 " Arillate." it Legnotidea). — Tombea Bk. et Gr. loc. cit. 



3 With a bitter tenacious bark. 8 Habit of some Rliizophorœ. 

 * White oftener rather large. 9 Large, white or pink. , 



6 An anomalous genus of Lythrarim (B. H.) 10 A genus of Lt/tkrariece. (B. H.) 



6 Boj. Sort. Mam: UI.—Bl.Mus. Litgd -But. » Spec. 3, 4. Sonner. Voy. 16, t. 10, 11 (Pa- 



i. 143. — Walp. Ann. ii. 193. pagate). — Rdmph. Herb. Amboin. iii. t. 73, "4 



"' Suppl. 38. — J. Gen.325.— Lamk. I>ict. i. 429; (Mangium).— Ehbed. Hurt. Mai. iii. 43, t. 40 



III. t. 420.— Buchan. Sym. Aim, in. 313, t. 25.— {Blatti).— Wight and Akn. Prodi: i. 327.— 



DC. Prodr. iii. 231.— Endl. Gen. n. 6342.— H. Wight, le. t. 340.— Mia. PI. Ind..ISat. i. p. i. 



Bn. Payer Tarn. Nat. 365.— B. H. Gen. 784, n. 486 ; Suppl. 316.— Bl. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. i. 336. 



26. — Baker, PI. Maurit. 102. — AubletiaQtMRTX. — Benth. PL Austral, iii. 301. — Walp. Rep. ii. 



Pruct. i. 379, t. 78 (not Jacq. nor Lour, nor 170; A.m. iv. 691, 830. 



KiCH.nor Schreb.). — Chiratia Montrouz. jl/e'»i. 1! Gen. n. 659. — J. Gen. 257. — Lamk. Diet. iii. 



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



Pt: xi. 69; Ann. Sc. Nat. sér. 5, i. 362; ri. 266. Prodr. iii. 296.— Endl. Gen. n. 6335.— B. H. 



— -H. Bn. Adansonia, vii. 255 (where before the Goi. 722, n. 65. — Miers, Trans. Linn. iSoc. xxx. 



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

 Chiratia differs in no respect from Sonneratia, 



