40 ALANGIACE^ RHIZOPHORACiE. 



W. Indies. — Guiera senegalensis. Lam. — ? Senegambia. — Poivrea 

 alternifolia DC. — B Banks of Orinoco. (' Bejuco de Guayca.') P. 

 aculeata, DC. — ^ Senegambia, P. eriopetala, DC. — ^. St. Domingo. — 

 Combretum grandijlorum, G. Don ; B. Reg. 19, t. 1631. — B v_^ Sierra 

 Leona. A most splendid species. C. comosum, G. Don; B. Reg. 14. 

 t. 1165. ^ <^ Sierra Leona. 



ORDER XXL— ALANGIACEiE, Lindl. Nat. Syst. p. 39. 



Common in S. India, whence they extend along the Malayan Peninsula 

 to Cochin-China, northward along the forest-clad base of the Himalaya, 

 (Royle.) Only the following 4 species have as yet been discovered. 

 Alangium, Lam. (DC. pr. 3, p. 203 ; — W. and A. pr. 1, p. 325.) 



1. decapetalum. Lam. {DC. I. c. ; — W. and A.l. c. ; — J. Grah. Cat. B. pi. 

 p. 72; — Wight, icon 1, t. 194. — A. hexapetalum, Roxb.fl. ind. 2, p. 

 502; not Lara. — A, tomentosum, Lam. — DC. o. c. p. 204; — Rheed. 

 4, t. 17,) ?t^^^Tl Bagh-ankra. b Coromandel, Cochin, Bombay. 

 Guzerat, Malay Peninsula, Cochin-China, Assam, Khassya Mountains, 

 &c. up to the base of the Himalaya. Fl. middle sized, whitish- 

 yellowish, fragrant, H. S. ; fr. R. S. — Wood beautiful, {Roxb.) 

 Fruit edible, somewhat astringent. 

 Stylidium, R. Br. 



1. begonifolium, R. Br. (S. chinense, Lour. — Marlea begonifolia, Roxb. 

 Cor. 3, t. 283 ;— /. ind. 2, p. 261 ;—DC. pr. 4, p. 267 ;—B. Reg. 24. 

 t. 61.) 5 Assam, China, Khassya Hills, extending northwards beyond 

 30° of N. L. Fl, middle sized, white, with large yellow anthers, 

 March and April; fr. July and August. Timber employed by the 

 natives in the construction of their houses. (Roxb.) 



2. barbatum, R. Br. 5 Khassya Hills. 



* Alangium hexapetalum, L. Wight, ill. 2, t. 96. 5. S. India, spread- 

 ing up the Western bank of the Ganges to Allahabad. Khassya 

 Mountains. 



ORDER XXII.— RHIZ0PH0RACJ2, Lindl. Nat. Syst. p. 40. 



(W. Griffith, On the family of Rhizophorese ; in Trans, med. and phys. soc. 

 Calcutta, vol, 8, p. 1 — 13. With a plate. — Arnott ; in Ann. of nat. hist. 

 1, p. 359—374, incl. and in Wight, ill. 1, p. 207—211.) 



THE MANGROVE TRIBE. 



Trees, rarely shrubs, natives of salt swamps and marshes of the tropics, 

 where they root in the mud, forming dense, most unliealthy jungles down 



