JBrugta'era.] RhizophoracecB. 153 



Mangrove forests on the coast, common; Negombo; Chilaw; Kalpitiya; 

 Trincomalie. Fl. Sept. ; pet. white, sep. green. 

 Tropical seashores of the Old World. 



2. C. Rozburg-hiana, Am. in Ann. Nat. Hist. i. 363 (1838). 

 Fl. B. I] L ii. 436. Karsten, 1. c. t. 3, f. 1. 



Scarcely differs from the last in habit and foliage, but fl. in 

 a more dense capitate cyme; cal.-segm. subovate, rather 

 obtuse; pet. concave, setose-ciliate towards apex; stam. often 

 12; fruit less tapering and embryo shorter. 



In the tidal estuary of the Mahaweli River at Kottiyar, 1890 (Karsten). 



Also in the Sunderbuns, Andaman Islands, and coast of Burma. 



Prof. Karsten informs me that he found this little tree abundantly in 

 the above locality with the other species. I have seen no specimens. 

 The two appear very closely allied. 



\Kandelia Rheedci, W. and A., is given for Ceylon in Fl. B. Ind. on 

 the faith of a doubtful specimen in Herb. Kew. It is figured in Rheede, 

 Hort. Malab. vi. t. 35 and in Wight, 111. i. t. 89, and may possibly 

 occur ; but I have seen no specimens.] 



3. BRUGVIERA, Lam. 



Trees or shrubs with habit and 1. of Rhizophora; cal.-tube 



connate with ov. below and free above it for some distance, 



deeply cut into 8-14 persistent segm.; pet. 8-14, concave, 



deeply bilobed, with terminal appendages; stam. 16-28, two 



enclosed in each pet. ; ov. wholly inferior, 2-3-celled, with 2 



ovules in each cell; fruit crowned by the persistent cal.-limb; 



radicle of germinating embryo cylindrical or nearly so. — Sp. 8; 



5 in Fl. B. Ind. 



Fl. solitary ; cal.-segm. 10-14. • • . 1. B. GYMNORHIZA. 



Fl. in threes ; cal.-segm. 8 . . . 2. B. caryophylloides. 



1. B. gymnorhiza, Lam. Encycl. iv. 696 (1797). 



Fl. Zeyl. n. 181. Rhizophora conjugata, L. Sp. PI. 443. R. gymno- 

 rhiza, L., Moon Cat. 36. Thw. Enum. 120 (including R. Rheedii. Miq.). 

 C. P. 361 1, 3612. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 437. Rheede, Hort. Malab. vi. tt. 31, 32. Wight, Ic. t. 

 239. Karsten, 1. c. t. 2, f. 2. 



A tree, young branches smooth, with pale bark and 

 prominent scars of 1. and stip. ; 1. 3-J-5 in., oval, tapering to 

 base, slightly acuminate, acute, not mucronatc, glabrous, rather 

 thick, bright green, paler beneath, with the midrib very 

 prominent, petiole \ 1 in.; fl. rather large, solitary, drooping, 

 peduncle ', in., curved, from axils of upper 1.; cal. coriaceous, 

 glabrous, tube striate, segm. 10-14 (usually 1 1), \-\ in., linear, 

 very acute, erect; pet. 10-14, very deeply bifid, hairy at the 



