1 54 Rhizophoracece. \Carailia. 



base, with 2 bristles at the top of each lobe and 1 in the 

 notch, stam. 20-28 (usually 22) ; ov. quite inferior, 3-celled, 

 style long ; fruit about 1 in., obconical, crowned by the some- 

 what enlarged cal.-segm., smooth, scarlet ; embryo attaining 

 9 in. before falling, radicle stout, fusiform, blunt, very slightly 

 angled. 



Mangrove forests; common all round the coast. Fl. December, Jan.; 

 cal. orange-yellow. 



Tropical shores throughout the Old World. 



Heart-wood red, very hard and strong, but of small size. 



There is no specimen in Hermann's Herb., but his drawing is unmis- 

 takably this species, and it is the whole foundation for] Linnaeus's Rhizo- 

 fihora conjugata, which name has been since always applied to another 

 plant, R. Candelaria, D C, to which this bears a strong resemblance in foliage. 



An excellent figure of the curious interlacement of the aerial roots of 

 this species is given by Karsten (1. c. t. 10, f. 121). 



2. S. caryophylloides, Bl. Enum. Plant. Jav. i. 93 (1830). 

 Kanilia caryophylloides, Bl., Thw. Enum. 120. C. P. 1965. 

 Fl. B. Ind. ii. 438. Rheede, Hort. Malab. vi. t. 33. 



A bush or small tree branched from the base; 1. 3-4 in., 

 readily disarticulating, lanceolate-oval, tapering below, shortly 

 acuminate, subacute, glabrous, rather thin, midrib very pro- 

 minent beneath, petiole f-i in. ; fl. small, on very short ped., 

 three together at end of slender peduncle about f in. long 

 from axils of upper 1. ; cal. glabrous, segm. usually 8, linear, 

 subacute; pet. 8, erect, concave, hairy outside, deeply bifid, 

 with several long bristly hairs at end of each lobe; stam. 16;' 

 ov. 2-celled ; fruit small, \ in., oblong-ovoid, smooth, capped 

 with reflexed cal.-segm. about half its length; embryo 

 attaining 6 in. before falling, slender, cylindrical. 



Mangrove forests ; rare. Trincomalie (Gardner) ; Kalpitiya. Fl. 

 July ; white. 



Also in S. India and Malaya. 



4. CAR&LLSA^ Roxb. 



Trees, 1. opp. with large interpetiolar stip., fl. in axillary 

 cymes ; cal.-tube campanulate, connate with ov., segm. 4-8 ; 

 pet. 4-8, cut or fimbriate; stam. 8-16, inserted (with pet.) 

 outside a prominent annular crenulated disk ; ov. inferior, 

 4-celled, with 2 ovules in each cell, stigma 4-cleft ; fruit fleshy, 

 indehiscent, i-seeded; seed globose-reniform, with a cylindrical, 

 curved, green embryo in axis of copious endosperm. — Sp. 7; 

 3 in Fl. B. Ind. 



* Carallia, from the Telugu name, Karalli. 



