Ceriops.] RHIZOPHORE. ATS 
{Calyx-segments and petals 8-14; calyx without bracteoles; petals 
2-fid; stamens 16-28; -— 2-4-celled [p. 474] ......+0+-+ Bruguiera. 
"Inland trees; seeds albuminous; embryo not germinating till fruit falls; 
calyx-tube minutely adapt [p. 474] wccoseessbnabbansobeourmentiios Carallia. 
319, Rhizophora Linn. 
Littoral trees; branches. marked by leaf-scars ; leaves opposite, 
coriaceous, glabrous, mucronate; stipules large, interpetiolar, 
caducous. Flowers rather large, in axillary, 2-3-chotomously 
divided, few-flowered cymes; bracteoles connate round base of 
yx. Sepals 4, connate in a short tube, adnate to ovary; lobes 
coriaceous, valvate. Petals 4, entire, inserted on a fleshy disk. 
Stamens 8, inserted with the petals; filaments short; anthers 
linear. Carpels 2, connate in a half-superior ovary, projecting 
beyond the calyx as a fleshy cone; chambers 2- ovuled; stigma 
2-fid. Fruit 1-celled, 1-seeded, indehiscent, coriaceous, ovoid or 
obeonic, with the reflexed, persistent calyx-teeth surrounding i 
Seed pendulous, germinating on the tree; radicle elongated, 
Perforating the apex of the fruit 
Leaves elliptic ; cymes longer than the petioles, from axils of present 
any usually 3-flowered ; flowers pedicelled ; petals rad lanate in 
ysis ee csenieeeeel aucronata. 
on oblong to oblong-lanceolate; cymes shorter than iid — 
m axils of fallen leaves, usually 2-flowered ; flowers sessile ; pe 
en rece, REN FE te a ee an. 
756. RuizopHora MUCRONATA eee F. B. I, ii. 485; E. D. 
- Mangle F. I. ii 
Boniidbana: coasts of pareets anid Chittagon. 
A small evergreen tree. Beng. Knamo, reat Uriya 
Ai. 
757. Rurzopnora consueata Linn.; F, B. L ii. 436. 
Sundribuns. 
_ Asmall tree.. Beng. Khamo, bhora. 
320. Ceriops Arn. 
Shrubs; branches thick; leaves aves ovate or obovate ; 
nig interpetiolar, caducous. Flowers in condensed, 2-8- 
us, axillary cymes; bracteoles appear round base of 
Sepals 5 or 6, senate in a short tube, adnate to ovary; 
