476 BENGAL PLANTS. [ 
lobes coriaceous, valvate. Petals 5-6, emarginate. Stamens 10 
or 12, inserted between the lobes of a fleshy disk in pairs opposite 
e petals ; anthers oblong or linear. Carpels 3, connate in an at — 
teeth surrounding its base. Seed pendulous, germinating on the 
tree ; radicle elongated, perforating the apex of the fruit. - 
ERIOPS Roxpureurana Arn.; F. B. I. ii. 486; E. D. 
2. 
Sundribuns. 
A large shrub. Beng. Goran. 
321. Kandelia W. & A. 
Small trees; branches terete ; leaves opposite, cori wie 
oblong, obtuse ; stipules interpetiolar, caducous. Flowers few, et 
i » dichotomous cymes; bracteoles connate round base 
calyx. Sepals 5-6, connate in a short tube, adnate to ovary; gd 
linear-lanceolate, valvate. Petals 5 or 6, bifid, with incised, mak 
tifid, capillary lobes. Stamens many ; filaments slender, exserted; 
anthers small, oblong, Carpels 3, connate in a 1-locular, halt — 
superior ovary, produced beyond the calyx in a fleshy rae ed ovules 
6, arising in pairs from a central column ; style slender, wih a 
base; stigma 3-lobed. Fruit 1-celled, 1-seeded, inde 
coriaceous, ovoid, with the persistent calyx-teeth surrounding 
base. Seed pendulous, germinating on the tree ; radicle elongated, 
perforating the apex of the fruit. a 
159. Kanpetta Rurxper W. & A.; F. B. I. ii. 487; E. D. 2 
Sundribuns. 
A small tree. Beng. Goria; Uriya Rasunia. 
322. Bruguiera Lamk. : 
Trees or shrubs; branches terete ; leaves opposite, coriac is 
petioled, oblong, entire ; stipules interpetiolar, caducous. Flow . 
rather large, Solitary or eymose on axillary peduncles ; braeteoles 
0. Sepals 8-14, connate in an obconic or campan plong; 
adnate to ovary; lobes lanceolate, valvate. Petals 8-14, obI0MS 
2-lobed or emarginate, convolute at base, appendiculate. eo 0 . 
16-28, in pairs opposite the involving petals ; filaments HMf0h’ 
