Bruguiera] 



XLIX. RHIZOPHORACE.E 



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1. B. gymnorhiza, Lam.— Syn. B. Rheedii, Wight Tc. t. 239 : Bedd. Man. 

 t. xiv. Vern. Kankra, Sundrib. 



A tree, attaining 80 ft., 1. thickly coriaceous, shining, elliptic-lanceolate, not 

 mucronate, pale beneath, blade 4-7, petiole 1-lj in. long. Fl. solitary, axillary, 

 deflexed, pedicel .', in. long. Calyx-lobes 10-14, linear, very acute, erect, A-f in. 

 long, petals deeply bifid, glabrous except at the hairy base, ovary 3-celled, 

 style long. Fr. crowned by the slightly enlarged calyx-segments, which are 

 as long as fruit. 



Tidal marshes of the Western Peninsula. Bengal, the Andaman* and Burma. Fl. 

 Apr.-Oct. — Bark used in tanning. Africa to Australia and the islands of the Pacific. 

 2. B. eriopetala, Wight & Am. ; Wight Ic. t. 239 B. Malabar and Travancore, Malay 

 Peninsula and Archipelago. Cocliinchina. Calyx-lobes 10, 1 in. long, exceeding the 

 ribbed fr. Petals densely hirsute along the edges, from base to apex with silvery 

 hairs. 



B. Fl. small, peduncles 3- or more-fid. 



3. B. caryophylloides, Blume (including B. malaharica, Arnott) Quilon. Ceylon. 

 Tenasserim. Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. Leaves thinly coriaceous. Cymes 

 axillary, pedunculate, 2-3-lid., calyx-lobes £ in. long, reflexed in fr. and about half its 

 length, petals with scanty hairs outside. 1. B. parvtflora, W. & A. Tidal forests of the 

 Andamans and Tenasserim. Mala3>- Peninsula and Archipelago. Cymes axillary, erect, 

 pedunculate, 2-5-fld., calyx-tube cylindric, J, teeth T ' a in. long. Ovary 3-celled, fruit 

 cylindric, ribbed, 1 in., radicle 4-5 in. long before falling. 



5. CARALLIA, Roxb. : Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. 439. 



Trees and shrubs, nbt litoral. Fl. small, sessile, in short trichot.omous 

 axillary cymes. Calyx produced into a short tube beyond the ovary, teeth 5-8, 

 petals inserted with the stamens on the edge of a crenulated disk lining the 

 calyx-tube, ungtiiculate, blade deeply serrate and lobed. Ovary inferior, 

 usually I -relied, uviilcs '2 iii carli cell. Fruit small, globose, coriaceous, seed I. 

 testa fibrous, embryo curved in copious albumen. Species 7. from Madagascar 

 to Australia. 



1. C. lucida, 



Roxb. Cor. PL t. 



'.Ml : Kurz F. Fl. 



i. 151 ; Sing in 



Journ. As. Soc. 



Beng. 66. 318. 



Syn. ( '. inli i/< /• 



riiim. 1 >< '. : Fl. 



Brit. End. ii. 139; 



Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 



I. in."..: C. >■<!/- 



In ii i r ,l, \Y ight 



III. t. 90. Vein. 

 Shengali, Panasi, 



Mar. : Amlii iiiii- 

 v'hi. Kau. ; Knfiil 



//,TVI.: Varanga, 

 Mai. : Maniawga, 

 I io wer, .1 wga . 

 Upper Burma. 

 A large tree, 



trunk erect, w I 



reddish brown, 

 medull. rays \cr\ 

 broa d. I tea ves 

 i hackly coriai e 

 x 



Kic 182. Carallia lucida, Roxl 



