Sonneratia] LIII. LYTHRACE.E 341 



Ceylon, Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. This ami other species of Soiwcrotiit. as 

 well as a few other Mangrove trees, send up from their widely spreading horizontal 

 roots vertical branches with soft pith-like wood, which serve to facilitate the inter- 

 change of gas between the atmosphere and the roots landed in the mud of the tidal 

 swamp. 



B. Petals none. 



2. S. apetala, Ham. Vera. Keora, Sundr. ; Tivar, Mar. ; Kanbala, Burma. 



A gregarious tree, attaining 50 ft., wood reddish-brown, hard, branches 

 pendulous, foliage light glaucous-green. L. lanceolate, Wade 3-5, petiole J— J in. 

 long. Fl. whitish. 1 in. across, in 3-5-fld. terminal corymbs, calyx not ribbed, 

 segments 4. longer than tube, stigma large peltate, top convex. Capsule 

 depressed-globose. J in. diam. 



Smidrilian. banks of tidal rivers. Pegu and Tenasserim, tidal forests. Coasts of the 

 Konkan. Fl. April-June. Ceylon. 3. S. alba, Smith, Andamaus, Mergui. Konkan. 

 Ceylon rare). Coasts of tropical Africa. Asia and Australia. A shrub or small tree, 

 1. broadly ovate, rl. lJr-2 in. across, usually 2 or 3 at the ends of branchlets, calyx-seg- 

 ments 6, randy 7 or 8, fruiting calyx ribbed, ribs as many as segments. 4. S. Griffitnii, 

 Kurz. Coasts of Pegu and Tenasserim, ascending the rivers as far as the tide. Similar 

 to S. acida but without petals. Regarded by King in Jouni. As. Soc. BerJg. vol. 67, 11. 

 as an apetalous form of S. acida. 



Woodfordia floribunda, Salisb. : Collett Simla Fl. 193, rig. 57. — Syn. W. tomentosa, Bedd. 

 Man. t. 11. f. 1 : II". frulieosa, Kurz F. Fl. i. 5ls : Grislea tomentosa, Eoxb. Cor. PI. t. 31. 

 Vein, lilin. Dhawi, Dhewtie, Dhau, Dhawla, Hind.; Icha, Kol; Dhaiti, Mar.: Jaji, 

 Velakkai, Tel. ; Yet hyi, Pattagyi, Upper Burma. Widely spread, from tropical Africa. 

 Arabia to India, ascending to 5,000 ft. in the Himalaya, and to both Peninsulas. China 

 and the Indian Archipelago. A large ornamental shrub, more or less pubescent. 1. oppo- 

 site, sometimes in whorls of ;-',, sessile, from a broad base lanceolate. 2—1 in. long, under- 

 side white with black dots. Fl. numerous, hexamerous, slightly zygomorphic, bright 

 brick-red. in round lateral clusters, generally from the axils of fallen leaves, pedicels 

 dilated above. Calyx tubular curved, coloured, mouth oblique, segments short, alter- 

 nating with minute teeth, petals 6, short, linear-lanceolate. Stamens 12, inserted near the 

 bottom of calyx, lilaments lonir-exscrted. ovary 2-celled. Capsule J-i in. long, enclosed 

 by calyx-tube, splitting irregularly. Fl. used for dyeing silk. 



4. CRYPTERONIA, Bkirne ; Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. 573. 



Evergreen trees, I. opposite. Fl. polygamous, male and bisexual on different 

 branches, pnssihK on did'cronl nves. PI. minute, iii elongate panicled racemes. 

 i 'alyx cup-shaped, adnate to base of ovary, segments 5, rarely 4, petals 0. J : 

 Stamens long exserted, alternating wit h calyx-segments, surrounding a rudi- 

 mentary ovary, anther cells on the edges of a broad connective. i-C : Stamens 

 Bhort, ovary 2-celled, style cylindric. Capsule 2-oelled, 2-valvcd. 'crowned by 

 the two halves of the persistent style. Seeds numerous, testa produced at 

 each end. Species 5. India and Indian Archipelago. 



C. paniculata, Blume; Kurz K. Fl. i. 519; King in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 

 vol. io. .">. -Syn. ( '. pubeecens, Blnm&.—Ifewl&via pubescens, Wall. PI. \- 

 Rar. t. 221 : < '. i/lnln-ti, Illume. Writ. Aiianlm, Burin. 



A large tree, barfc silvery grey. I., elliptic acute at both ends, glabrous i 

 thinly pubescent beneath, blade 3-6, pat \ in. long. Fl. numerous, greenish- 

 white, calj X-teeth triangular. 



Khasi bills, Chittagong. Pegu, Martaban and Tenasserim. PI. Nov. Feb. Malay 

 Peninsula. 



Punica Granatum, Finn.: Wight III. t. !i7. The Pomegranate. Ycrn. Xargo$ah, 

 I'.al.; Darana, Dharu, Pnn.j. : 4nor,Hind.; Dalimhe, Kan. ; Danima, Tel. Indigenous 

 in Persia and Afghanistan Common in Hazara, I 6,000 ft., apparently wild. 

 Cultivated and naturalized from remote antiquity in India. Syria. Palestine, North 

 Africa, Gr le and Italy. A deciduous shrub or small tree, branchlets often spin- 



