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DESCRIPTION OF 
naceous wings, smooth, one-celled, one- 
seeded. Seed oblong, with five obtuse an- 
gles. Jntegument membranaceous, easily 
separated. Albumen none. Embryo con- 
form to the seed. Cotyledons plano-con- 
vex, angled exteriorly. Radicle conical, 
very small. 
Ons. The structure of the seed is here 
different from what generally obtains in 
the Combretacee, the cotyledons being 
solid, not convolute. 
W. J. 
Decanpria Monoaynia.—Nat. Ord. 
. COMBRETACEX. Br 
PYRRHANTHUS. 
Calyx 5-fidus, superus, persistens. Co- 
rolla 5-petala, calyce longior. Stamina 
5—10, erecta, coroll duplo longiora. Ova- 
rium uniloculare, ovulis 3—5, pendulis. 
Mee garyophylliformis, cg — 
inter Rhizophoras parus ; foliis crassis 
ad apices ramorum confertis, floribus sub- 
corymbosis. 
PYRRHANTHUS LITTOREUSs. JW. J. 
Mira buta. Malay, and in Sumatra, Kayu 
|-api. 
Native of Sumatra, and in the Malay 
. Peninsula, growing among Mangroves in 
salt swamps, and near the mouths of rivers. 
It is one of the most ornamental trees that 
occur in these situations, 
It grows to be a large Tree, generally 
with an irregular, crooked trunk. Leaves 
irregularly crowded at the extremities of 
the branches, which are rough with their 
persistent vestiges, subsessile, cuneiform, 
retuse, attenuated at the base into a very 
- Short petiole, obtusely crenate, often nearly 
= entire, smooth, thick and fleshy, almost 
“= veinl tipules none. Racemes short, 
, twice as long as 
ivit varying in num- 
ber from five to e erect, twice as long as 
MALAYAN PLANTS. 
the corolla ; filaments red, subulate ; an- 
thers oblong, purple, attached by the mid- 
dle. vary inferior, about the size and 
shape of a clove, onecelled, containing 
from three to five ovules, which are pendu- 
lous from the top of the cell. „Style one. 
Berry or drupe somewhat compressed, 
obtusely angled, crowned by the thick, 
persistent calyx; nut oblong, with two 
prominent angles, one-seeded. Seed ex- 
albuminous. Embryo inverse. Cotyledons 
convolute. 
BS. The number of the stamens is 
very variable, seven is perhaps the most 
frequent; five and six are common, but 
ten, the complete number, is rare. The 
number of ovules varies also.. The genus 
is most nearly related to Laguncularia, of 
Gertner, but seems to differ in its corolla 
and stamens. It has some resemblance to 
Kada Kandel, Rheed. H. Mal. VI. p. 67. 
t. 37, a figure which has not, I believe, 
been quoted, and may possibly be another 
species of this genus. Kayu Api-api is 
the name generally given to this tree in 
Sumatra, but is applied by Rumphius to 
his Mangium album, Herb. Amb. HI. pt. 
115, t. 66, which is a species of Avicennia, 
probably the A. resinifera of Forster, 
known in Sumatra by the name of Pelan- 
dok Kayu. It appears to be distinct from 
A. tomentosa, having lanceolate, acute 
leaves, white beneath, but not tomentose, 
and the fruit being much smaller. 
PHALERIA. W. J. 
(OcrANDRIA MoNOGYNIA.) 
* 
Perianthium coloratum, tubulosum, in- 
ferum, lim ito. Stamina 8, ex- 
serta. Ovarium biloculare, 2 - sporum, 
ovulis pendulis. Stigma capitatum. Bacca 
bilocularis, disperma. Semina exalbumi- 
nosa, embryone inverso, — Frutex, foliis 
suboppositis, floribus azillaribus. This 
nc genus is related to the Thymelee, but a 
ick, differs in having a bilocular ovary and fruit- : 
PHALERIA CAPITATA. W. J. 
Native of Sumatra 
A shrub, with anoo brsnhos. Leaves 
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