1897.] G. King — Materials fur a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 311 



in each cell, pendulous. Fruit 4- furrowed, or separating into 4 or 2 

 carpels. Distrib. Species 15 ; cosmopolitan. 



Myriophyllcm intermedium, DC. Prodr. Ill, 69. Leaves alternate, 

 solitary or in fascicles of two or three, sometimes in whorls, linear, 

 entire or serrate, "5--1 in. long. Fruit axillary, oblong, only about 05 

 in. long, with rounded and minutely scabrous ridges and shallow 

 furrows between, ultimately separating into its component carpels. 

 Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. Vol. I, pt. 1, 634; Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. 

 II, 433. M. indicum, Wight 111. t. 102, (exclude the fruit). M< varise- 

 folium, Hook. Ic. PI. t. 289. M. linear e t Heyne MSS. Haloragis oligan- 

 tha, W. & A. Prodr. 338 ; Wight Ic. t. 1061 (not of Am.) 



Malacca; Griffith (probably on Mount Ophir). Distrib. Moun- 

 tains of the Malayan Archipelago and of the South of British India ; 

 Australia, New Zealand, South America. 



Order XLIV. RHIZOPHOREyE. 



Trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite and stipulate (alternate and 

 exstipulate in Anisophyllea), usually coriaceous, glabrous; stipules 

 interpetiolar, very caducous. Flowers axillary, usually bisexual (uni- 

 sexual in Anisophyllea), surrounded at the base by connate or cupuli- 

 form bracts, or ebracteate. Calyx more or less adnate to the ovary ; 

 limb produced beyond the ovary, 4-14-lobed ; lobes valvate, persistent. 

 Petals equal in number to but usually smaller than the sepals, entire, 

 emarginate, 2-fid or lacerate. Stamens usually twice the number of the 

 petals, in pairs, opposite to and partly embraced by them ; rarely inde- 

 finite (Kandelia) ; anthers 2-celled, rarely multi-loculate (Bhizophora) . 

 Ovary more or less adnate to the calyx, from 5-1 -celled by solution of 

 the septa ; styles connate (distinct in Anisophyllea) ; stigma often lobed ; 

 ovules usually 2 in each cell, pendulous. Fruit coriaceous or woody, 

 crowned or surrounded by the calyx-limb, mostly indehiscent, 1-celled, 

 1-seeded. Seed pendulous, arillate or not ; albumen fleshy or ; embryo 

 inverted, small if surrounded by albumen, elongated if exalbuminous ; 

 radicle macropodous in the tribe Rhizophorese, perforating the apex of 

 the pericarp and germinating while the fruit still adheres to the tree. — 

 Distrib. Tropical plants ; many sharing with an arboreal vegetation the 

 muddy shores of the estuaries of rivers. Genera 17, species about 70. 

 Leaves opposite, stipulate ; style connate : — 

 Thibr I. Rhizophore^:. Embryo exalbuminous, with a large 

 radicle germinating while the fruit is still on the tree : — 

 Calyx 4-lobed; petals 4, entire ; stamens 8; ovary 2- 

 celled ... ... ... ... ... 1. Ehizophora. 



Calyx 8-14-lobed ; petals 8-14, 2-lobed or deeply emar- 

 ginate ; ovary 2-4-celled ; stamens 16-28 ,., ... 2. Bruguiera. 



