31-4 G. King — Materials for a Flora of the "Malayan Peninsula. [No. 1, 



stigma 2-4-lobed, minute. Fruit coriaceous, included in or adnate to 

 the calyx-tube, 1-celled, 1-seeded. Germination as in Rhizophora. 

 Distrib. Species about 7, in the tropics of the Old World. 



Flowers I in. long or upwards, solitary : — 



Petals 2-lobed, each lobe with 2-4 apical bristles, other- 

 wise glabrous ... . . ... ... l. B. gymndrhiza. 



Petals 2-lobed, the sinus between the lobes with one 



bristle ; the edges densely clothed with short white hairs 2. B. eri&petala. 



Flowers not more than 5 in. long, in axillary cymes : — 

 Lobes of the calyx as long as the tube, spreading or 

 reflexed ; petals bifid, each lobe crowned by 3-5 pale 



hairs, their edges with scanty white hairs outside ... 3. B. caryophylloides. 

 Lobes of calyx only one-fonrth the length of the tube, 

 erect ; petals with broad emarginate apex, bearing 

 5 white flexaose hairs, the edges glabrous ... 4. B. parvijlora. 



1. Brugdiera gymnorhiza, Lamk. Encycl. IV, 696 ; 111. t. 397. A 

 large glabrous evergreen tree : young branches stout, marked with 

 cicatrices towards the apex. Leaves elliptic or elliptic- oblong, acute, 

 the base cuneate ; upper surface shining when dry, the nerves faint; 

 the lower dull, the veins invisible but the midrib very prominent ; length 

 3 5-6 in., breadth 175-2'5 in., petiole 1*3—1*6 in. Flowers solitary, 

 axillary, 1*25-1 '5 in. long ; the peduncles about *35 in., deflexed. Calyx 

 coriaceous, campanulate, ribbed, cut for half its length into 12 narrow 

 acute suberect teeth. Petals shorter than the calyx-lobes and equal to 

 them in number, sub-convolute, two-lobed at the apex and with 2-4 

 bristles at the point of each lobe, pubescent at the base, otherwise glab- 

 rous. Stamens two opposite each petal and shorter than it, each alter- 

 nate filament short ; anthers linear. Fruit small, in the fundus of the 

 calyx-tube, containing a single seed germinating in situ and forming a 

 cylindric radicle 1-2 feet long prior to its fall. W. & A. Prodr. 311 

 Brand. For. Fl. 219 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. T, pt. 1, 586 ; Blume Mus. Bot 

 136; Kurz For. Flor. Burm. I, 450; Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 437 

 Dalz. & Gibs. Fl. Bomb. 95 ; Trime Flora Ceylon, I, 153. B. Rheedii 

 Miq. 1. c. 587 ; Blume, 1. c. 136 ; Wght Ic. t. 239 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb 

 Fl. 95 ; Hook. Ic. PI. t. 397. Rhizophora gymnorrhiza, Linn. Sp. 634 

 Roxb. Fl. Ind. II, 46G ; Griff. Ic. PI. Asiat. t. 645 ; Wall. Cat. 4874 

 Thwuites En. PI. Ceyl. 120. 



Tidal Forests in all the provinces. Distrib. Malaya, Australia, 

 Africa. 



2. Brdguiera eriopetala, W. & A. in Wight 111. I, p. 210 ; Wight 

 Icon. 239 B. A tree ; young branches slender, with cicatrices towards 

 the apex. Leaves oblong-lanceolate or oval- oblong, sometimes rather 

 oblanceolate, acute, the base very cuneate ; upper surface shining, the 



