334 G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 1, 



Penang ; Wallich. Singapore ; Lobb. Trang ; King's Collector. 

 Andamans ; King's Collector. Distrib. British India. 



There is a variety of this, with glabrous leaves and with the longer stamens 

 equalling the calyx-lobes, to which Kurz has given the varietal name floribunda, 

 his name for the typical form being C. nutans. 1 have seen no specimens of the 

 glabrous variety from any of the Malayan provinces. 



3. Lumnitzera, Willd. 



Large glabrous shrubs or small trees, growing in tropical salt 

 marshes along with Mangroves and closely resembling them in habit. 

 Leaves clustered towards the ends of the branches, alternate, thickly 

 leathery, subsessile, narrowly obovate, entire or scarcely crenate. 

 Flowers in racemes. Calyx-tube with two adnate bracteoles near the 

 base, oblong, narrowed at both ends, produced above the ovary ; lobes 

 5, persistent. Petals 5, oblong. Stamens 10 in two series, or fewer. 

 Ovary inferior, 1-celled ; style subulate, simple ; ovules 2-5, pendulous 

 from the top of the cell. Fruit woody, elliptic-oblong, |-1 in. (includ- 

 ing the calyx-limb), longitudinally striate or nearly smooth. Seed 1 ; 

 cotyledons convolute. — Distrib. Species 2 ; on the shores of the tropics 

 of the Old World and of Polynesia. 



Petals scarlet ; stamens twice as long as the petals and of the 



same colonr ... ... ... ... ... 1. L. coccinea. 



Petals white; stamens of the same colour and length as the 



petals ... ... ... ... ... 2. L. racemosa. 



1. Lumnitzera coccinea, W. & A. Prodr. 316. A small tree 12-40 

 feet high. Leaves oblanceolate, obtuse, 2-3 in. long. Racemes terminal, 

 sometimes several together forming a panicle. Petals scarlet, *25 in. 

 long. Stamens 5-10 (usually 7), twice as long as the petals and of the 

 same colour. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I. pt. I, p. 606 ; Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. 

 Ind. II, 452. L. littorea, Voigt Hort. Suburb. Calc. 39 Kurz For. Fl. 

 Brit. Burma, I, 469. L. pentandra, Griff. Notul. IV, 684, andlc. PI. Asiat. 

 t. 644. Pyrranthus littoreus, Jack Mai. Misc. II, 57 ; Wall. Cat. 4018. 



Andaman Islands. Perak; King's Collector 1180; Scortechini 1001; 

 and probably in the Mangrove swamps of all the provinces ; Distrib. 

 British India, the Malayan Archipelago, North Australia and Polynesia. 



2. Lumnitzera racemosa, Willd. in Ges. Naturf. Fr. Neue Schr. 

 IV, (1803), 187. A small tree 20-40 feet high. Leaves oblanceolate to 

 oval, obtuse, 1-3 in. long. Racemes axillary, elongating in fruit. Petals 

 minute, white. Stamens 5-10, about as long as the petals and also 

 white. DC. Prodr. Ill, 22; W. & A. Prodr. 316; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 

 I, pt. I, 006; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 90 ; Tulasne in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. 

 IV, Vol. IV, p. 103; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. PI. XXI; Brand. For. Fl. 221; 



