276 VERBENACER. [ Avicennia, 
indistinct adnate tomentum; leaves variable, from lanceolate to 
obovate, acuminate or acute at the base and tapering into a whitish 
3-5 lin. long petiole, acuminate or bluntish to rounded at the apex, 
13-3 in. long, coriaceous, entire, glabrous and glossy above, beneath 
covered with a silvery white, appressed, indistinct tomentum; flowers 
pale ochre-yellow, very small, sessile, forming short almost. distich- 
ous spikes arranged into a short, brachiate, silvery white panicle at 
the end of the branches and in the axils of the leaves; calyx about 
a line long or somewhat longer, the lobes rounded, glabrous or 
silky pubescent, ciliate or not ; corolla almost rotate, as long as the 
calyx, the tube glabrous and hardly }-4 lin. long, the lobes a line 
long, appressed silky-pubescent outside; ovar pubescent; style 
very short ; capsules ovate-compressed, indistinctly silvery-tomen- 
tose, transversely wrinkled, acuminate; radicle of seed long, fur- 
nished with a thick brush just below the conical apex. 
Has.—Frequent in the tidal forests all along the coast of Burma from Chit- 
agong down to Tenasserim and the Andamans.—Fl. begin. of R.S.—1.—SS= 
2. A, tomentosa, Roxb.—An evergreen tree (20—35+10—15 
+3—4), the young shoots covered with a minute, adnate, tawny 
sha 
the fallen style, tawny velvety-tomentose ; radicle densely villous. 
Hap.—Frequent in the tidal forests all along the coast of Burma, from Chit 
n .—F. begin. of R.8.—I.—SS.=Sal. 2 
LABIAT&. 
Flowers irregular, very rarely almost recul Cal istenty 
; » y almost regular. Calyx pers 
2-lipped or 5-toothed. ‘Corolla more or less 2-lipped or : 
nearly equally 4-5-lobed, imbricate in the bud. Stamens 2 or 4 : 
pairs, inserted in the tube of the corolla and alternating with 
lower lobes. Anthers either 2-celled or 1-celled by abortion or 
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