Rhizophora. | RHIZOPHORER. 447 
Calyx 4-cleft; petals entire; ovary 2-celled, with 2 ovules in 
heel . é ‘ . > . i ; . Rhizophora. 
Calyx 5-6-cleft ; petals notched and appendaged ; ovary 3-celled, 
with 2 ovules ineach cell .« . : . : é é 
Calyx 5-6-cleft; petals shagged; filaments capillary ; ovary 1- 
ed with 6 ovules. . * ° s . . Kandelia, 
Calyx 8-14-cleft; petals 2-cleft, appendaged; filaments filiform ; 
ovary 2-4-celled, with a solitary ovule in each cell F . Bruguiera. 
x ryo immersed in a fleshy albumen, Seeds not 
Ceriops. 
germinating before their fall. 
Calyx bell-shaped beyond the ovary; ovary-cells 2-ovuled ; 
fl i A: « . . ‘ ‘ : “ ‘ . Carallia. 
* %*& Ovary superior or nearly so, with a broad base adnate 
to the calyx. 
Calyx without bractlets; ovary-cells 4-ovuled ~ + + + Gynotroches, 
RHIZOPHORA, L. 
Calyx subtended by bractlets united in a cup, 4-parted, valvate. 
Petals 4, inserted to the base of the fleshy disk, entire. Stamens 
8-12 ; filaments short. Ovary half-inferior, 2-celled, produced in 
a fleshy cone; style subulate with a 2-toothed stigma ; cells with 2 
suspended ovules. Fruit coriaceous, surrounded with the calyx- 
lobes, l-celled and l-seeded. Seed pendulous with an elongate 
radicle protruding from the apex of the capsule while still on the 
tree. Cotyledons conferruminate. Albumen none.—Saline trees, 
with very glossy leathery leaves. 
14), all parts glabrous ; leaves oval to elliptically oblong, mucronate 
by the excurrent midrib, 3-7 in. long, narrowed at the base, 
rather long-petioled, blunt, coriaceous, very glossy, glabrous ; flowers 
rather large, yellowish, pedicelled, in 2-3-cleft axillary pedun 
cymes ; petals villous along their inflexed margins; stamens 8 ; fruit 
large, about an inch in diameter. 
Has.—Frequent in the tidal, especially the mangrove, forests from Arracan 
and Pegu down to Tenasserim.—l.—SS.—Sal. 
Remarxs—Wood greyish, close-grained, rather heavy. Bark good for 
tanning. 
R. conjugata, L.; Bedd. Sylv. Madr. 99.—Pyoo.—An ever- 
green tree (15 —25+6—10 + 1—1}4), all parts glabrous ; leaves ob- 
long to oblong and elliptically-lanceolate, narrowed and usually 
shortly petioled, coriaceous, very glabrous, glossy ; flowers large, by ; 
9.3 sessile on a short thick simple axillary peduncle; petals fist. 
glabrous ; stamens 8-12, usually 11 ; fruit about $an in. thick, 
