448 RHIZOPHORE. ©. [ Ceriops. 
Has.—Frequent in the littoral, especially the mangrove, forests from Arra- 
can and Pegu down to Tenasserim and the Andamans.—l.—SS,=Sal. 
CERIOPS, Arn. 
Calyx subtended by bract lets united in a ws the tube short 
and at the base adnate to the ovary, the limb 5-6 parted, valvate. 
Petals 5-6, inserted to the base of the 10-12-lobed fleshy disk, 
notched, the lobes clavate-bristly. Stamens 10-12, by pairs opposite 
the petals, ¢ the filaments ne Ovary half-inferior, 3-celled, 
with 2 pendulous ovules in eac » produced in a fleshy cone ; 
style short with a simple stigma. “Prait coriaceous, surrounded by 
the reflexed sly Jotes, l-celled and l-seeded. Seed pendulous, 
germinating and protruding its elongate-clavate radicle from the 
top of the fruit while still on the tree ; cotyledons conferruminate.— 
Little, usually pygmean, trees or rather simple-stemmed sheuba 
with lucid coriaceous leaves ose. 
Flowers in Mie man ti Joncila cymes; petals a 
ciliate to C. Roxburghiana. 
Flowers in rather loose sepmes petals ‘terminated uf 2 or 3 club- 
shaped appendages - C. Candolleana. 
1. C, Roxburghiana, 5 = ~pyaing. ao evergreen pyg- 
Seer tree or rather simple-stemmed shrub, 2 to 4 ft. high, all 
uite glabrous ; leaves obovate or oboval, acute at base, rather 
ar petioled, blunt, coriaceous, glabrous, elossy above ; flowers 
small, greenish, sessile or nearly so, forming a dense capitate cyme 
on a very short and thick peduncle ; ‘petals whitish, coneave, setose- 
ciliate towards the apex ; stamens 10-12 ; fruits small, club-shaped. 
Has.—Frequent in the littoral forests all along the coast from Chittagong 
down to Tenasserim.—l.—SS.=Sal. 
2. C. Candolleana, Arn. ; Bedd. Sylv. Madr. t. 18,f. 5; Brand. 
For. Fl. 218.—An evergreen dwarf tree or simple-stemmed shrub, 
a 
ed at the base, blunt or sometimes notched, rather long- 
petio tioled, glabrous, glossy above; flowers small, very shortly pedicelled 
in short but loose eymes ; petals obovate with flat m argins, some- 
what roughish on the outside, terminated by 2 or 3 a clih- shaped 
appendages ; stamens nearly as long as the petals, glabrous; fruits 
small, club-sh aped. 
Has.—tin the mangrove swamps along the shores of the Andamans.—l.— 
K IA, WA. 
Calyx subtended by bractlets aielcke oops the tee ee 
m ee ie Petals 5-6, inserted to the base of 
