Meee. 
Calystabe obtuse at the base, not ribbed, the lobes nearly as long 
Bruguiera. | RHIZOPHORES. 449 
the fleshy disk, 2-cleft, the lobes capillary multifid. Stamens numer- 
ous, the filaments capillary. Ovary half-inferior, produced in a 
h : 
middle of the axis; style filiform, with a S-cleft stigma. Fruit 
coriaceous, surrounded by the reflexed calyx-lobes, 1-celled and 
l-seeded. Seed pendulous, germinating and protruding its elon- 
gate-clavate radicle from the apex of the fruit while still on the 
tree ; cotyledons conferruminate.—Little trees or rather shrubs, 
with coriaceous lucid leaves. Flowers rather large, white. 
1. K. Rheedei, WA. ; Bedd. Sylv. Madr. 100, t. 13, £.6.—An 
evergreen little tree or rather simple-stemmed shrub, 3 to 5 ft. 
high, all parts glabrous ; leaves oblong to elliptically oblong, nar- 
rowed at the base, blunt, rather shortly petioled, coriaceous, glossy 
above ; flowers rather large, whitish, in poor long-peduncled axillary 
ong. 
Has.—F; i the tidal forests all ab the coasts from Chittago: 
to Pega 13. Fregent goes Sa ee era i = 
BRUGUIERA, Lamk. 
Calyx without bractlets, the tube obversely conical or bell-shaped, 
the limb 8-14-parted, valvate. Petals 8-14, inserted on the margin 
of 
base convolute and embracing the stamens. Stamens 16-28, by 
pairs opposite the petals ; — filiform. Ovary inferior, 2.4. 
celled, with 2 ovules in each cell ; style filiform with a 2-4-cleft 
on ag 
* Flowers small; calyx-tube almost club-shaped ; the limb 
als 8. 
S-cleft; peta 
— tapering at the base, ribbed, the lobes very short and 
* “ Flowers rather large ; calyz- tube almost belt shaped 
the limb 8-14-parted ; petals 8-14 . B. gymnorhiza. 
1. B. parviflora, WA.; Bedd. Sylv. Madr. 101.—An ever- 
eer at tree or shrub, all parts quite moar leaves oblong 
the length of, or r longer than, the able: calystao 
