526 LYTHRARIEZ. [ Sonneratia. 
—Wood yellowish, turning pale brown or greyish, somewhat mot- 
tled, heavy, puede fibrous, but rather close-grained, rather hard, takes good 
polish. 0’=30 pd. Used in house-building. 
SONNERATIA, Lf. 
Calyx thick coriaceous, the tube ot Sag bell-shaped, at the 
base adnate to the ovary, 4-6-lobed, the lobes lanceolate or tri- 
angular. Petals 4-8, narrow, or see ‘Shae, numerous, in- 
serted at the summit of the calyx-tube, inflected in bud. Ovary 
10-15-celled, with very numerous ascending ovules covering the 
thick axile —— ; style elongate, with a funnel- or umbrella- 
shap. Fruit fleshy and oe supported by the 
wes ; : 
pulp, angular. —Trees or er : with opposite entire leaves. Flowers 
often large, solitary or by in the axils of the upper leaves or 
at the end of the branchlets. 
* Stigma rifumnasties J abcd capitate, small. Calyx 6-8-lobed. 
Petals p 
Leaves obovate, anst; 7 eta Hoper eos oxen else 
S. acida. 
O G No petals. 
Calyx in bud elliptically eo — the tube in — — 
afterwards strongly 6 . &. alba. 
Calyx in bud ovoid, obtuse, the tue remaining te . Griffithii. 
* * Stigma large, m ly 3lin. in piisal By conically 
umbrella Tike. Gales 4-lobed, terete. 
Leaves oblong to lanceolate; no petals . oS . S. apetala. 
1. 8. acida, L.f. ; Bedd. Sylv. Made. 118 ; Brand. For. Fl. 
242.—Tapoo or famoo.— An evergreen small tree, 10 to 15 ft. 
high, all parts glabrous, the branchlets jointed, 4-cornered ; leaves 
obovate to obovate-oblong, tapering into a broad but short ‘petiole, 
blunt or usually retuse, entire, coriaceous, 2-4 in. long, glabrous, 
the nerves little or not visible ; flowers about 2 in. in diameter, on 
very short thick peduncles, solitary at the end of the branchlets ; 
calyx-tube “ee shallow, about 3 in. across, with usually 6, rarely 
7 or 8, thick, reflexed, acute lobes ; petals linear, acuminate, 14 in. 
long, dark nota g filaments 1-14 in. long ; ripe berries 2-24 in. in 
espiagi depressed- globular, many-cell ed. 
the ae from C ittagong own to Tenasserim and the Andamans, ascen 
_ the rivers as far up as the tidal waves.—Fl. R.S. ; Fr. C81) O88 Sel. 
acai — Wood soft, light and perishable. 
8. age Sm.—An evergreen small tree, 10 to 15 ft. high, 
: often shrubby, all parts glabrous, the branchlets rather 
terete ; leaves obovate or broadly obovate, at the base decurrent on 
Ta ; = Be Phvtedd Sees blunt or retuse, 2-4 in. long, coriaceous, 
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