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Sonneratia. ] LYTHRARIER. «627 
glabrous, the nerves little visible ; flowers rather large, about 14 to 
n. in diameter, sessile on the short jointed pedicel (the base of 
the calyx finally elongating into a spurious pedicel), usually by 
2 or 3, each seated on a terete jointed peduncle at the end of the 
branchlets ; calyx in bud elliptically oblong, acute, obsoletely cor- 
nered at the base, afterwards sharply 6- or rarely 7-8-angular ; lobes 
as many as angles, os ape acute ; petal none ; stamens 
about 13 in. long ; stigma funnel-shaped ; berries supported by the 
sige angular arbinate « calyx, deptecstil olga 
4B.—In the littoral forests along the coast of the Andamans.—Fl. Apr.- 
May. se —SS.—Sal. 
3. §. Griffithii, Kz.— Zapyoo.—An evergreen tree, 30 to 40 ft. 
high, all parts quite glabrous, the branchlets terete or 4-cornered ; 
leaves obovate to obovate- or deltoid-oblong, blunt or retuse, at the 
base decurrent on the rather short petiole, coriaceous, 3-5 — long, 
glaucous-green ; flowers pure white, about 3 in. in diameter, sessile 
on the short jointed pedicel, solitary, on a jointed terete potils at 
the end of he branchlets ; calyx in bud ovoid, blunt, also in fruit 
quite terete, 6- rarely 7-8-lobed, the lobes oblong, acute ; stamens 
and stigma as in preceding species ; berries (according to Griffith) 
globose, the size of a poppy capsule, on both sides complanate, 
crowned by the remains of the style and supported by the terete 
bed calyx. 
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4B.—Common in the littoral forests from Pegu down te ai 
ssocnting the rivers as ar as they are brackish. —FI. Apr.-May.—s,—_S8.=Sal. 
4, iat = Buch. ; — Sylv. Madr. 118, t. 15, f 1.—Kan- 
in pone on terete or d-commeied ahoub an a inch long —— 
usually by 3-5 at the end of the branchlets ; a in bud se 
bluntish, terete, 4-lobed, the lobes oblong. acute ; stamens as long 
as the x-lobes ; stigma very large, conically peltate ; berries 
globular, as od as a ‘bullet, 4-6-celled, supported by the terete 
erect-lobed cal 
a ‘Very common in the littoral (chiefly the tidal) forests of lied coasts of 
Pegu do to Ten —— ascending the rivers as far as they rackish.— 
Fi. > Aa ; Fr. R.S—1—SS.=Sal. 
ReMarKs.—Wood red, aa. strong and hard. Good for house- 
building,  iuademes os 
