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GENUS IX. SONNERATTA. 
Keosandria Monogynia. Sex: Syst 
‘Beriv. Named after Mons. Sonnerat, the French Traveller andi 
Naturalist. 
Gen. Cuar. Cnlyx campanulate, 4—6-cleft, cohering with the 
evary at the base: lobes acute: sstivation valvular: petals 4-6, 
alternating with the lobes of the calyx or wanting: filaments dis< 
tinct: ‘anthers roundish: style filiform: stigma large,’ peltate : 
frnit baccate, attached by its base to the calyx, nearly globose; 
many-celled: cells separated by thin dissepiments: seeds numer~ 
ous, curved : covered with fleshy pulp: embryo, curved: cotyledons. 
unequal, leafy, convolute. 
(1) S. acta. (Linn. ) 
Ident. W.& A. prod. I. p. 327.—-Dec. prod. III. p. 281.-= 
Roxb, fl. Ind. II. p. 506. | * 
Syn. Rhizophora caseolaris, Lian. 
Engrav. Wight’s Icon. t. 340.—Rheede “Mal. HII. t. 40.— 
Rumph. Amb. II1. t. 74, 
Spec. Cuan. Small tree: branchlets 4-angled: leaves opposite, 
oval-oblong, quite entire, thickish, l.nerved, almost veinless, not 
dotted : petals 6, narrow-lanceolate : flowers. usually solitary, large, 
reddish. 
Soonderbunds. Salsette. Backwatersin. Travancore. Malabar. 
Flowering nearly all the year. 
ORDER LX. RHIZOPHORACEZ. 
Trees or shrubs with simple, opposite leaves, and interpetio-~ 
lar stipules: calyx 4-13-lobed, valvate in estivation: petals 
inserted on the calyx, alternate with the lobes, and equal to. 
them in number: stamens inserted with the petals, twice or. 
several times as mary: filaments distinct : anthers erect, straight 
or incurved ; ovary 2-celled, adhering to the calyx or 1-celled with 
a central column : ovules 2 in each cell or several when 1- 
celled, pendulous: fruit indehiscent: seed solitary: albumen 
none. 
