LIII. EHIZOPHORACE^. 



I. MANGROYE SERIES. 

 The Mangroves are especially kuo-wn by their long adventitious 



Shizopkora Mangle. 



Fig. 254. Flower (f). 



Fig, 255. Diagram. Fig. 256. Long. sect, of flower. 



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Fig. 258. Fruit. 



Fig. 257. Dehiscent Fig. 260. Fruit, Fig. 259. Long, 



stamen. with germinating seed. sect, of firait. 



roots which descend into the mud, whence the name Bhizophora^ (fig. 

 253-260). They have regular and hermaphrodite flowers, the concave 



1 L. Gen. n. 692 (part).— J. Gen. 213, 453.— 

 Lamk. Diet. vi. 160; III. t. .396.— Dup.-Th. 

 Desvx. Jown. Bot. ii. 31, t. 4. — DC. Prodr. iii. 

 32 (part).— Spach, Suit. A Buffm, iv. 332.— 



Endl. Gen. u. 6098.— H. Bn. Fayer lam. Nat. 

 360.— B. H. Gen. 678, n. 1.— Hook. Fl. Ind. 

 ii. 435. — Mangle Piukn. ex Adans. Fam. des 

 Fl. ii. 445. 



