RHIZOPHORACEm. 303 



lobes of disk ; anthers oblong. Germen semi-inferior, 2-3-locTilar ; 

 cells 2-ovulate; style at apex simple subulate. Fruit, etc., of 

 Bhizopkora ; seed germinating as in Bhizophora. — Trees ; opposite 

 leaves and stipules of Bhizophora ; flowers subcapitate, 2-3-clioto- 

 mously cymoso-glomerulate. (Trap. Asia, Africa, and Oceania}) 



3. Bruguiera Lamk.^— Flowers nearly of Bhizophora, 8-14- 

 merous ; petals setiferous, 2-lobed and each enfolding a pair of stamens.^ 

 Stamens 16-28; filaments finally elastically resilient from petals; 

 anthers introrse linear- oblong. Germen inferior, 2-4-locular ; style at 

 apex minutely 2-4-fid ; ovules, etc., of Bhizophora. Fruit turbinate, 

 crowned with accrescent calyx ; seed germinating as in Bhizophora. — 

 Trees ; leaves and stipules of Bhizophora ; flowers* axillary solitary 

 or cymose few, nutant. (Trop. shores of Asia, Africa, and Oceania.^) 



4. Kandelia Wight and Aen.^ — Flowers nearly of Bhizophora, 

 6-6-merous ; stamens oo ; filaments capillary ; anthers oblong. 

 Germen sub-1-locular ; ovules 6, inserted 2-nately on columnar pla- 

 centa (in 1-locular ovary), descending ; style at apex 3-fid. Other 

 characters of Bhizophora. — Small trees ; opposite leaves and inter- 

 petiolate stipules of Bhizophora ; flowers ^ cymose pedunculate 

 axillary few. (East Indian shores.^) 



II. BAREALDEIE^. 



5. Barraldeia Dup.-Th. — Flowers hermaphrodite; receptacle very 

 concave. Sepals 4-8, inserted in margin, valvate. Petals same in 



' Spec. 1, 2. Wight, Icon. t. 240. — MiQ. Fl. Nat. Rist. i. 365. — Mia. Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. i. 



Ind.-Bat. i. p. i.590; Suppl. 126, 324.— Benth. 586 ; Suppl. 126, 324.— TuL. Ann. Se. Nat. ser. 



Fl. SmgTc. 120; Fl. Austral, ii. 493.— Thw. 4, tI. 113. — Benth. J/. ^ms^toZ. ii. 494. — Hart. 



Fnwm. Fl. Zeyl. 120. — TuL. Ann. Se. Nat. ser. and Sond. Fl. Cap. ii. 514. — Thw. Fnum. PI. 



4, vi. 111.— Oliv. Fl.-Trop. Afr. ii. 408.— Walp. Zeyl. 120.— Olit. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 409.— Walp. 



Sep. ii. 70 : Ann. ii. 627 ; vii. 950. S,ep. ii. 70 ; Ann. ii. 528 ; vii. 951. 



2 Diet. iv. 696; III. t. 397. — Bndl. Gen. n. « Prodr.i. 310.— Akn. Ann. Nat. Eist.i. 365. 



6101.— H. Bn. Payer Fam. Nat. 3C0.— B. H. — Endl. Gen.-a. 6100.— B-Bn. Payer Fam. Nat. 



Gen. 679, n. 4. — Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 437. — Kanilia 361.— B. H. Gen. 679, n. 3.— Hook. Fl. Ind. ii. 



Bl. Mms. Lugd.-Bat. i. 140. — PaUtuveria Dcp.- 237. 



Th. (ex Endl.). ' Petals multifid-lacerate, wliite, rather large. 



' The alternipetalous stamen generally shorter ' Spec. 1. E. Eheedii Wight and Arn. op. cit. 



and in adult flowers only interior to petal. 311.— Wight, III. i. t. 89.— Benth. Fl. Songk. 



■> Eather large or smaU, articulate. 110.— Miq. Fl. Ind.-Bat. i. p. i. 585.— Hook. 



" Spec. 5, 6. GiEETN. Friiet. i. 213, t. 45, fig. 2 leon. t. 362. — Bhizophora Kandelli. Spee. 634.— 



{Bhizophora). — DC. Prodr. iii. 32, n. 9, 10 DO. Prodr. iii. 32. — Tsjerou Kandel Eheed. 



{Bhizophora). — Geipf. le. iv. t. 641. — Hook. /c. Hort. Malab, vi. t. 35. 

 t. 397, 398.— Wight, Ic. t. 239.— Akn. Ana. 



