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placenta forms the hood covering the cotyledons at the apex o£- 

 the mature seed ; seed exalbuminous, curved : embryo cylindri-, 

 cal, curved, thick ; radicle inferior, sulcated ; pericarp elongat- 

 ed, arched, withojit nerve or suture, longitudinally striated, 

 somewhat fleshy within, pijnctuate witli resinoijs matter, at lengthy 

 splitting lengShwise. on one or both sides. 



GENUS ^GICERAS, 



Pentandrla aionosynla. Sex-. Syit: 



Deriv. From ^ix, Aigos, a goat, and Keras, a. horn, alludjn^ 

 to the form of the fruit. 



Gen. Char. Same as that of the Order. 



(1) M. MAJUS, (Gccrtn.). 



Ident. Dec. prod. VIII. p. 142.^Gaertn. fr. I. p. 216.— Roxb, 

 fl. Ind. III. p. 130. 



Syn. M. fragrans, Koet^.-r-M. obovatum, Blume. — JE. flori- 

 dum, Boem, <$■ Schult. — Rhizophora corniculata, Linn. 



Engrav. Hook. Bot. M!isc. III. t. 21. — Rheede Mai. 6. t. 36. 

 — Koen. Ann. Bot. I. t. 3.— Wight's III. II. t. 146.— Rumph. 

 Amb. III. t. 77. 



Spec. Char. Milky shrub : leaves obovate, rounded, obtuse, 

 often retuse : flowers in terminal umbels, pure white, fragrant : fruit 

 elongated, falcate, 3-4 time^ longer than the pedicels. 



Common in salt marshes in Malabar and Eae^tern Cqast, SpoA;. 

 derbuns. Flowering in the hot season. 



OBDER XCIX. SAFOTACEiE. 



Trees or shrubs often, abounding in milky juice : leaves alter- 

 mate or almost whorled, entire, coriaceous : inflorescence axil., 

 lary: flowers hermaphrodite: calyx 5-or occasionally 4-8-lobed, 

 Talvate or imbricate in aestivation : corolla monopetalous, hypo- 

 gynous, regular, deciduous, its segments usually equal in num- 

 ber to those of the calyx, seldom twice or thrice as many, imr 

 bricated in aestivation; stamens inserted on the corolla, dis- 

 tmct; usually partly fertile, partly sterile, the former equalling;, 

 the number of lobes aud opposite them, the lat^r al(eruaite»^ 



