342 AVICENNIA, 



half the length of the calyx or somewhat more; bracteoles 

 2; calyx deeply 5-partite, 0.2—0.9 cM., lobes rounded, 

 imbricate, pubescent or subglabrous, margins often ciliate, 

 the base increased and more pubescent than the rest; 

 coro//a-tube very short, lobes 4, thick, with tube glabrous 

 or somewhat pubescent within, glabrous without or 

 pubescent except near the margins, ovate, acute or rounded, 

 subequal, white; the whole 1.1 — 1.6 cM. long and 0.5— 

 1.5 cM. in diam. reducing in size together with the shar- 

 pening of the leaves; stamens 4, little exserted; anthers 

 rounded, the cells opening by a parallel fissure; style vary- 

 ing from short conical to rather slender with cylindrical 

 (or bifid?) stigma; ovary villous in the upper, glabrous in 

 the lower half, glandular, tapering into the style; capsules 

 conical, beaked, 1.3—4 cM. long, greyish, reticulately 

 rippled; seed 1, filling the capsule, when germinating; 

 hypocotyledonous axis short, reaching half the length of 

 the inner cotyledon, pubescent zone short (Schimper). 



Java: Blume, in H. L — B. sub no. 908.265—661 (A. 

 alba Bl). 



Timor: Zippel in H. L— B. sub no. 908.265—623 



(A. eucalyptifolia Zipp.) — Dec.l Forstenl in H. L B. 



sub. no. 908.265—698 (A. resinifera Forst.). 



Saleyer-Islands: Docters van Leeuwen-Reijnvaan no. 

 1934, flow, on 29-V-1913, South-Saleyer. 



Philippines: Elmer nos. 12006 and 11990, Todaya 

 (Mt. Apo), Davao, Mindanao — Fenix no. 15596, Palawan, 

 with fruits in July 1912 — Elmer no. 10451a, Cagayan, 

 Misamis, Mindanao. ~ Com. d. 1. fl. for. de Fil. nos. 

 496 and 497, Bulacan. — Curran no. 17337, Hoilo, 

 Panay-IsL; id. no. 19385, Negros, flow, in June 1910. — 

 Piper no. 174, Cagayan, Misadiis, Mindanao, with buds 

 in Apr. — May 1911. — Perrottet in H. L.— B. sub no. 

 908.265—636, Manilla (A. Rumphiana Hall. f.). 



New-Guinea: Versteeg no. 1893, Merauke, flow, on 



