22 CALYCIFLOR.E 



petals. Style bind at the apex. Fruit crowned 

 with the calyx, indehiscent, i-seeded : seed small : 

 embryo inverted, germinating, protruding ior 

 some length from the seed. 



Name from K a o. root, and <P^ to bear, from the 

 branches thru wing down roots very freely, which descend 

 into the mud, so that every branch is supported by its own 

 root, and the tree extends over a considerable space. 



1. Rhizophora Mangle. The Mangrove. 



Leaves obovato-oblong obtuse, peduncles 2-3 

 flowered longer than the petiole, fruit subulato- 

 clavate. — DC. 



Mangle pyri foliis, cum siliquis longis ficui indici affinis, 

 Sloane, II. 63 — Candela Americana foliis laurinis, Catesb. 

 Car. II. 63. t. 63. — fthizjphora Mangle, Jacq. Amer. 

 141. t. 89. 



H A B. Marshy grounds and Lagoons near the Sea- 

 shore. 



F. L. Throughout the year. 



A tree 20-40 feet in height : branches 3 chotomous, 

 terete, glabrous, ash coloured, shining. Leaves some- 

 what truncated at the ap^x, subcoriaceous, smooth, shin- 

 ing, with a somemhat greasy feel, dark green above, paler 

 beneath, and marked with minute dark excavated dots: 

 petiole compressed. Peduncles axillary, 2-4-5-flowered, 

 with a pair of small ovate appressed bracteas below each 

 flower, and to each division of the peduncle. Calyx deep- 

 ly 4-cleft ; lobes acu'e, internally 3-nerved, persistent. 

 Petals 4, lanceolate, shorter than the calyx, internally 

 hairy, caducous. Stamens 8, inserted at the junction of 

 the filaments with the anthers: filaments cnpillary, Iree, 

 erect: anthers lanceolate, b.locular ; with the locules of 

 a cellular texture. Ovary conical, 4-ovuled ; style subu- 

 late, bifid : stigmata simple. Fruit ovato-oblong, thick, 

 fleshy, toward the lower extremity crowned with the re- 

 flected lobes of the calyx, pierced at the apex tor the pas- 

 sage of the seed, whose base alone it contains: seed sin- 

 gle, very long, round, thickened toward the end, 



It is the remarkable character of this tribe of plants 

 that the seeds germinate while they are still attached to the 

 branch that bears the fruit. The radicle and club-shaped 



