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other times on both sides, or not un frequently awanting. 

 Racemes terminal, solitary, longer the leaves : flowers 

 collected into a peduncled globular head, minute, sessile, 

 ye.'low. Calyx 5-fid} divisions small, erect, acute. Sta- 

 mens 5, of the same length as the calyx, alternating with 

 its divisions. Ovary compressed : style twice the length 

 of the calyx: stigma obtuse. Fruit orbiculate. scale-like, 

 closely imbricated, compressed, concave on one side, con- 

 vex and incano-tomentose on the other or outer side ; 

 margin expanded : seed lanceolate. 



This Tree has received the name of Zaragoza Man- 

 grove, from the Spaniards. It is common along all the 

 shores of the Islands and Continent of Tropical America. 



IV. Laguncularia. 



Calyx persistent, suhcampanulate, 5-partite ; 

 lobes obtuse. PeTals 5, minute, patulous, cadu- 

 cous. Stamens 10, in two rows, included. Style 

 subulate: stigma capitate. Nut margined, cori- 

 aceous, crowned with the calyx, valveless, one- 

 seeded : cotyledons convolute ) radicle very long. 



There is only one species hitherto referred to this genus. 

 — Name, derived from Laguncula a pitcher, the fiuit 

 having some resemblance in figure to a vessel ot that des- 

 cription. 



1. Laguncularia racemosa, White Mangrove. 



Mangle julifera, Sloane, II. 65. t. 187. f. 1. — Conocar- 

 pus, Browne, 159 — C. racemosa Jacq. A?ner. 80. t. 53. — 

 Swartz, Obs. 79.— Laguncularia, Gcertn. f. Carp. 209. 

 t. 217. 



IIAB. Common in marshy situations, near the sea- 

 side. 



F. L. October. 



A shrubby tree, about 12 feet in height, branching low 

 down in the stem: branches opposite, slightly compressed 

 towards the extremities, glabrous, coloured. Leaves op- 

 posite, shortly petiolate, elliptic, rounded at the apex, sub- 

 emarginate, entire, glabrous, greasy to the touch, obscure- 

 ly penninerved : petiole biglandulose near the leaf. 

 Raceme terminal, usually dividing near the base into 

 three branches ; the lateral branches opposite and simple ; 



