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XLIX. EHIZOPHORAOB.E 



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1. B. gymnorhiza, Lam.-— Syn. B. Rheedli, Wight Ic. t. 239 : Bedd. Man. 

 t. xiv. Yern. Kankra^ Sundrib. 



A tree, attaining 80 ft., 1. thickly coriaceous, skinioi?, elliptic-lanceolate, not 

 mucronate, pale beneath, blade 4-7, petiole 1-1 j in, long. FL solitary, axillary, 

 deflexed, pedicel J in. long. Oalyx-lobes 10--14, linear, very acute, erect, ^-| in. 

 long, petals deeply bifid, glabrous except at the hairy base, ovary B-celled, 

 style long. Fr. crowned by the slightly enlarged calyx-segments, which are 

 as long as fruit. 



Tidal mai'blies of tlie Western Peninsula, Bengal, the Andamans and Burma. FL 

 Apr.-Oct. — Bark Ubecl m tanning. Africa to Australia and the islands of the Pacific. 

 2. B. eriopetala, Wiglit & Arn ; Wight Ic. t. 239 B. Malabar and Travancore, Malay 

 Peninsula and Archipelago. Cochinchina. Calyx-lobes 10, 1 in. long, exceeding the 

 ribbed fr. Petals densely hirsute along the edges, from base to apex with silyery 

 hairs. 



B. FL small, peduncles 3- or niore-fld. 



3. B. caryopliylloides, Blume (including B. mahfharlra, Arnott) Quilon. Ceylon. 

 Tenas&arim. Malay Peninsula and Archipalago. Laayes thinly coriaceous. Cymes 

 axillary, pedunculate, 2-3-M., calyx-lobes J in. long, refiexed in fr. and about half itb 

 length, i)etals with scanty hairs outside. 4. B. parviflora, "W. & A. Tidal forests of the 

 Andamans and Tenasserim. Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. Cymes axillary, erect, 

 pedunculate, 2-5-fld , calj^x-tube cj^lindric, |, teeth ^^ in. long. Oyary 3-celled, fruit 

 cylindric, ribbed, 1 in., radicle 4-5 in. long before fallmg. 



5. CARALLIA, Eoxb. ; FL Brit. Ind. ii. 439. 



Trees and shrubs, not litoraL FL small, sessile, in short trichotomous 

 axillary cymes. Calyx produced into a short tube beyond the ovary, teeth 5-8, 

 petals inserted with the stamens on the edge of a crenulated disk lining the 

 calyx-tube, unguiculate, blade deeply serrate and lobed. Ovary inferior, 

 usually 4-celled', ovules 2 in each cell. Fruit small, globose, coriaceous, seed 1 , 

 testa fibrous, embryo curved in copious albumen. Species 7, from Madagascar 

 to Australia. 



1. C. lucida, 

 Roxb. Cor. PL t. 

 211 ; Kurz F. FL 

 i. 451 ; King in 

 Journ. As. Soc. 

 Beng. 6G, 318. — 

 Syn. C. inteyer- 

 rima^ DC. ; FL 

 Brit. Ind. ii. 439 ; 

 Bedd. FL Bylv. 

 t. 193. ; C cey- 

 lanica^ Wight 

 IlL t. 90. Vern. 

 Bhengali^ Panasi^ 

 Mai\ ; Andanni- 

 Tia^ Kan. ; Karal- 

 Ze^TeL; Varan ga^ 

 Mai. ; Maniawga^ 

 Lower, Aivga, 

 Upper Burma. 



A large tree, 

 trunk erect, wood 

 reddish - brown, 

 medulL rays very 

 broad. Leaves 

 thickly coriace- 



Fig. 132.— Oarallia lucida, Eoxb. 4- 



