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Celebes: Saleyer [TEYSM. No. 137Ö6]; Kp. Wadjo [NOERKAS, exp. v. 

 VUUREN No. 58--12 Mrch 1912; RACHMAD, exp. V. VUUREN No. 357--30 

 July 1913]; 



N. Guinea: Andai [TEYSM. No 7459]; Kaiser Wilhelmsland [HELLWIG 

 No. 212--7 Jan. 1889]; 



Philippines: Mindanao [HUTCHINSON No. 3947-- Mrch 1916]; 



Brit-India: Singapore [RIDLEY- May 1892]; Amherst, Tenasserim 

 [FALCONER No. 2415]; Bengal, Sundribuns [PRAIN- 5 August. 1902]. 



Use: The wood is used everywhere by the people living on the 

 coast and sailors as fire-wood, for which reason the plant has been named 

 kpi-api. More seldom one finds the wood being mentioned as being used for 

 building purposes, especially for the interior of houses, or as in Borneo 

 (according to LABOHM) in the mines; according to KURZ, it has been 

 used in the Andaman Islands for rice-mills and rice-stampers. The fruit is 

 often eaten by the inhabitants of the coast, and this not only in times 

 when food is scarce, as it has been often claimed.-- According to fisher- 

 men of Tandjong-Priok, Batavia, the seeds are first well-cooked for this 

 purpose, then dried in the sun, and only after this operation are they eaten 

 in the state of pulp. The seeds of the var. alba (Bl.) BAKH. and also those, 

 of the A.officinalis L. seem to be the most suitable for that purpose, accor- 

 ding to native saying; those of the var. intermedia [GRIFF.] BAKH. are 

 considered inferior ; at any rate they have to remain a long time (one week) 

 submerged in water before being suitable for consumption. According to 

 LlNSCHOTEN [part. 4. Ind. Or. C. 29], ex BAUHIN, the unripe fruit is 

 preserved by the natives either in salt or vinegar. 



}' var. resinifera [FORST.] BAKH. [Tab. 16]. 



S y n. : Avicennia resinifera FORST. [1786]; A. eucalyptifolia ZlPP. 

 ex MlQ. et VAL., et A. officinalis L. var. eucalyptifolia [ZlPP.] VAL. [1907]; 

 A. mindanaense .ELM. [1915]; A. alba Bl. var. acuminatissima MERR. [1916].-- 



Folia elliptico-oblonga, 5-mulfoties longiora, utrinque attenuata 

 subtus viridi-canescentia, 7--16.5 c. M. longa, infra medium 1.5--3.5 

 c.M. lata; petiolo 1—1.5 c.M, longo. Panicula parva, foliata, non 

 vix ramosa, bract eol is subfoliaceis saepe involutis. Inflorescentia 

 partialis compacta, cephaloidea vel pyramidata, 0.5-1 .2 c.M. longa, 2-12 

 flora. Flores expansi médiocres, 0.5—0.7 c,M. longi, 0.5-0 7 c M. diam. 

 Corolla tubo 0.3 c.M. longo; 1 acini is 2.5-3 c.M. longis, 0 2-0.25 

 c.M. latis. Stamina filamentis 0.20-0.22 c.M. longis; antheris 0.10-0.12 

 c.M. diam P i s t i 1 1 u m corollae tubo aequale vel vix longius, conspicuum. 

 Ovarium brevi tomentosum; stylo brevi; stigmate post corollae 

 lapsum exserto. Fructus ovoideus.- Cetera varietate ß similia. 



Remarks. Description exclusively made after dried material. -This 

 variety approaches the var. alba [BL.] BAKH. because of the shape of the 

 leaves; but it differs from it especially in having the axillary and terminal 

 inflorescences consisting of capitules; the bracts are less developed, 

 generally curved, little leaves. [See also H.J. LAM. Verb. pl. Ill fig. l,p-t]. 

 The appearance of these curved bracts is indeed a characteristic of the 



