parva, albida, crassiuscula, post anthesin delapsa, regularis, bis medio 

 incisa, tubo campanulato, calycem aequali vel breviore, extus fere glabro, 

 0.12-0.2 c.M. alto; lacjniis subconformibus aut labii superioris sub 

 duplo latiore, obtusiusculo-oblougis vel subquadratis, radialibus, patentibus, 

 extus densissime lucescente viilosis, intus velutino-tomentosis, 0.2-0.25 c.M. 

 longis, 0.15-0.2 c.M. latis. Stamina vix exserta corollae laciniis breviora, 

 0.15-0.2 c.M. longa, fila men to brevi, a nth er a minima, subrotunda, 

 0.07-0.12 c.M. diam. Ovarium conicum, omnino dense longo-sericeum, 

 dense resinoso-punctatum ; imperfecte biloculare, dissepimento spurio medio 

 non alato, ovulis utrimque binis, stylo filiforme elongato, fere omnino dense 

 brevi albido-villoso, resinoso-punctata, corollae tubo exserta, staminis ae- 

 quante, post anthesin excrescente, calyce longe exserto, 0.3-0^4 c,M. longo, 

 stigmate manifesto, aequali-bifido accrescente cito recurvo. F r u c t u s 

 rhomboideus, subcompressus, ante delapsum excrescens. R a d i c u 1 a fere 

 omnino villosa, intra pericarpium germinans. 



Remarks: Description after incomplete material in the Herb. Bog., 

 which originally came from Porto Rico and St. Croix, adding to it 

 particular quotations from the most important literature on the subject.- 

 The habits cf A. nitida jACQ. are very similar to those of A. marina 

 var. alba, especially with regard to the shape of the leaves. The flowers 

 are as small as in A. marina; for the rest, they are the link between 

 the two asiatic species. According to SCHiMPER, the fruit is supposed to 

 germinate on the tree, but keeps its pericarp for a long time. The 2d. fig. 

 of tab. 112 represented under A. tomeniosa J ACQ. in the Stirp. Amer, 

 shows a leaf very similar to those of A, officinalis L, but with a cordate 

 base; this does not occur with the kvicennias; JACQUIN himself does 

 not mention it in his description, j ACQU1N describes the leaves of A. 

 nitida JACQ. as „folia nitida"', and those of A tomentosa jACQ. as „foliis 

 subtus tomentosis". These peculiarities should be considered as nothing 

 more than specific differences. The two kinds described by JACQUIN 

 cannot be considered in my opinion anything else but two formes for 

 the same species, all the more as JACQ. apparently did not find any 

 difference in the fiowers. 



Statio: Praeter litora, aestuaria et salsos paludes.- F 1 o r. et fruct.: 

 Jan.-- Dec. (?). 



Dis.tr ib: Trop. America: Bermuda-Ins.; Florida; Mexico; (THOMS/ 

 MURRAY); Venezuela (SCHIMP.J; Caraib. Isl. (J ACQ.); Cuba (SCHAU.; GRI- 

 SEB.); Jamaica (ORISEB.); St. Martin (BOLDlNO); Antigua (GRISEB .); Guyaquil; 

 St. Thomae [WALP.]; Guadeloupe [SCHAU.];' Martinique fjACQ.; SCHAU.]; St. 

 Lucia; St. Vincent (GRISEB.); St. Croix (BOLD.); Antillen; Suriname (MlQ.; PUL- 

 LE) Curacao near Fit. Amsterdam (BOLD.); Guiana (SCHAU.); Trinidad 

 (GRISEB.); Brasilia (CHAM. ; SCHAU. ; GRISEB. ; THOMS./MURRAY .)-- Africa: 

 Guinea [Pobéguinj; Senegambia (SCHAU.); Niger; Grand Bassa; Cape 

 Palmas (HOOK.); Congo, Bananâ (Dup.); Senegal; Sierra Leone-Benin (HOOK); 

 Chama; Koto; Apam; Owar (Walp.). 



