1897.] G, 'King— Matenah for a Flora of the Malayan Peinnsida. 311 
in each cell, pendulous, FtuU 4-fuiTOwed, oi* separating into 4 or 2 
carpels. DraruiR, Species J5; cosmopolitan, 
MvRionivixuM iNTERjiKDiUM, DC Pi'odr. Ilf, G9. Leaves alternate, 
solitary or »ii fascicles of two or three, sornetiraes in wliorb, linear, 
entire or eemite, '5--1 in, loog. FmiTaxillnry^ oblong-, only about 05 
ill. long, with rounded and minutely scabrona ridges and sliallow 
fnrrowB between, ultimately separatmg into its component carpels. 
Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. Vol, I, pt. I, 634; Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. 
II, 433. M. indicnm, ^Tiglit 111. t. 102, (exdnde the frtiit). ^f. van'^u^ 
folittnu Hook, Ic. PL t 289. M, Uneitre^ Heyne MSS. Ealoragis oilman' 
tha, W. & A. Prodr. S38 ; Wight Ic. t. 1061 (not of Am.) 
Malacca; On'Jith (probably on Moant Ophir). Distrib, Moud- 
lains of the Malayan Archipelago and of the South of Bntish India ; 
Auatnilia, New Zealiuid, South America. 
Order XLIV. RHIZOPHORE^. 
Treea or shrubs. Leaves opposite and stipulate (alternate and 
esatipulate in Auisophi/llea), ustiuliy coi-iaceons, glabrous; stipuleia 
interpetiolftr, very caducous. Floivms nxillury, usually bisexual (uni- 
Bexual in Anisophyllea)^ surrounded at the base by connate or cupuli- 
form bracts, or ebracteate. Calyx more or less adnate to the ovary j 
limb produced beyond the ovnry, 4-14-1 obed ; lobes valvate, persistent. 
J'etah equal in number to but usually smaller than the sepals, entire, 
emargiuate, 2- fid or lacerate, Siamem usually twice the number of the 
petals, in pairs, opposite to and partly embraced by tliem ; rarely in^e- 
finiie {Ktindelia} ; anthers 2-celIed, rnrely niulti-loculaJe (Rhizophora). 
Ovary more or less adnate to the calyx, from 5-1-ceIled by solution of 
the septa ; styles connate (distinct in Anuophyllea) \ stigma often lobed ; 
orules usual ly 2 in each cell, penduloos. Fruit coriaceous or woody, 
crowned or surrounded by the calyx-limb, mostly indehiacent, 1-celled, 
l-seeded. Seed pendulous, arillate or not j albumen fleshy or 0; embryo 
inverted, small if surrounded bj albumen, elongated if exalbuniinous ; 
radicie macropodons in the tribe Uhiz&phorem^ perforating the apex of 
the pericarp and germinating while the fruit still adheres to the tree,— 
BiaTRiB. Tropical plants ; many sharing with an arboj^al vegetation the 
muddy shores of tbe estuaries of rivers. Genera J 7, species about 70, 
LeuToa opposite, stipulate ; style connate : — 
TiiiBR L EiiizoPHOBEii;. Enibi'yo ©xidStuminona, with % large 
radicile gerniinatiiig while tl:ie fruit Ja still on the tree :^ — 
Calyx 4-lobe(l ; petals 4, entire ; BtametiB B ; ovary 2* 
celled "V ■•■ 1- Rhizophora. 
Calyx 8-l44obpd ; petals 8-14, 2-lobed op deeply emar- 
giuate j orary S-i-celled ; stamene 16-28 ... ... 2. Blil'flUiKBA, 
