10 G. King— Materials fcr a Flora of the Malayan Peninsnla. [Ko. 1, 
DuAUAKQA SONNERATIOIDES, Ham. in Tnins. Lion, Soc. XVII, 178. 
A tree 60-100 feet liig^h. Leaves thinly coriaceous, oblong to ovate- 
oblong, 7-12 in. long and 2'5-4 I'n. broad, glabrous, glaucous beneath, 
Flowers 2-2*5 in. across, on thick-jointed pedicels tapering to the base ; 
panicle short, few*flowered, drooping, Fetah 4—7, tibout 1 in. lou^. 
Capsule ovo?d-globof50, 1-1-5 in. in diam. Hook, fil, 111. Him. PI. t. 11 ; 
Kura For. Floi'. Bumi. I, 525 j Clarke in Hook. fil. Fior. Br. lad. 11, 579. 
J), pajidiflora, Wiilp, Rep* H, 114. Lagerdrmmia grandiffom^ Roxb, 
Hnrt. Beag. 38 ; Flor. Ind. II, 503; DC, Pmdr. UI, 93;' Wall. Cat* 
2U1 ; Blnme Mus. Bot. I, 1U9. Leplosapartion grandijlortimy Griff, lo, 
PI. AsiaL t. 591. 
Perak j SeortecJiinif King's Collector 5912, Andauans and ITicobaiis, 
Kmg'^ Colkctors. DiSTitiB, Burma, Assam, Kliaeia, Eastern Himalaya. 
6. SoHNERATiA, Linn, £. 
Ever-green trees, growing neai' the sea, glabrous. Leaves opposite, 
petioled, coriaceous, entire. Floivers without braclSf largo, tlireo to- 
gether at tbe suminita of the brandies, or axillary and solitary. Gahj.v 
thick, coriaceotia ; lobes 4-8, lanceolate, valvate. Fetals Of or as many 
as the calyx-lobea and linear-oblong, Sfaumis unmerons, inserted in a 
c)!ctilar band on the calyx- tube, Ovar^ nearly free, or adnatc at the 
base to the calyx-tube, many-celled ; style longj stigma capitate; oviiloa 
numerouB, ascending, placentiis axile. Berry subglobose, supported by 
tl)o persistent calyx, 10-1 S-celled. Seed* very many, sinall, curved, 
angular, embedded in pulp ; cotyledons convolute. Disr.iiii. Species 
4)^5 ; on the tropical sea-shores of the Eastei-n hemisphere. 
With pdtuls ... ... ... ... ... 1, S. acidd. 
VVitliout petals 
Calyx in bud ovoid, obtuse ... ... ... ... 1. acida, 
Tar. Grifithii. 
Calyx in bud narrowly ellipsoid, taperUig^ to both ends ... 2. B. alba. 
1. SoN>!EBATiA ACiDA, Liiiu. 151. Suppl. 252. A small tree 10-35 
feet high, the branchlcts jointed and 4-ang1ed. Leaves oblong to oblong- 
obovate or obovate, tnpering into a broad short petiole, blunt and 
sometimes reins© ; length 2-3 in., breadth 1-35 to 2 in. in the obovate 
forma. Fhw&r-huds solitary, ellipsoid, the oatyx-tu I)© not angled; the 
calyx Tvhen fully developed 1 in. long, its lobes 6-8, tThe lobes t*'iangular, 
refiesed^ Petals linear, slightly broader towards the apex than at the 
base. Style exserted, sometimes 3 in. long, stigma capitate. Capsule 
depressed-globose, sometimes as much as 2 in, in diam,, the apex aome- 
what concave, the walla thick. Iloxb. Hort. Beng. 38 ; Flor. Ind, II, 
506; Roth Nov, Sp, 233 j DC. Prodr. Ill, 231; Wall. Cat. 3641; 
