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p. 32. 4. De Caisne in Ann . sc. 7ial. (1835) IV. bot . p. 75. 
VVight Illustr. I. p. 209. 1 et Icon. tab. 238. — i?, macrorrhiza 
Griff. Fam. of Rhizoph. extr. Trans, of Med. and Phys. Soc. 
Cale. p. 8. 2. — B. Candela?daW ight et Arn. Prodr.l, p. 310. 
Wall. Cat. N°. 4878. — B. Candclaria De Cand. 1. c. 2. (ex 
parte!) — R. Mangle Linn., Lam., Willd. et pier. Auctt. ex 
parte! Bl. Enum. p. 91. 1. Roxb. Flor. Ind. II. p. 459. 1 (exci. 
Syn. Hort. Mal.!) — Mangium Candelarium Bumph. JIerb. 
Arrib. III. p. 108. tab. 71 — 72 (descriptio satis bona, figurae mi- 
nus rectae!) — Bangko Javanice et Macassarice; 3Iangi-Mangi 
ahkar s. Mangi-Mangi lakki-lakki Malaice; IFaeat Tehy Am- 
bo in i c e ; B ido - b i do Ternatice; Bhora accolarum Gangetis;. Upoo - 
poma Telingice. — Truncus frutescens v. saepius arborescens, radici- 
bus compluribus epigaeis fulcratus. Folia magnitudine et textura secun- 
dum stirpis habitationem quam maxime variabilia, 3 — 1 poli , 1 1 — 4 poli, 
lata., plerumque ovalia v. elliptica, rarissime oblonga-, apice acuta v. sae- 
pius obtusiuscula nervoque longe exserto tortili: deciduo mucronata, basi 
subacuta v. in petiolum 1J- poli, longum angustata, nunc pergamena 
venisque transversalibus striolata , nunc carnosula , firma ac plane avenia , 
supra obscure viridia, lucida, subtus flavido viridia punctisque crebris fu- 
scis conspersa; nervo medio supra impresso , subtus maxime protuberante. 
Pedunculi axillares v. paulo supraaxihares , solitarii, 11 poli, et longio- 
res, nutantes , modo bifurcati s. dichotomi , interdum triflori. Pedicelli in 
ramulis saepe conjugati, breves, crassi, apice in bracteam cupularem bi- 
lobam calyci appressam- dilatati* Alabastra elongato-ovoidea , obtusiuscula. 
Calyx profunde 4-partitus coriaceus, firmus, viridis, glaber, basi ab- 
breviato-turbinata ovario adnata; laciniis oblongo-lanceolatis , acutis, ere- 
cto-conniventibus , intus concaviusculis et costa intermedia ad apicem ma- 
gis protuberante insignitis. Petala calycis laciniis breviora , lineari-lanceo- 
lata , subconniventia , crassiuscula , alba , margine involuta , intus apiceque 
externe lanata. Stamina 8 , aequalia , corolla paulisper breviora , 4 pe- 
talis circumdata , omnia erecto-conniventia , glabra ; filamenta brevissima , 
in connectivum dorsale continua ; antherae maximae , erectae , oblon- 
gae, mucrone brevi connectivi terminatae, subtrigonae, dorso crassiores,, 
convexae, intus magis rectae, lateraliter compressae, biloculares et sub 
epidermide per totam superficiem alveolatae, loculorum dehiscentia mar-' 
ginali intus ad basin valvularum persistentium appendice membranacea 
stipatae. Stylus brevis, ex apice conico ovarii attenuatus, stigmate In- 
dentato. Fructus 1 — 1 poli. , ovoideus , ad basin laciniis calycis re- 
flexis cinctus, inchoante germinatione vertice in umbonem seminis radi- 
cula perforatum protractus. ~ Cotyledones in molem carnosam subglobo- 
sam unitae, inferne in collum radiculae continuum contextu magis fun- 
gosum in fissura centrali gemmulam fovens coarctatae, ubi radicula ab 
apice cotyledonum magis incrassato tandem articulatione quasi secedit. 
Radicula mox ad 1.1 — 21- ped. longitudinem excrescens, clavato-subula- 
ta, rectiuscula, pendula, imprimis apicem versus verrucosa. Gemmula, 
sessilis, subulata, phyllis convolutis. — In insulis Mascarenis, Mada- 
gascar, in Arabia felici prope Yemen , ad ostia Gangetis nec non in pa- 
ludibus maritimis fere totius Indiae orientalis usque ad insulas Philippinas. 
et Novam Guineam observata. 
