MANGLE. 
Natural Order , Rhizophore^e, (R. Brown.) Linnxan 
Classification , Dodecandria, Monogynia. 
RHIZOPHORA.t (Linn.) 
Tube of the calyx obovate, coherent with the ovary, the border 
divided into 4 oblong, persistent segments. Petals 4 , oblong, 
emarginate, coriaceous, conduplicate, before expansion em- 
bracing the alternate stamens, the margins each with a double 
row of long woolly hairs. Stamens twice as many as the 
petals; anthers nearly sessile, large, linear-oblong. Ovary 
2-celled, with 2 ovules in each cell. Style conical, short, 2- 
furrowed; stigma 2-toothed or bifid. Fruit ovate or ob- 
long, crowned near the base with the persistent segments of 
the calyx, longer than the tube, at length perforated at the 
apex by the radicle of the germinating embryo. 
Maritime trees of the tropics with entire opposite leaves, and 
axillary flowers. 
AMERICAN MANGLE, or MANGROVE. 
RHIZOPHORA Americana, foliis obovato-oblongis obtusis; 
pedunculis trichotomis petiolo longioribus , stylis subula- 
tis bijidis, fructibus subulato-clavatis obtusis. 
Rhizophora mangle . Jacquin, Amer., p. 141 . t. 89 . Brown, 
Jam. p. 211 . Decand. prod. vol. 3 . p. 32 . Nutt. Florid, pi. 
Sill. 5 . p. 295 . Tor. and Gray, vol, 1. p. 484 . (not of Linn.) 
t The name, from />/£*, a root w®, to bear , in allusion to the 
seed germinating before it falls from the branches. 
