LAGUNCULARlAjt 
(Gartner.) 
Natural Order , Combretace^e. Linnxan Classification , 
Decandria, Monogynia. 
Calyx border persisting, subcampanulate, 5-lobed. Petals 5, 
minute, spreading and caducous. Stamens 5 or 10, in two 
series, included. Style subulate, stigma capitate. Nut mar- 
gined, coriaceous, valveless, 1 or 2-seeded, crowned with the 
calyx. Cotyledones convolute; the radicle very long. 
A tree of the Caribbee islands with opposite, elliptic, smooth 
leaves. Racemes opposite, many-flowered, the flowers sessile, 
furnished with deciduous bractes; the calyx bibracteolate at the 
summit. The seed germinating within the nut. A genus nearly 
allied to Lumnitzera of India. 
WHITE MANGROVE. 
LAGUNCULARIA racemosa, Gsertner , fil. Carpol., vol. 3. 
p. 209. t. 217. Decand. Prodr., vol. 3. p. 17. 
Conocarpus racemosa, foliis lanceolato-ovatis obtusiusculis , 
fructibus segregatis . Linn. Sp. pi. Wield., vol. 2. p. 995. 
Swartz, Obs. p. 79. Jacq. Amer. p. 80. t. 53. 
Conocarpus , foliis elliptico-ovatis , petiolis biglandulosis , ra- 
cemis laxis , fructibus sejunctis. Browne, Jam, p. 159. 
Mangle julifera , foliis ellipticis ex adverso nascentibus . 
Sloane, Jam. p. 156. Hist. vol. 2. p. 66. tab. 187. f. 1. Raii, 
Dendr. p. 115. 
Sphenocarpus. Richard , Anal. Fr. p. 92. 
Schousboa commutata. Sprengel, Syst. Veget., vol. 2. p. 332. 
This plant is a native of the sandy and muddy shores 
f From laguncula , a little bottle, in allusion to the form of 
the nut. 
