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WHITE MANGROVE. 
of the Caribbean islands and the neighbouring continent, 
where it becomes a lofty branching tree, sometimes 
dividing into three or four trunks close to the ground: 
it is called White Mangrove by the English inhabitants 
of these islands. Dr. Blodgett has sent specimens of 
this tree also from Key West, in East Florida. 
The branches are cylindric and brownish, the twigs 
ferruginous; the leaves are opposite and smooth, about 
three inches long and an inch and a half wide, upon 
short petioles, quite entire, thick, and somewhat coria- 
ceous, elliptic or ovate, obtuse, and sometimes emargi- 
nate, with a pair of glands near the summit of the 
petiole, and, in most of the leaves, towards the edge 
appear a number of raised glandular points, which are 
closed or open. The flowers are disposed in axillary 
and terminal elongated racemes, the racemes sometimes 
trifid. Flowers small, sessile, greenish-white; the germ 
pyriform, and, as well as the short border of the calyx, 
covered with a short whitish, silky pubescence. Petals 
5, very small and caducous. Stamens 5, not exserted. 
The germ at its summit with 2 small dentiform brac- 
teoles, the bractes themselves short, broad ovate and 
caducous. Style, at length somewhat exserted, with a 
small capitate stigma. Nut 1-seeded. 
Plate XXXIV. 
A branch of the natural size. a. The nut in an early stage. 
