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142 ; Wight Icon. t. 146 ; Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. II. 1031 ; Scheff. Myra. 
97 ; Benth. FI. Austral. IV. 277 ; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. FI. 137 ; 
Bedd. FI. Sylv. OXXXIX. Anal. pi. XIX. III. ; Clarke in Hook. f. 
FI. Br. Ind. III. 533; Trimen FI. Ceyl. III. 74; Cooke FI. Bomb. 
II. 88; Koord. & Val. Bijdr. V. 276; Pax in Engl. & Prantl 
Pflanzenfam. IV. i. 97, fig. 57 ; Schimp. Strandfl. 44, figs. 1, 2 ; 
Prain Beng. PI. 645. MU. fragrans, Koenig Ann. of Bot. I. 129, 
t. 3 ; Wall. Cat. 2326 ; Wight in Hook. Bot. Misc. III. 84, t. 21. 
MU. minus, A. DC. l.c. 142. MU. Malaspincea, DC. l.c. 143. MU. 
obovatum, Blume Bijdr. 693. MU. corniculatum, Blanco FI. Filip. 79 ; 
Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XLVI. II. 227 and For. FI. III. 114 ; 
Mez Monog. Myrs. 55, fig. 8. Bhizophora corniculata, Linn. Sp. PI. 
Ed. 3 (1764), 635. “ Pou-Kandel,” Bheede Hort. Mai. VI. 36. Mangium 
fruticosum corniculatum, Rumph. Herb. Amb. III. 117. 
Penang : Wallich 2326 ; Curtis 52, 513. Perak : King's Collector 
4961. Malacca : Maingay (K.D.) 1017 ; Griffith (K.D.) 3538. Singa- 
pore: Ridley 2801a, 3632a. — Distrib. Sea-coast of India from Sind to 
Ceylon, the Sundarbans, Burma, and the Andaman Islands ; eastwards 
to the Malay Islands, South China, the Philippines and Australia. 
One of the coast plants included under the general name of 
“ Mangroves.” 
Order LXXI. SAPOTACE^l. 
Trees or shrubs, with milky juice, generally evergreen, young parts 
often rusty-tomentose. Leaves alternate, rarely sub-opposite, coriaceous 
or rarely membranous, entire, penniveined ; stipules none or very 
caducous. Flowers usually hermaphrodite, small or medium-sized, 
solitary or fascicled in the axils of the leaves, sometimes ( Sarcosperma ) 
paniculate ; bracts and bracteoles very small or wanting. Calyx 
inferior, persistent or deciduous ; lobes 4 to 8, much imbricate, 
occasionally biseriate with the outer ones valvate. Corolla gamo- 
petalous ; tube short, campanulate or urceolate ; lobes as many as, 
or 2 to 4 times as many as, those of the calyx. Stamens inserted 
on the corolla-tube in 1 to 2 series and opposite to them, sometimes 
alternating with staminodes ; filaments short, erect ; anthers ovate- 
lanceolate or linear-sagittate, 2-celled, the connective sometimes pro- 
duced. Disk hypogynous, often inconspicuous or wanting. Ovary 
superior, sessile, often villous, 2-5- or more celled ; style shortly conical 
or elongate-subulate, glabrous ; stigma terminal, punctiform ; ovules 
solitary in the cells, attached to the inner angle, bruit an indehiscent, 
1-8-seeded berry, pericarp usually fleshy. Seeds, if solitary, conform to 
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