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other times on both sides, or not unfrcquently awanting. 
Racemes terminal, solitary, longer the leaves : flowers 
collected into a peduncled globular head, minute, sessile, 
yellow. Calyx 5— lid ; divisions small, erect, acute. Sta- 
mens 5, of the same length as the calyx, alternating with 
its divisions. Ovary compressed : style twice the length 
of the calyx : stigma obtuse. Fruit orbiculate, scale-like, 
closely imbricated, compressed, concave on one side, con- 
vex and incano-tomentose on the other or outer side ; 
margin expanded : seed lanceolate. 
This Tree has received the name of Zaragoza Man- 
grove, from the Spaniards. It is common along all the 
shores of the Islands and Continent of Tropical America. 
IV. Laguncul aria. 
Calyx persistent, subcampanulate, 5-partite ; 
lobes obtuse. Petals 5, minute, patulous, cadu- 
cous. Stamens 10 , in two rows, included. Style 
subulate: stigma capitate. Nut margined, cori- 
aceous, crowned with the calyx, valveless, one- 
seeded : cotyledons convolute 5 radicle very long. 
There is only one species hitherto referred to this genus. 
— Name, derived from Laguncula a pitcher, the fruit 
having some resemblance in figure to a vessel oi that des- 
cription. 
1. Laguncularia racemosa, White Mangrove. 
Mangle julifera, Sloane, II. 60 . t. 187. f. 1 . — Conocar- 
pus, Browne, 159 — C. racemosa Jacq. Amer. 80. t. 53. — 
Swartz, Obs. 79. — Laguncularia, Gcertn. f. Carp. 209. 
t. 217. 
II A B. Common in marshy situations, near the sea- 
side. 
F. L. October. 
A shrubby tree, about 12 feet in height, branching low 
down in the stem: branches opposite, slightly compressed 
towards the extremities, glabrous, coloured. Leaves op- 
posite, shortly petioiate, elliptic, rounded at the apex, sub- 
emarginate, entire, glabrous, greasy to the touch, obscure- 
ly penninerved : petiole biglandulose near the leaf. 
Raceme terminal, usually dividing near the base into 
three branches ; the lateral branches opposite and supple ; 
