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CALYCIFLORJE 
petals. Style bilid at the apex. Fruit crowned 
with the calyx, indehiscent, i-seeded : seed small : 
embryo inverted, germinating, protruding lor 
some length from the seed. 
2V ame from K a « root, and <pcpu> to bear, from the 
branches throwing down roots very freely, which descend 
into the mud, so that every branch is supported by its own 
root, and the tree extends over a considerable space. 
1. Rhizophora Mangle. The Mangrove. 
Leaves obovato-oblong obtuse, peduncles 2-3 
flowered longer than the petiole, fruit subulato- 
clavate. — DC. 
Mangle pyri foliis, cum siliquis longis ficui indici affinis, 
Sloane, 11. 03 — Candela Americana foliis laurinis, Calesb. 
Car. II. 03. t. 03. — Rhizophora Mangle, Jacq. Amer. 
141. t. 89. 
H A B. Marshy grounds and Lagoons near the Sea- 
shore. 
F. L. Throughout the year. 
A tree 20-40 feet in height : branches 3 chotomous, 
terete, glabrous, ash coloured, shining. Leaves some- 
what truncated at the apex, subcoriaceous, smooth, shin- 
ing, with a somemhat greasy feel, dark green above, paler 
beneath, and marked with minute dark excavated dots : 
petiole compressed. Peduncles axillary, 2-4-5-flow'ered, 
with a pair of small ovate appressed bractese below each 
flower, and to each division of the peduncle. Calyx deep- 
ly 4-cleft ; lobes acute, internally 3-nerved, persistent. 
Petals 4, lanceolate, shorter than the calyx, internally 
hairy, caducous. Stamens 8, inserted at the junction of 
the filaments with the anthers: filaments capillary, free, 
erect : anthers lanceolate, bilocular ; with the locules of 
a cellular texture. Ovary conical, 4-ovuled ; style subu- 
late, bifid : stigmata simple. Fruit ovato-oblong, thick, 
fleshy, toward the lower extremity crowned with the re- 
flected lobes of the calyx, pierced at the apex lor the pas- 
sage of the seed, whose base alone it contains: seed sin- 
gle, very long, round, thickened toward the end, 
It is the remarkable character of this tribe of plants 
that the seeds germinate while they are still attached to the 
branch that bears the fruit. The radicle and club-shaped 
