FLORA OF THE SUNDRlBUNS. 
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Forests near the coast, and on banks of large rivers, 
Vernac. Khamo ; Bhdra; Bara Goran, 
A tree 25-35 feet high ; wood red, hard, splits on seasoning, used only for 
fuel ; fruit said to be edible ; bark used in tanning. 
Distrib. — Tropical shores of Eastern Hemisphere and Australia 
82. Rliizophora coiijuo’ata Linn. ; F. B. I. ii. 436. 
Forests near and at the coast, Heinig & Gammie ! 
Vernac. Khamo ; Bhdra, 
A small tree or large shrub F. B. I.) ; properties unimportant {fide 
E. D.). 
Distrib.-— Tropical shores of Eastern Hemisphere^ 
Our economic knowledge of the species of Rhizophorecs is singularly incom- 
plete. The present species is excluded from Heinig’s list; Clarke correctly 
includes it as a Sundribun species. It should be noted in passing that Heinig 
& Gammie, as specimens named by the latter in Herb., Calcutta, show, took 
the species to be “ R. mucronata,’’ a circumstance that throws considerable 
doubt on the accuracy of the F. B. I. statement regarding the size of the tree, 
and on the justice of the E. D. conclusion as to its want of economic importance. 
Both these points, and the further question as to its abundance or otherwise in 
the Sundribuns, require investigation by local officers. 
03. Ceriops Arn. 
83. Ceriops Roxburghiana Am. ; F. B. I. ii. 436. E. D. c 972. 
General, especially in the western forests, Calcutta Garden 
Collectors \ T, Thomson \ Gamble \ HeinigX Prain \ Lace I 
Vernac. Gordn ; Guttia, 
A tree, 12-20 feet high ; wood brick-red, hard, used for house-posts and fire* 
wood ; makes excellent charcoal ; the bark affords a red dye and is used in 
tanning. 
DiSTRiB.—Tropical shores of the Eastern Hemisphere. 
Our economic knowledge of the species of Ceriops is as inadequate as is 
that of the species of Rhizophora. Both Heinig and Clarke include C. 
Candolleantti as well as C. Roxburghiana^ in their lists of Sundribun species; on 
what authority it is difficult to say, since no collector has hitherto sent specimens 
of C. Candolleana to Herb., Calcutta. Heinig, indeed, speaks of C, Candolleana 
as the more important and plentiful of the two ; his own specimens, however, as 
well as those of Gamble distributed under the name C. Candolleanaf prove on 
examination to be C, Roxburghiana, There is no obvious reasons why C. Candoh 
leana should not occur, and under the circumstances it deserves to be carefully 
looked for; it may be distinguished from the very common C. Roxburghiana by 
its more pointed calyx-segments and its glabrous petals with 3-4 capitate bristles 
at their emarginate tips. The calyx -lobes of C. Roxburghiana are blunter ; its 
concave petals, though glabrous below, are setose-ciliate towards the apex. 
64. Raiidelia W. & A. 
84. Kaiidelia Rlieedei W. & A.; F. B. I. ii. 437. E. D. k 21. 
General, i forests near coast and on banks of the larger rivers. 
