536 
INDIAN MEDICINAL PLANTS. 
Tie composition of American Storax deviates so insignificantly from 
Oriental Storax that they may be regarded as identical. The Agricultural 
Ledger. 1904 — No. 9 p. 120. 
N. 0. RHIZOPHORACEiE. 
487 . Rhizophora mueronata, Lamk. h . fb . i ., ii . 
435 . 
Syn. : — R. Mangle, Willd. Roxh. 389. 
Vern . : — Rhorar (B.) ; Upoo-punna, adair-pouna (Tel.) ; Rai 
(Uriya) ; Kamo, kimro (Sind.) Kandel, hariya (Bomb.;. 
Habitat : — Tidal shores, from the mouths of the Indus to 
Malacca and Ceylon. Bombay, Western Coast, Bandra (K. R„ K.; 
A small, evergreen tree, of muddy shores and tidal creeks of 
India, Ceylon, Burma and the Andaman Islands, sending down 
numerous aerial roots into the mud of the mangrove swamp. 
The lower part of the trunk dies early, and the tree is then 
supported by a number of branching aerial roots, standing, as 
it were, on stilts. Bark brown, fairly smooth, with vertical clefts. 
Sapwood light-red ; heartwood dark-red, extremely hard, splits 
and warps a little in seasoning (Gamble). Leaves elliptic 
mucrouate by the excurrent midrib, 3-7 by l^-4in., narrowed 
at base. Stipules large, deciduous, enclosing the buds. Petiole 
1-lfin. Cymes 3-5-fid, from the axils of the current year’s 
leaves. Peduncles 1-1 Ji n. ; “ longer than the petioles,” says 
Mr. Henslow, about 3-flowered ; pedicels short, thick. Flowers 
more or less drooping. Calyx-segments 4, irregular, narrowing 
upwards, ^in., oblong-lanceolate, keeled within, persistent and 
enlarged in fruit. Petals hairy within, shorter than the Calyx- 
limb, subconnivent, coriaceous, margins involute. Anthers 8. 
Fruit lj-2in. long, dark brown, embryo often attaining 30in. 
before falling from the tree. “ The seeds often germinate 
while yet on the tree and drop as young plants into the mud 
below- The roots also progress and form constantly fresh stems 
supported by the buttressed roots standing out of the mud. ” 
(Gamble). 
