102 
ltthrace^. 
[ Psiloxylon . 
oblong or obovate-oblong, obtuse or subacute, cuneate at the base, 3-6 
in. long, coriaceous, bright green above, paler below and minutely gland- 
dotted with fine laurel-like venation. Flowers 3-6 in the axils of the 
leaves or from the branch below them on short separate pedicels. Bud 
globose, in. thick. Pentagonal disk in. broad. Petals whitish, J 
in. broad and long. Stamens rather exceeding the petals. Berry \ in. 
deep, girt with the persistent calyx, and crowned with the persistent 3- 
lobed stigma. Psiloxylon, Thouars ; Tulasne, Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. iv. vol. 6, 
138. Fropiera mauritanica, Bouton ; Hook. fit. in Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 
2, tab. 1 . 
Mauritius, in dense woods. Bois Maigre. Bois sans icorce. Also Bourbon. 
6. SONNERATIA, L. fil. 
Calyx coriaceous ; tube campanulate ; teeth about 6, valvate, persist- 
ent. Petals the same number as the calyx-teeth, small, caducous, 
sometimes absent. Stamens very numerous, inserted in 2-3 rows at the 
throat of the calyx ; filaments filiform, curled up in the bud as in 
Myrtacece ; anthers small, reniform. Ovary almost entirely adhering to 
the calyx-tube ; cells 14-16 ; ovules many, on axillary placentas ; style 
long, filiform ; stigma capitate. Fruit broad-turbinate, with an umbili- 
cate apex, girt by the persistent calyx. — Shore shrubs with entire 
opposite leaves. Distrib. Tropics of the Old World. Species 2-3. 
1. S. acida, Linn, fil.; DC. Drod. iii. 231. A small pyramidal tree, 
12-20 feet high, with terete naked branchlets, Leaves short-petioled, 
oblong, obtuse, fleshy-coriaceous, penninerved, 3-4 in. long. Flowers 
about three together at the end of the branchlets ; bracts small, 
caducous. Calyx an inch long, the teeth much exceeding the tube. 
Filaments twice as long as the sepals and style still longer. Fruit with 
a flat top above an inch broad, splitting irregularly from the base. Wt. 
Ic. t. 340. 
Seychelles, in shore-marshes with mangroves, Horne 449! Australia to 
Mozambique. 
The Pomegranate, Punica Granatum, Linn., is commonly cultivated, and is in 
Dr. Balfour’s Rodriguez collection as an established plant. Grenadier. Grenade, 
Order XXXVIII. SAMYDACEiE. 
Flowers regular, hermaphrodite. Calyx-tube short ; teeth broad or 
narrow. Petals as many as the sepals, absent in Casearia. Stamens 
as many or twice as many as the sepals, in Casearia monadelphous and 
alternating with staminodia. Ovary 1-celled, superior or half-inferior ; 
placentas 3-5, parietal ; ovules few or many to each placenta ; stigmas 
separate. Fruit capsular or baccate, many-seeded ; albumen copious. 
— Shrubs or trees with alternate simple petioled often dotted or lineolate 
leaves ; inflorescence various ; flowers copious, minute. Distrib. 
Bound the world in the tropics. Species 150. 
