Avicennia.] evil, verbenace^e. 641 
petioles *25 to 75 in. long. Flowers sessile in small crowded heads 
on thick angled peduncles. Bracts thick concave. Calyx -i to 
•3 in. long; lobes ovate-orbicular. Corolla ochre-yellow, tube 
short cylindric. Stamens exsert. Fruit 1-5 in. long, ovoid com¬ 
pressed beaked, grey-tomentose. Hab. Common in mangrove 
swamps. The wood not being valued for firewood, mangrove 
swamps near towns, as in Singapore and Province Wellesley, oppo¬ 
site Penang, consist almost entirely of this tree, the more valuable 
Rhizophoras having been cut out for firewood. Singapore, River 
Valley Road; Galang. Johor. Malacca (Griffith). Selangor, 
Port Swettenliam (Burkill). Province Wellesley. Penang. Dis- 
Irib. India, Burma, Malaya to Polynesia. Native name : Api-Api. 
(2) A. lanata Ridl, 
Small tree. Leaves obovate, blunt closely yellow-tomentose 
beneath, smooth above, 3 in. long, 1-25 in. wide; petioles wrinkled, 
•5 in. long, yellow-tomentose. Flowers in eymose heads in threes 
on a peduncle -5 to 75 in. long or more, tomentose yellowish. 
Bracts densely tomentose. Calyx-lobes tomentose outside. Corolla 
densely hairy outside, glabrous within, lobes reflexed, fragrant. 
Fruit ovoid, about -5 in. long, not beaked woolly. Hab. Singapore, 
River Valley Road (Burkill and Watson). 
(3) A. alba Bl. Bijdr. 821; Gamble, l.e. 868. A. resinifera 
Griff. Notulce, iv. 186. 
Shrub or treelet. Leaves coriaceous lanceolate or acuminate, 
base narrowed, white beneath, 2 to 5 in. long, 75 to 2 in. wide; 
petioles -25 to 75 in. long. Flowers sessile in short spikes in short 
2 in. long panicles. Bracts small, concave orbicular. Calyx-lobes 
•1 in. long. Corolla-tube very short. Stamens included. Capsule 
•5 to 1 in, long, lanceolate beaked, grey-tomentose. Hab. Less 
common than A. officinalis in mangroves and tidal rivers, Singa¬ 
pore, Chan Chu Kang; Toas. Johor, Pinerong. Pahang, Sungei 
Meyang. Malacca, Tanjong Kling. Selangor, Tanjong Bakau 
(Burkill); Jugra (Foxworthy). Province Wellesley. Bindings, 
Pangkor (Scortechini). Distrib . Indo-Malaya. Native names: 
Api-Api hitam; Api Putih. 
(4) A. intermedia Griff. NotulcB, iv. 189. 
Shrub 4 to 5 ft. tall. Leaves obovate to lanceolate, blunt or 
sub-acute beneath whitish, minutely puberulous, reticulations not 
very prominent, 3 in. long, 1 in. wide; petioles -25 in. long. 
Peduncles 1 to 3, puberulous, -5 in. long or less. Flowers crowded 
in heads -25 in. through. Sepals ciliate. Corolla, upper lobes 
usually entire. Fruit small, compressed apiculate, glaucous, 
wrinkled, cordate-ovate. Hab. Mangrove swamps, Malacca, Pulau 
Jawa (Griffith); Selangor, Klang (Watson). Dindings, Pangkor 
(Scortechini). 
Griffith suggests that this is a hybrid between officinalis and alba, which 
it certainly looks like, 
Fl.M.P., a. 
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