Descriptions of Malayan plants. No. II. / [William Jack].

  • William Jack
Date:
[1820]
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Credit: Descriptions of Malayan plants. No. II. / [William Jack]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    mitted for one of a different family not indigenous to the Malay Islands. On this account Loureiro’s name is to be preferred. RHIZOPHORA CARYOPHYLLOIDES. (IV. J.) Dodecandria Monogynia. Fruticosa, foliis ovatodanceolatis utrinque acutis, pedunculis axillaribus trifforis, rarius dichotome quin- i quefloris, fforibus 8-fidis, radicula subcylindrica aeu« tiuscula. Mangium Caryophylloides, Humph : Amb : III. p. 119 t. 78. Found at Singapore and Pulo Pinang. i This is a much smaller shrub than the common Mangrove, and does not divide its root3 so much. It is generally found in shallow sandy salt marshes, rising with a tolerably erect stem and branched nearqjr to the base than the common species. Leaves opposite, peti- olate, about four inches long, oval or ovate-lanceolate, acute at both ends, sometimes slightly inequilateral, very entire, very smooth, coriaceous ; the lower sur¬ face appearing under the lens dotted with minute white points. Petioles round, furrowed above, smooth. Stipules long, enveloping the corniculate buds in the manner of the Ficus, very deciduous. Pcdmcles axilla-