The genus Xylocarpus (Family: Meliaceace) is
represented by five species, namely X.australisicus
Raidley, X. granatum Koening, X. molucccnsis Lamk.
Roem, X. gangeticus Parkison and X. parvifolius,
and they are distributed in the tropical mangrove
forests (Saenger ct al. 1993). The two species
X. granatum and X. molucccnsis are found also in
the Sundarbans, Khulna (Chaffey and Sandom
1985) and Chakaria Sundarbans of Chittagong
(Brandis 1906, Troup 1921).