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Barnngioma.'] Lix. MTRTACEiE (barringtoniej: by C. B. Clarke.) 5017 



duous. Calyx-tube scarcely produced atove the ovary ; lobes 2-4 valvate, or 

 3-6 imbricate. Petals 4, rarely 5, much imbricate, somewhat adnate at the 

 base to the staminal tube. Stamens very many, in several series, connate shortly 

 mto a tube at the base ; filaments filiform, lonof, all bearing anthers. Ovary 

 inferior, 2-4-celled, crowned with an annular disc ; style long, simple, stigma 

 small ; ovules 2-8 in each cell, pendulous. Fruit fibrous or somewEat berried, 

 globose ellipsoid or quadrangidar, crowned with the calyx, by abortion 1-seeded, 

 Seed ovoid or ellipsoid, without albxunen ; embryo large, exhibiting two lavers, 

 cotyledons nearly obsolete. — Disteib. Species 20 ; in tropical Asia^ Africa, 

 Australia and Polynesia, often near the sea. 



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Sutonica, Juss. (gen.). Calyx valvate, 2-3- (rarely 4-) lobed, 

 (Barringtonia, Agasta and BrTONicA of Miers). 



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1. B. speclosa, Forst. Char. Gen. PL 76, t. 38 ; leaves large obovate, 

 petals 2-2^ in. Linn. f. Suppl 312 ; DC Prodr. iii. 288 ; Roxb. FL Lid. ii, 

 636 ; Wall. Cat. 3632, excl. B. ; Plume Pijd, 1096 ] W. ^ A. Prodr. 333 ; 

 Wight le. t. 547 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 485 ; Miers in Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 ser. ii. Pot. I 56, t. 10 ; Kurz For. Fl. i. 496. B. asiatica, Kurz in Jmrn. As. 

 Sac. 1877, pt. ii, 70. B. ? macrophylla, Miq. I. c. 491. Mammea asiatica, 

 Linn. Sp. Pi, 731, Agasta splendida, asiatica and indica, Miers L c. pp. 60-64^ 

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. aJeylon", Thwaites (Southern Deccan Peninsttla probably not wild ex BeddoTJie); 

 Andamans, Kurz; Singapore, T. Anderson; on sea-coasts. — Disteib. The shores of 

 :::".%^^yaV Australia and Polynesia. 



~ . Tree 30-50 ft., glabrous. Leaves often 15 by 7 in., obtuse, narrowed at the base, 

 quite entire, sessile. Raceme short, erect ; lower pedicels with a leaf-like bract, 

 ^Pper bracts much smaller. Calyx closed over the bud; lobes 2, 1^ in., oblong. 

 rctaU white. Ovary 4-celled ; ovules about 6 in each cell. Style often exceeding 

 4 m. Fruit 3 by 3 in., quadrangxilar or nearly ovoid, by abortion 1-seeded.— Mr. 

 ■liliurs founds a second genus on a drawing of Forster which represents the fruit as 4- 

 celled. But the drawing appears to be taken from the fruit of ^. speciosa, the very 

 • anomalous embryo having misled Forster to sketch in faintly four septa. 



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Leaves crenate-denticulate. 



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racemosa, Blume ; DC. Prodr. iii. 288 ; racemes pendulous pedi 

 , calyx-tube in the bud broadly funnel-shaped segments 2-3, fruit ovoid 



^xoxo. ri. Ind. ii. 634 ; Wall. Cat. 3634 ; W. 8f A. Pi-odr. 333 ; Wight Ic. t 



1^^, including fruit ; Bot. Mag. t. 3831 ; Dah. <§• Oibs. Bovib. Fl. 94 ; Kur. 



*J>r Fl. i. 496. B. speciosa, Wall. Cat. 3632 B. B. alba and rubra, Miq. Fl 



^li'^- Bat. i. pt. i. 487. Ei^nia 



an ■"■ *• i"" ■"• ^^- -cjugenia racemosa 

 ^'>um and rubnun. DC. Prodr. iii. 289. Bi 



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66, t. 13, fig. 1-17. B. rubra and inclyta, 



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Andamans: Kurz. — Dist&ib. 



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r )i 1 ®^^^Breen tree attaining 50 ft., glabrous. Leaves 10 by 3 in., cuneate-oblong, 

 igntly crenate-denticulate ; petiole i-^ in. Racemes 12-18 in., pendulous, flowen 

 ^f ant, pedicels J-^ in. CalyxAobes I in., ovate. 

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