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An evergreen glalrous tree 30-40 ft. Leaves 12 by 3^ in., much narrowed al 

 either end, minutely ere nul ate -dentate ; petiole longer than in the other species and 

 dilated at the base. Spike with thickened rachis, glabrous or scarcely puberulous; 

 Tiracts subulate, small, caducous. Calyx total length f-1 in., tube quadrangular, not 

 winged in the bud. Petals high red, filaments white. Fruit 2i by 1^ in., ellipsoid, 



r illy tapering to each end, roundish but with 4 distinct ribs. — Kurz has reduced 

 the synonyms above except Carey a pendula of Griffith, of which he appears to 

 have possessed no example and which he supposed to differ by having the nowew 

 pedicelled. But in Griffith's Careya pendula the flowers are sessile or subsessile, and 

 It does not appear to differ in any way from Barringtoiiia macrostachya. 



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10. B. rigrlda, C. B. Qarke] leaves long-petioled lanceolate, spikes 2-3 in. 

 riirid erect sub-tomentose. Doxomma ri^dum, Mters in Trans. Linn» Soc. ser. 

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Leaves 12 by 3^ in., glabrous, acute at each end, entire or very nearly so ; petiole 

 l\ in., not dilated at the base. Spikes from axils not close to the end of the branches, 

 rusty brown. Fruits J by ^ in., sessile, approximated, erect, with 4 obtuse angles, 

 nearly equally wide their whole length, subtruncate at apex and base, fibrous. Tms 

 fipecies is quite unlike all others of the section : the fruits are more like those of sect 

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Trees or very small shrul)S. Leaves alternate, crowded towards the ^^^^^ 

 the branches, membranous, slightly crenate-serrate, pinnate-nerved, not dotted, 

 narrowed at the l)ase, sessile or petioled. Flowers lar^e, in racemes or v^ 

 terrupted spikes. Calyx-tube campanulate or funnel-shaped, hardly produced 

 above the ovary ; lobes 4, ovate, imoricate. Petals 4, imbricate. Stamens very 

 many, in several series, slightly connate at the base ; filaments filiform, ^'^^^' 

 most and outermost without anthers. Ovary inferior, 4-5-celled, crowned by 

 an annular disc ; style long, simple, stigma small ; ovules very many on axiie 

 vertical placentas, in two rows in each cell. Fruit large, globose, bvroi^f 

 crowned with the calyx ; dissepiment absorbed or obsciu-e. Seeds numerous, 

 lying in pulp, ellipsoid ; albumen ; embryo large, cotyledons obsolete.— i'ls- 

 TBIB. Species 3; confined to India. 



1. C. herbacea, lioxb. Cor. PL iii. 13, t. 217; FL Ind. ii. 638; a smaU 

 nndershrub, leaves cuneate-oblong or obovate serrulate. DC. Prodr.m- ^^ \ 

 Wall Cat, 3638 ; Wight Ic. t. 657 ; Brand, For. Fl. 237 ; Kurz Far, Fl. i. 4^^ ' 

 Miers in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. ii. Bot. i. 96. 



Terai of the Himalaya and Khasia Mts., alt 0-1000 ft. ; from KrMAON to ChiJ* 

 TAGONo; extending throughout dry jungles in the plain of Bengal ; not rare: esp ^ 

 ally in sun-grass Terai jungles annually burnt in the dry season. , reaves 



Eootstock woody, perennial; herbaceous leafy flowering shoots 6-8 in- 'T^g/ 

 7 by 2 J in., obtuse, long attenuate at the base, glabrous or obscurely P^^^f^jiin! 



lobes ovate, obtuse. Petals \-\\ in., greenish-purple," elliptic 

 globose, crowned by the persistent calyx and often by the 

 Griff, Notul. iv. 660 is a confus^ description only partly i 

 plant ; perhaps mixed in the editing, as Miers suggests. 



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