Tab. 7337. 

 BARRINGTONIA samoensis. 



Native of Polynesia. 



Nat. Ord. Myrtace.e. — Tribe Lecythideje. 

 GeiiTis Barringtonia, Forst. ; {Benih. & Sook.f. Gen. Plant, vol. i. p. 720.) 



Barringtonia (Butonica) samoensis : arbor, foliis subverticillatis breviter 

 petiolatis oblanceolatia acuminatis remote denticulatis flaccidis, racemo 

 terminali pendulo, floribus amplia (staminibus inclusis 3 poll, diam.) 

 breviter crasae pedunculatis roseis, calycis tubo turbinate obscure 4-gono, 

 lobis rotundatis ciliolatis, petalis fere 1 poll, longis ovato-oblongis reflexia 

 marginibus recurvis, staminibua numeroaissimia lj-poll. longis, fructu 

 ovoideo tetragono. 



B. samoensis, A. Gray, in Bot. TJn. St. Expl. Exped. p. 508. Walp. Ann. Bot. 

 vol. iv. p. 852. 



B. 'ixcelsa, A. Gray I. c. (non Bhirne). 



B. racemosa, Gaud, in Freyc. Voy. Bot. p. 483, t. 107, excl. syn. ; {non Blume). 



B. acntangula, Blume Bijdr. p. 1097 {non Roxb.). 



B. insignia, Miq. Fl. Ned. Ind. vol. i. p. 488. 



Stravadium inaigne, Blume in Van Houtte Fl. des Serres, vol. vii. p. 24, 



t. 654, 655. 

 Butonica samoensis, Miers in Trans. Linn. Soc. Ser. ii. Bot. vol. i. p. 75. t. 



xiv. fig. 20-25. 



According to Miers B. samoensis has been found only in 

 the New Hebrides, Navigator's, and the Ladrone or 

 Marianne group of Islands, growing as a tall, handsome 

 tree, overlooking the habitat of Java given by Mi quel. 



Miers remarks upon Van Houtte's figure in the " Flora 

 des Serres," that " it does not seem to have been made 

 from any cultivated specimen, as he would lead us to sup- 

 pose ; its originality may indeed be doubted, after what I 

 have shown in regard to his drawing tab. 409 under B. 

 speciosa. From the resemblance of the former in the form 

 and size of the leaf and the size of the flowers, we may 

 infer that it is a made-up drawing with its details borrowed 

 from Gaudichaud." 



B. samoensis was received from M. Louis Van Houtte, 

 of Ghent, in 1891, and flowered in a stove of the Royal 



February 1st, 1894. 



