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much larger leaves, its flowers of greater size, on a longer raceme and on stouter 
pedicels, bracteated in the middle, larger calycine lobes, the presence of a large peculiar 
gland above the insertion of each leaf, and more especially by the different structure of 
its fruit and seeds. This last consideration places the two plants in distinet genera. 
Parkinson's exquisite coloured drawing gives an excellent representation of Solander's 
plant, but shows only the upper leaves, crowded on the summit of the branches as they 
appeared in nature ; but Solander's dried specimens show some of the lower leaves ; these 
аге 14-24 in. long, 83—12 in. broad, quite round at the apex, cuneated below into a 
broadish obsolete petiole, or expansion of the midrib. Solander states that an inch or 
less above the insertion of each leaf а reddish obtusely conical gland is observed on the 
branchlets. The rachis of the terminal raceme is stout; the pedicel of each flower, 6 in. 
long, 1 in. thick, bears in its middle а leaf-like sessile bract 21 in. long, 1 in. broad; the 
adnate portion of the calyx is $ in.long; the upper portion splits into two large concave 
lobes, with parallel nervures 11 in. long, 4 in. broad; the petals are 3} in. long, 1j in. 
broad ; the stamens, spreading in all directions, are agglutinated at the base into a mona- 
delphous tube 4 lines long, 8 lin. in diam., seated upon the outer margin of the disk, the 
slender filaments being 5 in. long; these, with the petals attached, soon fall off together ; 
the subulate persistent style is longer than them. Тһе fruit is 4 in. long, 2} in. broad 
below the middle, is crowned by the persistent calyx, disk, and style. Тһе thick peri- 
carp encloses a single seed, covered by a thin soft coriaceous testa, the nucleus, homo- 
geneous in texture, being white, oval, obsoletely 4-angled, the size of a pheasant's egg ; 
this is not edible, owing to its astringent flavour. In a note by the editor of * Cook's 
Voyages' (p. 157), it is stated that the plant is used by the natives of Otaheite to catch 
fish by intoxicating them. 
2. ÀGASTA ASIATICA, nob.: Mammea Asiatica, Linn. Sp. Pl. i. p. 501 (1753); Osb. 
Itin. (1752), Voy. China, Engl. edit. 2, p. 62 (1771): Stravadium macrophyllum, 
Bl. in Van Houtte, Fl. Serr. vii. p. 24: Barringtonia macrophylla, Miq. Flor. Ind. 
Ned. i. p. 491: Barringtonia speciosa, Linn. fil Suppl. p. 312 (1781); Gaud. 
in Freyc. Voy. p. 482 (non Forster) ; Guillemin (in parte), in ** Zephyritis Taitensis,” 
Ann. Se. Nat. 2nd ser. vol. vii. p. 358 (1837); Paxton (non Forst.), Mag. Bot. x. 
р. 241 (cum icon. color.) ; Blume (non Forst. in Van Houtte, Flor. Serr. vol. iv. 
р. 409, cum icon. color. (ex icon. Paxt. clept.); Benth. (non Forst.), Lond. Journ. 
Bot. ii. 221; Flor. Austr. iii. p. 221; Seem. (non Forst.), Flor. Viti. i. p. 82; Lindl. 
Veg. Kingd. (ex Paxton), p. 755, fig. 503 * : arbor grandis, late frondosa, ramulis 
pendulis, crassis, striatis, rufo-brunneis, pruinosis, fistulosis : foliis maximis, con- 
gestis, elongato-oblongis, apice late ovatis, rotundatis vel obtusioribus, infra medium 
sensim angustatis, acutis, vel sepius circa petiolum rotundato-truncatis, integer- 
rimis vel subrepandis, chartaceis aut subcoriaceis, supra nitidis, pallide viridibus, 
nervis divaricatis arcuatim nexis, venis transversis reticulatis, costa plana, imo 
sensim incrassata, subtus pallidioribus, flavescenti-brunnescentibus, opacis, costa 
nervisque rubidulis, prominentibus; petiolo brevissimo, lato, supra plano, limbo 
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