64 MR. J. MIERS ON THE BARRINGTONIACEA. 
opacis, pallide viridibus, nervis patentim divaricatis, costa plana imo sensim incras- 
sata, subtus pallidioribus, opacis, nervis costaque prominentibus ; petiolo brevissimo, 
late suleato: racemo terminali, thyrsoideo, erecto, folio breviore; floribus majus- 
culis, speciosis; pedicellis longis, teretibus, divaricato-erectis, imo bractea foliosa 
acute oblonga caduca munitis; calycis limbo magno, primum oblongo et integre 
clauso, parallele nervoso, demum in lobos 2 сопсауов rupto; petalis 4, duplo longi- 
oribus, acute oblongis, concavis, suberectis; staminibus numerosissimis, ista exce- 
dentibus ; disco intus urceolatim expanso styloque ut in char. gen. ; ovario infero, · 
turbinato, sub-4-gono, 4-loculari, ovulis in quoque loculo 6, axi superne affixis: 
fructu majusculo, calyce coronato, subglobose 5-angulato, apice subito attenuato, 
angulis aeutissimis in lobis basalibus continuis, imo plus minusve profunde cordatis 
et umbilicatis ; ceteris ut in specie precedente. Іп India orientali et Ceylonia indi- 
gena; in insulis-Comorinis et in Mauritio forsan introducta : v. s. in hb. Soc. Linn. 
Madras ( Wall. Cat. 3632 с); v. fructus in Mus. Kew. Comorin (Kirk). 
А tree of moderate size, with wide-spreading branches, at the extremities of which the 
leaves are approximated at a distance of 3 lines; the leaves vary in size from 44—12 in. 
long, 21—7 in. broad, on petioles 1-2 lines long and broad: the rachis of the raceme is 
34 in. long; the lower pedicels 24 in. long. the upper ones in bud gradually much shorter, 
the basal bract in the former 1} in. long, 5 lines broad ; the calycine lobes are 1 in. long; 
the petals 13 in. long, 1 in. broad, falling off attached to the staminiferous tube; the 
filaments are 2 in. long; ovary 5 lines long. The fruit figured by Wight does not belong 
toit; he confesses that he never saw it, but copied it from Gaertner's tab. 101, which 
belongs to a very different plant—Butonica Витрата, from the Dutch Asiatic settle- 
ments, and the fruit of which accords with Sonnerat's drawing of it. Тһе fruit of the 
Indian species may be recognized by comparison with Hermann's drawing of it; the 
largest specimens in the British Museum (locality not cited) are 44 in. long, 44 on the 
sides, 5$ in. across the angles, the cordate basal lobes extending 1 in. below the attach- 
ment upon the pedicel. Kirk's specimen from Mohille is similar in shape, but only half 
that size; that in Hermann's drawing is intermediate in size, and similar to others in 
the British-Museum collection. 
This handsome well-marked species is distinguished from the two preceding by its 
more oblong leaves, shorter racemes, with smaller flowers, shorter petals, and by the 
shape of its fruit. Тһе upper leaves in Wight's plate 547 agree in size and shape with 
those in Hermann's drawing; but the lower leaves are gradually much larger. 
The specimen of the fruit found by Dr. Kirk on one of the Comorin Islands was pro- 
bably floated by sea from the Indian coast, as Commerson and Sonnerat relate, and is 
known by the name of “ Bonnet rouge." 
The floral and carpological features are shown in Plate XII. 
3. BUTONICA. 
lis genus was first described in 1744 by Rumphius', was acknowledged by Lamarck 
in 1788 *, and by Jussieu i in 1189°; vat the younger Linnzeus, in 1781, united it with the 
EIL Ms ш 223 Diet, Méthod. i. 591. > Gen. Pl. p. 326. 
