MR. J. MIERS ON THE БАВБІХСТОХТАСЕ Ж. 65 
Barringtonia of Forster'. His example was followed by DeCandolle in 1728?, and by 
all sueceeding botanists, which has greatly contributed to the confusion at present ex- 
isting. The genus differs from Agasta very conspicuously: its leaves are more char- 
taceous, and serrated on the margins (not coriaceous and entire); its inflorescence is 
an elongated pendulous many-flowered spicated raceme (not erect and thyrsoid with few, 
very large flowers); the flowers are smaller, on much shorter slender pedicels, with a 
ealyx always conspieuously smaller, globose, and splitting into 3, rarely 4 lobes (not 
long, oval-oblong, and rupturing into two large concave lobes). It consists of several 
arborescent species, growing inland in moist places, or in estuaries on the sea-shores. 
The leaves are generally large, more or less acute and cuneated, and the racemes very 
long, with handsome flowers. Тһе fruit, in structure, resembles that of Agasta, and, 
owing to its thick spongy pericarp, is often found floating at sea along the Malayan 
coasts; they are also often found upon the coasts with the seeds germinating within the 
pericarp, after the manner shown by Roxburgh °. 
Butontca, Rumph., Lam. et Juss. 
Barringtonia, Linn. fil. (in parte) et alior.; Stravadium (in parte), DC.; Commersona et Menichea, 
Sonnerat. 
Calycis айпай! limbus mediocris, in alabastro globosus, integre clausus, mucronulatus, parallele nervosus, 
demum in lobos 3 vel 4 ruptus, viridis, persistens. Petala 4, triplo longiora, oblonga, unguibus 
tubo staminigero adglutinata et cum illo caduca. Stamina numerosissima, pluriseriata, imo breviter 
monadelpha, iis Barringtonie similia. Discus epigynus, plane aut pulvinatim annularis, margine 
exteriore tubum staminigerum fulciens, interiore in osculum elevatum expansus. Stylus et stigma 
ut in Agasta. Ovarium inferum, turbinatum, 4-loculare ; ovu/a in quoque loculo 2 vel plura, ab axi 
vel summo suspensa, anatropa. Fructus majusculus, cylindricus, ovatus, pyramidatus aut obpyri- 
formis, obsolete vel acute 4-gonus, aut 6-sulcatus cum alis 6 crassis pendentibus, apice subattenuatus | 
et calyce coronatus, indehiscens: pericarpium nitidum, crassissimum, spongioso-carnosum ; endo-' 
_ carpium tenuiter coriaceum, extus fibris numerosis lignosis tectum, intus abortu 1-loculare, cum 
loculis marcidis 3, in chorda longitudinali prominente eo affixa signatum, monospermum: semen 
magnum, loculo conforme; festa submembranacea, endocarpio adhesa; embryo exalbuminosus, 
solidus, amygdalinus, sepe edulis, ovatus, chord: impressione longitudinaliter canaliculatus, 
interdum striolatus, mesopodus. 
Arbores Asiatice, et in insulis maris Pacifici indiyene, ramosissime, ramulis sepe fistulosis : folia plerumque 
majuscula, oblonga, sepius utrinque acuta, plus minusve serrata, brevissime petiolata : racemi lami- 
nales, longi, spicati; flores speciosi, breviuscule pedicellati : fructus majusculus, forma varia, nitidus, 
levis, sepius ruber. 
1. Вотомтсл ALBA, Rumph. Amb. у. cap. 30, p. 181, tab. 116 (ubi planta valde diminuta) : 
Stravadia alba, Pers. Ench. i. p. 30: Stravadium album, DC. Prodr. iii. p. 289: 
Barringtonia alba, Bl. in У. Houtte, Fl. Serr. vii. 24; Mig. Fl. Ind. Ned. i. 485 ; 
Hask. Bot. Zeit. xxvii. p. 598: Barringtonia conoidea, Griffith, № обще, р. 656; 
Icon. РІ. Asiat. tab. 635. fig. 1 ad 18 (plant. et flor. analysis) et tab. 634 (іп parte 
quoad semen?): arbuscula, ramulis crassiusculis, rugosis, subsuleatis, fistulosis, 
* Linn. fil. Suppl. Sp. pl. p. 312. > Prodr. iii. р. 288. 3 Wight, Icon. i. tab. 152. 
