MR. J. MIERS ON THE BARRINGTONIACEÆ. 71 
fruticosa, ramulis brunneis, pallide glaucis, interrupte striatis, apice confertim foli- 
osis; foliis oblongis, apice in acumen breve obtusum constrictis, basin versus angus- 
tatis et subito rotundiusculis, obsolete serratis, dentibus obtusissimis, chartaceis, 
supra profunde viridibus, opacis, nervis vix prominulis, subtus pallidioribus, opacis, 
costa nervis venisque reticulatis prominulis ; petiolo latiusculo, limbo 40plo breviore : 
racemis axillaribus, subspicatim erectis, folio dimidio vel bis triente brevioribus, sub- 
paucifloris; pedicellis tenuiter teretibus, imo articulatis et minute bibracteolatis ; 
calycis limbo mediocri, primum globoso-ovato, apice mucronulato, demum in lobos 2, 
dein in 4, rupto ; petalis 4, oblongo-lanceolatis, carnosulis, albide carneis ; staminibus, 
disco styloque ut in char. gen. ; ovario infero, conico-cylindrico, 6-sulcato, imo um- 
bilieato et 6-lobo, 4-loculari, ovulis in quoque loculo 2 suspensis: drupa majuscula, 
conice elongata, imo profunde umbilicata, apice 6-sulcata et calyce coronata, basin 
versus in lobos 6 crasse alatos pendentes expansa, 1-loculari, abortu 1-sperma ; peri- 
carpio sicco, fibroso ; semine majusculo, ovato, 6-suleato, ab apice pendulo; embryone 
conformi, homogeneo, neorhiza interna conspicua. In Malacca: v. s. in herb. Hook. 
Mergui (Griffith) ; in hb. Soc. Linn. Moulmein (Wall. Cat. 3633); v. fruct. in Mus. 
Soe. Linn. ( Wallich). 
We have no published aecount or manuscript details of this remarkable species. 
Griffith's analysis of its fruits, which agrees with all I found in Wallich’s specimen (as 
shown here in Plate XIV.), is figured in his work in plate 636 в, figs. 1 and 6, through 
the mistake of the editor of the * Хобе, under the name of Barringtonia conoidea, while 
the fruit of the latter is not represented by him, though it is well described in a manu- 
script note attached by him to his specimen of the plant. 
The leaves are 7-10 in. long, 21-31 in. broad, on a rather wide flat petiole 13-2 lines 
long, and they have about 11 pairs of curving subascending nerves; the racemes are 3—4 
in. long, with a slender, erect, compressed, striolated, brownish-opaque rachis, bearing 
alternate flowers 3 in. apart; the slender subnutant pedicels are 9 lines long; the calycine 
lobes, after bursting, are 41 lines long, 2-8 lines broad, pruinosely opaque, concave ; petals 
pruinose outside; the fruit, including the wings, which descend $ in. below the top of the 
pedicel, is 2} in. long, 2 in. near the apex, gradually widening to a breadth of 2 in. across 
the six compressed subcoriaceous wings; pericarp 14 line thick, with an oval cell some- 
what narrow at the apex, the axis and dissepiments being pressed together on one side ; 
seed oblong, 6-suleated, suspended by a funicle, around which the abortive ovules are 
seen; the hard homogeneous nucleus is lj in. long, 1 in. in diameter, the internal 
neorhiza having a diameter of half that size, and is partially free from the exorhiza, 
showing a sensible interval between them. Ап analysis of Wallich's specimen of the 
fruit is shown in Plate XIV. figs. 13, 14. 
7. Butontca INCLYTA, nob.: Barringtonia racemosa, Griffith (non ВІ. nec alior.), 
Notule, p. 659; Icon. РІ. Asiat. tab. 636. 2 (non 1). fig. 1 ad 6: ramulis sub- 
tenuibus, apice, erebre foliosis: foliis mediocribus, obverse obovato-oblongis, apice 
. valde obtusis aut rotundatis, sæpe emarginatis, infra medium subcuneatim angus- 
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