72 MR. J. MIERS ON THE BARRINGTONIACE.JE. 
tatis, circa petiolum subito anguste rotundiusculis, marginibus subintegris, valde 
revolutis et subretuse undulatis, subcoriaceis, supra pallide viridibus, valde opacis, 
ruguloso-granulatis, nervis adscendenti-divaricatis, semiimmersis, reticulatis, subtus 
rufescenti-pallidis, opacis, nervis venis costaque plana et striolata prominulis; 
petiolo brevissimo, aut vix ullo: racemo axillari; floribus ignotis: fructu majusculo, 
obpyriformi-oblongo, 8-sulcato, calyce coronato; регісагріо crassissimo, ligneo- 
fibroso, abortu 1-loculari et monospermo; semine magno, ab apice suspenso, 10-sul- 
cato ; testa subcoriacea, cum racheos ramis longitudinalibus in suleos immersis ; em- 
bryone conformi, mesopodo, apice in germinatione radicem pullulante, imo caulem 
novum emittente (sec. cl. Griffith). In Malacca: v. pl. s. т hb. Hook. ( Griffith) 
sine flore. 
A species well distinguished by the size and shape of its leaves, and by the larger size 
of its fruit, which is differently constructed from that of Butonica racemosa, to which 
Griffith referred it. Не gives no description whatever of his plant, but he figures the 
fruit. In his ‘ Мой’ he states that he found 4 species of Barringtonia in Malacca :— 
Ist, this plant, of which he sent home a specimen. 2nd, his В. conoidea, well repre- 
sented separately in the plant, its inflorescence, and also in its fruit, in his plate 636, 
and which I have referred to В. alata. 3rd, B. alata, of which no account is given, but 
its fruit is well shown in his plate 635, and which his editor mistook for that of 
В. conoidea, confounding together Griffith’s explanations of the two; both the 
fruit and specimens of the plant are manifestly identical with Wallich's plants of the 
same. 4th, В. cylindrostachys, which I have referred to the genus Doromma. Its 
approximated leaves are 41—61 in. long, 2-21 in. broad, on broadish petioles, 11-2 lines 
long; a bare raceme is seen in the specimen, the rachis of which is 6 in. long, with 
cicatrices of the fallen flowers + in. apart. The fruit in Griffith's drawing is large, 33 in. 
long, 21 in. in diam., rounded at the base, tapering a little above the middle, and crowned 
by the persistent calyx; the fibrous pericarp is 6 lines thick ; the suspended seed as large 
as a fowl’s egg, showing at its summit the abortive ovules, and the axis and abortive 
dissepiments pressed to one side, appearing like a thick longitudinal raphe; but the true 
raphe is seen in ten longitudinal branches imbedded in the thickish testa, which are 
opposite to as many furrows in the large embryo. This is drawn in its full size, showing 
the commencement of its germination by the protrusion of a small nipple in the summit, 
which afterwards expands into a root, while the bottom of the exorhiza splits to allow 
the exit of the extremity of the neorhiza, afterwards becoming the new stem, charged 
with scales; and upon this structure and on the mode of its germination, Griffith offers 
the remarks to which I have before alluded (р. 50). Тһе fruit of this species is shown 
in Plate XIV. fig. 19.). 
. BUTONICA ROSATA, nob.: Menichea rosata, Sonnerat, Voy. Guin. (1776), p. 133, tab. 
92, 93: arbor ramis crassis: foliis oblongo-lanceolatis, apice sensim acute acumi- 
natis, imo longe cuneatis, obsolete serrulatis, petiolo brevi: racemis terminalibus vel 
е trunco enatis, nutantibus, folio subzequilongis ; floribus alternis, pedicellatis ; calyce 
demum in lobos 3 acutos rupto ; petalis 4, albis, concavis, apice rotundatis; stami- 
nibus, disco styloque ut in char. gen. ; ovario infero, turbinato, acute 4-gono, 4-locu- 
