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inner margin rises іп a short membranaceous erect tube, leaving a deep hollow, radiately 
striated, between it and the style. 
11. BuTONICA SAMOENSIS, nob.: Barringtonia samoénsis, A. Gray, Un.-St. Expl. Exped. 
р. 508; Walpers, Ann. iv. 852: Barringtonia excelsa, Gray (non. Bl. пес Benth.) 
loc. cit. p. 508: Barringtonia racemosa, Gaud. (non Bl.), Freye. Voy. p. 483, tab. 107 
(excl. syn.) : Stravadium insigne, Bl. in Van Houtte, Flor. Serr. vii. p. 24, tab. 654, 
655: Barringtonia insignis, Miq. in Flor. Ned. Ind. i. p. 488: Barringtonia acutangula, 
Bl. (non Roxb.), Bijdr. 1097, sec. Miq. loc. cit.: arbor, ramulis subcerassis, striatis : 
foliis subapproximatis, lanceolato- vel obovato-oblongis, apice acute attenuatis, imo 
sensim angustioribus et subobtusis, marginibus vix revolutis crenato-undulatis, sub- 
serratis, flaecidis, submembranaceis, supra viridibus, opacis, ad nervos suleatis, 
nervis tenuibus adscendentibus venisque rubellis reticulatis paullo prominulis, 
subtus pallidioribus, opacis, minute granulatis, costa nervisque prominulis ; petiolo 
semitereti, latiusculo, limbo 33plo breviore: racemo terminali, pendulo; rachi 
gracili, elongata; floribus speciosis, alternis, breviter pedicellatis; calycis limbo 
mediocri, primum integre globoso, demum in lobos 3—4 rupto; petalis 4, triplo lon- 
gioribus, obtuse oblongis, suberassis, marginibus membranaceis undulato-subrecur- 
vatis; staminibus, disco styloque ut in char. gen.; ovario infero, turbinato, 4-gono, 
4-loculari, ovulis in quoque loculo 4, suspensis : fructu longiuscule oblongo, utrinque 
acutiore, lobis calycinis coronato, 4-zono, angulis costatis, abortu l-loculari et 
monospermo, semine suspenso, embryone mesopodo. Іп insulis Oceani Pacifici : 
t. 8. in hb. Hook. Port Resolution, Tanna (Barclay 3487); in hb. Mus. Brit. Tanna 
(Barclay). 
А species hitherto found only in the New Hebrides, Navigators', and the Ladrone or 
Mariana group of islands. It is said to be a tall handsome tree, growing in moist places ; 
it is well represented in Gaudichaud's drawing, the leaves of which approach those of 
Dr. Gray's var. В. Тһе plant is everywhere glabrous; the leaves are 8-15 in. (some- 
times 24 in.) long, 21-31 in. broad (in var. В 45 in. broad), on petioles З lines long and 
1$ line broad, with about 18 pairs of subascending nerves, with others shorter and inter- 
mediate, all anastomosing ; the terminal raceme is 15-24 in. long, with a rather slender 
rachis, bearing alternate flowers 3 in. apart, which, when expanded, are 2 in. across ; 
pedicels 2—4 lines long; calycine limb at first globose, 3 lin. in diam., splits into 3-4 
lobes ; petals 10 lin. long, 5 lin. broad; the fruit, as shown in Gaudichaud’s drawing, is 
3 in. long, 17 in. broad, with 4 costate angles, decurrent on the pedicel. Gaudichaud’s 
description of the seed is, that it is rostellated and bilobed at the apex. This would be 
‚ better interpreted by saying that, as in all the other species, the seed is suspended by a 
funicle, to which the abortive ovules are also attached, and which seems lobed at its 
apex, as Griffith shows in his Icones, pl. 635. fig. 8. Van Houtte’s drawing, tab. 654, to 
Which he gave the name of Stravadium insigne, Bl., does not appear to have been made 
from any cultivated specimen, as he would lead us to suppose; its originality may indeed 
be doubted, after what I have shown in regard to his drawing, tab. 409, under Barring- 
