80 МВ. 7. MIERS ON THE BARRINGTONIACE Ж. 
STRAVADIUM, Jussieu. 
Stravadia, Pers. ; Meteorus, Lour.; Butonica (in parte), Rumph. ; Barringtonia (in parte), Miquel et 
alior.; Botryoropis, Presl. 
Calycis adnati limbus 4-sepalus: sepala parva, rotundata, membranacea, sæpius ciliata, æstivatione sub- 
imbricata, persistentia. Petala 4, oblonga, 3—4plo longiora, unguibus tubo staminigero affixa et cum 
illo caduca. Stamina numerosissima, multiseriata, imo breviter in tubum erectum monadelpha: 
filamenta filiformia, petala vix excedentia, qualia, omnia antherifera. Stylus tenuiter subulatus, 
paullo incurvus, eorum longitudine : stigma parvum, clavatum : ovarium inferum, turbinatum, szpius 
4-angulatum, semper 2-loculare, vertice intra discum valde concavum ; ovu/a in quoque loculo 2, ab 
apice funiculo brevi suspensa. Fructus oblongus, plus minusve elongatus, tetragonus, angulis ssepius 
costatis, calyce coronatus, abortione 1-locularis et monospermus : pericarpium subcrassum, coriaceum, 
fibrosum : semen loculum implens, apice suspensum, homogeneum, structura ei Butonice simile. 
Arbores in India orientali, Malacca, Archipelago Asiat. et Australia vigentes, sepius mediocres : folia ob- 
longa, utrinque acuta, serrata, petiolata : racemi terminales, longe spicati : flores subparvi. 
1. STRAVADIUM ACUTANGULUM, nob.: Eugenia acutangula, Linn. Sp. Pl. i. 673 (excl. 
syn.); Syst. Veg. i. 461; Flor. Zeyl. p. 85. no. 190 (excl. synon. in Pl. Her- 
mann. iv. p. 50); Willd. Sp. ii. 966 (excl. syn.): Barringtonia acutangula, Gaertn. 
Fruct. ii. 97, tab. 101; Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 635 (exclus. syn. Lour. et Rumph.); 
Thwaites, Enum. p. 118 (in parte): foliis in apice ramulorum congestis, oblongis, 
apice obtusis aut subacutis, infra medium sensim cuneatis, chartaceis, margine 
crenato-serrulatis, dentibus obtusis ssepe aciculato-mucronatis, glabris, supra viri- 
dibus, minute granulosis, nervis tenuissimis venisque reticulatis semiimmersis, 
subtus cinereo-glaucis, opacis, nervis venisque prominulis; petiolo semitereti, supra 
plano, subtus corruguloso, limbo 10plo breviore: racemo terminali, spicato, mox 
pendulo, folio 6plo longiore; floribus parvis, subsparsis, brevissime pedicellatis, 
glabris; sepalis 4 (rarissime 3), ovatis, erectis, marginibus membranaceis acute 
serrulatis; petalis 4, obovatis, 3plo longioribus, membranaceis; ovario infero, 
turbinato, acute 4-angulari, 2-loculari: fructu (sec. Gaertn.) oblongo-ellipsoideo, 
tetragono, angulis crasse costatis, utrinque attenuato, calyce coronato, 1-loculari et 
monospermo, semine ut in char. gen. et 4-partibili. In Ceylonia: v.s. in hb. Mus. 
Brit.; in hb. Hermanni, loc. cit. specimen typicum Linnei, Ceylon (Thwaites 
1572). 
In the typical specimen the leaves are 11-21 in. long, 2-11 in. broad, on petioles 2-3 
lines long; raceme 13 in. long ; pedicels 1 line long; sepals 2 line, petals 24 lines long. 
Gaertner’s figure of the fruit is from a specimen in the Leyden Museum, which came 
from Ceylon under the vernacular name Medella, the same as mentioned by Thwaites, 
and was probably contributed by Hermann to the Leyden collection, as he published 
there his work on the Ceylon flora. It is 13 in. long, 2 in. broad across the prominent 
angles ; the seed is oblong, subtetragonous, rounded at base, subacute at the apex, 13 lines 
long, 6 lines broad, the external portion (exorhiza) splitting into 4 parts along the sides. 
The plant in Ceylon bears the vernacular name of Ella-medella-gass. 
р M of the typieal plant, its flower, fruit, and seed, are shown in Plate XVII. 
