82 MR. J. MIERS ON THE ВАККІМСТОМІАСЕ Ж. 
Mergui (Griffith); in herb. Soc. Linn. Amherst (Wall. Cat. 3635 с); Guayalpoor 
(Wall. Cat. 3635 А), Chittagong (Wall. Cat. 3635 т). 
This species is said by Griffith to be a low tree, growing in moist woods, over all the 
Malayan provinces. Its branches are slender, with leaves crowded at their extremities, 
with axils 2-3 lines apart. The leaves аге 33—5 in. long, 13—2 in. broad, on petioles 3-5 
lines long; the raceme is 12-18 in. long, on a rachis 1-3 line thick, with flowers 4-5 
lines apart, on slender pedicels 14 line long, supported by a linear persistent bract 2 lines 
long; the sepals are 1 line long and broad, petals 5 lines long. The immature fruit, in 
Griffith’s specimen, is 11 in. long, 8 lines broad, has 4 acute almost winged angles. 
The species offers much resemblance to S. Rheedii, but differs in being of low stature, 
producing longer spicated racemes, which bear larger flowers on pedicels bracteated at 
their base, and in its fruit with almost winged crenulated angles. 
4. SrTRAvADIUM RHEEDII, Blume in Van Houtte, Flor. Serr. vii. p. 24 (excl. synon.): 
Barringtonia acutangula, Roxb. (non Gaertn.) in parte, Fl. Ind. iii. p. 635 (excl. 
syn.); W. & A. Prodr. Fl. Ind. p. 335 (excl. syn.) : Eugenia racemosa, ВохЪ. (non 
Linn.), Icon. E. I. C. Mus. tab. 149: arbor valida, ramosa, ramulis tenuibus, valde 
rugosis, pallide brunneis, striatis, cortice crasso, fusco, asperato : foliis subconfertis, 
elliptieo- vel spathulato-oblongis, apice obtuse acuminatis, raro acutioribus, imo 
 euneatis, serrulatis, dentibus obtusis ssepe mucronulatis, rigide chartaceis vel sub- 
coriaceis, supra saturate viridibus vel pallidioribus, opacis, sub lente (preesertim in 
nervis) granulis minutis asperatis, nervis tenuibus paullo prominulis, eosta sub- 
immersa, subtus pallidioribus, opacis, seepe dealbatis, glaucis vel fulvidis, nervis 
costaque prominulis reticulatis; petiolo supra plano aut sulcato, marginato, subtus 
corrugulato, limbo 15-20plo breviore: racemo terminali, spicatifloro, pendulo, folio 
duplo aut ultra longiore ; rachi subtenui ; floribus subapproximatis, longiuscule a 
cellatis; sepalis 4, ovatis, membranaceis, ciliatis; petalis бро longioribus, 4, 
oblongis, carneis vel intense rubris, extus carinatis, marginibus ciliatis; staminibus 
coccineis; ovario infero, turbinato, acute 4-angulato, 2-loculari, ovulis in loculis 
suspensis: fructu oblongo, utrinque subangustiore, calyce coronato; pericarpio 
coriaceo, interrupte plurisuleato, acute tetragono, angulis tenuiter nerviformibus, 
abortu 1-loculari et monospermo ; semine oblongo, profunde parallele sulcato, solido. 
Arbores in Indis peninsula undique sparse: v. s. in herb. Hook. penins. Ind. 
(Wight 1083), Travancore (Wight 1062), Madras (Wall. Cat. 3635 в), N. W. Ind. 
(Royle), Serampore (Edgeworth), Afghanistan (Ritchie 286), in planit. Ganges 
(Thompson), in hort. Cale. cult. (Griffith 2494) ; in hb. Soc. Linn. hort. Cale. cult. 
(Wall, Cat. 3635 к), ex hb. Roxburgh (in Wall. Cat. 3635 F), ex hb. Finlayson 
(Wall. Cat. 3635 1) ; in hb. Sir J. Smith. 
The several plants from all parts of the Indian peninsula above indicated are here con- 
ой to be the same as the Barringtonia acutangula, Roxb.; but they may require 
Dhaene and кенен Locket upon this species as the Туегіс Saamstravadi of 
Rheede (Hort. Mal. tab. 7); but they were misled into this opinion by the circum- 
