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stance, not noticed by them, that the Saamstravadi in that place is reduced to half its 
natural size: that plant is the Butonica rubra, nob. (ante, p. 70). At the same time, 
Roxburgh, Wight, and others considered this species to һе identical with the дета 
acutangula of Linnszeus and of Gaertner; but there is ample evidence to prove the 
contrary. This plant closely approaches 5. demisswm, a species apparently confined to 
the Malay provinces and adjoining islands ; but it differs in its smaller and paler flowers. 
Roxburgh says it is a large handsome tree, in appearance like a regular and well-shaped 
middle-sized Oak, with slender branches; its leaves vary in size from 3-6} in. long, 
13-25 in. broad, on petioles 3-6 lines long; the raceme is 6-10 in. long, the flowers 
3 lines apart, on pedicels 1-2 lines long; the sepals are 4 line long and broad, the petals 
З lines long; the immature fruit is 14 in. long, 1 in. broad; the embryo of the seed 
when in a fresh state has a savoury taste, but afterwards becomes bitter. 
9. STRAVADIUM PUBESCENS, nob.: Barringtonia acutangula, W. & А. (поп Roxb. nec 
Gaertn.), Prodr. Fl. Ind. p. 335 (in parte et excl. synon.): ramulis subangulatis, 
rugoso-striatis, ex cinereo уе] rufescente brunneis, subpuberulis vel glauco-pruinosis : 
folis elliptico-oblongis, apice latioribus, obtusis aut brevissime apiculatis, imo 
sensim subacutis, заре cuneatis, subserrulatis, dentibus mucronulatis, chartaceis, 
supra pallide viridibus, nervis tenuissimis subimmersis, venis transverse reticulatis, 
subtus ssepe pallidissimis, opacis, costa nervisque prominentibus, brevissime tomen- 
tellis, preesertim in nervis; petiolo subcrasso, imo latiusculo, puberulo, supra plano, 
limbo 10plo breviore: racemis sepe іп ramulis novellis brevibus terminalibus, folio 
3-6plo longioribus, rachi tenui, angulata, griseo-puberula, spicatiflora; floribus 
pedicellatis; pedicellis imo braeteola parvula squamiformi æquilonga munitis ; 
sepalis 4, parvis, rotundatis, extus puberulis, membranaceis, ciliatis; petalis 4, 
oblongis, triplo longioribus, pallide roseis, raro intensioribus ; ovario infero, turbinato, 
tetragono, aspere puberulo, 2-loculari. In Indis peninsula: v. в. in hb. Hook. Coro- 
mandel (Konig, Roxb. in Wall. Cat. 3635 в), Concan (Dalzell), Carnatic (G. Thoinp- 
son), Indie penins. (Wight 1062-1080), Courtallam (Wight 1063; in Wall. Cat. 
3635, ex hb. Wight). 
This species, which seems confined to the more southern provinces of the Peninsula, is 
very near the preceding, differing among other characters in its singular pubescence. 
Its leaves are 21-5 in. long, 14-24 in. broad, on petioles 3-6 lines long; the racemes are 
12-18 in. long, pedicels 1 line long, sepals $ line long, petals 3 lines long; the fruit is 
unknown. 
6. SrRAYADIUM сосотхкпм, DC. Prodr. iii, 289: Meteorus coccineus, Lour. Coch. Chin. ii. 
449: arbor magna, ramis tortuosis, adscendentibus, ramulis crebre striatis : foliis sub- 
sparsis, elliptico-oblongis vel obovatis, apice obtusis aut vix acutis, imo sensim 
cuneatis, ad marginem subintegrum obsolete crenato-serrulatis, rigide chartaceis, 
supra subhepaticis, opacis, nervis rufulis costaque plana subprominulis valde reti- 
culatis, subtus flavide opacis, sub lente minutissime granulatis, nervis flavescentibus 
< Costaque prominentibus; petiolo supra plano, limbo 12-16plo breviore: racemis 
