84 MR. J. MIERS ON THE BARRINGTONIACE#. 
terminalibus, folio triplo longioribus, pendulis; rachi gracili, hepatica; floribus 
alternatim spicatis; pedicellis tenuibus, angulatis, fuscis, sepalis triplo longioribus; 
sepalis 4, parvis, ovatis, pallidis, marginibus membranaceis, ciliolatis, extus pul- 
verulento-puberulis; petalis 4, triplo longioribus, oblongis, membranaceis, coccineis 
vel roseis, cum staminibus intense purpureis, disco styloque ut in char. gen. ; ovario 
infero, turbinato, octagono angulis 4 acutioribus, vertice intra disci urceolum 
latum concavato, 2-loculari, ovulis in quoque loculo 2, suspensis: drupa late ob- 
longa, obtuse octagona, glabra, fusca, calyce coronata, abortu 1-loculari et 1-sperma : 
semine magno, duro, rotundato. In Cochin-China : v. s. in hb. Mus. Brit. plantam 
typicam (Loureiro); in hb. Hook. Siam (Schomb. 182—309). 
A tree of considerable size, growing in woods, very distinct from Butonica terrestris, 
with which it has been confounded. Its leaves are 4-5 in. long, 13-2 in. broad, on 
petioles 8-5 lines long, and with about 10 pairs of nerves. Тһе racemes are 10-18 in. 
long, with flowers 3—5 lines apart, on pedicels 3 lines long, having a small deciduous 
bract at their base; the sepals are 1 line long, the petals 3 lines long; the size of the 
fruit is not stated. Loureiro describes the corolla as monopetalous, not observing that 
the petals were agglutinated to the staminiferous tube. 
7. STRAVADIUM LUZONENSE, nob.: Botryoropsis luzonensis, Presl, Epim. Bot. p. 220; 
Miq. Fl. Ned. Ind. i. 492; Walp. Ann. ii. 642: ramulis dichotomis, subtenuibus, 
cinereo-brunneis, striolatis, apice confertim foliiferis: foliis oblongo-ellipticis, apice 
in acumen breve acutum constrictis, imo subcuneatis et in petiolo brevi decur- 
rentibus, marginibus basin versus reflexis, undique serrulatis, dentibus erectis, sub- 
uncinatis, apice acute mucronulatis, flaccide chartaceis, supra rufescenti-viridulis, 
opacis, nervis arcuatim adscendentibus reticulatis, subtus pallidis, opacis, nervis 
paullo prominentibus ; petiolo brevissimo, semitereti, acute marginato, limbo 30plo 
longiore: racemo terminali, longiusculo ; rachi tenuissima, striolata, spicatiflora, 
rufescente, ebracteolata ; floribus plurimis, pedicellatis ; sepalis 4, rotundatis, margine 
late pallideque membranaceis, setulis rufulis ciliatis; petalis 4, oblongo-ovatis, 4plo 
longioribus, marginibus membranaceis, erosulis ; filamentis hzec excedentibus, crenu- 
lato-crispatis; disco angustissime annulari, margine interno in tubum crassum 
erectum ore lato integrum expanso; ovario infero, turbinato, tetragono, angulis 
sepalis alternis, pedicelloque pilis rigidis rufulis puberulo, 2-loculari, ovulis 2 in 
quoque loculo apici dissepimenti affixis. In ins. Philippinis: v. 8. iz hb. Hook. et 
Mus. Brit. Laguna in Luzon (Cuming 653, 1268). 
I have given the above diagnosis from my own observations. The genus Botryoropsis 
of Presl, formed on Cuming’s plant (658), which I have carefully examined, differs in 10 
respect from Stravadium. Не was certainly wrong in attributing to it opposite branches 
and leaves; the 2-celled ovary and the broad tubular expansion of the inner margin of 
the disk are present in the preceding and all other species; indeed the latter feature 
differs only in degree, and is therefore of no more than specific value; the stamens are 
very numerous, and at least 6-seried ; and the anthers differ in no respect from the others; 
the ovules are affixed to the summit of the dissepiment; in fine, there is no generic 
