100 MR. J. MIERS ОМ THE ВАКВГУСТОМТАСЕЖ. 
prominulis valde reticulatis, subtus paullo pallidioribus, costa striata valde pro- 
minente, nervis stramineis prominentibus; petiolo tereti, imo crassiore, limbo 8plo 
breviore: racemo terminali, multifloro, nutante ; rachi valida, imo crassiore, angu- 
lato-suleata, colorata; floribus majuseulis, subapproximatis, subsessilibus vel bre- 
vissime pedicellatis, bracteolis minutis subulatis imo donatis; calyce cupulari, fere 
ad basin in lobos 4 subimbricatos rotundatos согіасеоѕ marginibus membranaceis 
ciliato-denticulatis diviso; petalis 4, expansis, crassiusculis, profunde rubris, 
elongato-ovatis, calycis 3pla longitudine, marginibus revolutis, unguibus ad tubum 
staminigerum affixis еб cum illo caducis; staminibus numerosissimis, albis, quam 
petala longioribus, pluriseriatis, interioribus sterilibus ; disco annulato, margine ex- 
teriore tubum staminiferum erectum fuleiente, intus in urceolum verticem ovarii con- 
cavum cingentem producto; ovario subcylindrico, tetragono, ovulis 3 in quoque 
loculo funiculis brevibus suspensis: fructu (vix maturo) cylindrice oblongo, apice 
subconstricto et calyce coronato, subtetragono, levi, rubidulo, pericarpio crasso, 
abortu l-loculari et monospermo; semine ovato, cum ovulis abortivis pendulo, 
raphe lineari cum funieulo crassiusculo continua, testa reticulata, imo chalaza sig- 
nato. Inregione Malayana et Borneo: v. s. in hb. Hook. Mergui к iffith), Mergui 
(Parish cum icone), Sarawak (Beccari 3255). 
А. low tree, growing in woods on hill-sides. А good floral idv is given both by 
Griffith and Parish. The branchlets are 2 in. thick; the leaves are 11-14 in. long, 
21-3 in. broad, on petioles 11—13 in. long, with about 15 pairs of nerves, and others 
shorter and intermediate. Тһе raceme is 21 feet long, with a stout sulcated rachis 
3-5 lines thick; flowers 1—5 in. apart; calycine lobes 1 in. long and broad; petals 14 in. 
long, 1 in. broad; stamens 2 in. long ; fruit 22 in. long, 11 lines broad ; seed 2 in. long, $ in. 
broad. Griffith, in p. 662, refers to a drawing of this in his tab. 634.4; but there we find à 
jumble of figures, without numbers, belonging to Careya and Cornus, 15 figures be- 
longing to the former, the remainder to the latter genus. Of the former I take ten 
to represent the seed of this species, the two top figures on the left hand showing 
them in their natural size as above described; another figure shows it magnified to 
double that size ; and seven others exhibit the same, with the embryo before and after it 
commences germination, showing at the plumular end a curving subulate shoot, furnished 
at its base with imbricating scales. The five larger figures before mentioned seem to 
belong to his Barringtonia conoidea, for which there was no room in his Plate 615. 
This intermixture of figures without explanation is attributable to the editor of Griffith's 
‘Notule.’ A drawing of this species (with its analyses) is shown in Plate XV. fig. 9 et seq. 
2. DoxoMMA CYLINDROSTACHYA, nob.: Barringtonia cylindrostachya, Griffith, Notule, 
part iv. p. 655: ramulis crassis, striatis, opacis : foliis subsparsis, longissime petio- 
latis, lanceolatis vel lanceolato-oblongis, apice breviter acuminatis, imo cuneatis, 
margine cartilagineo subrevoluto obsoletissime serratis, chartaceis, supra pallide 
viridibus, opacis, ad nervos suleatis, nervis plurimis patenti-divaricatis, intra mar- 
ginem nexis, transversim reticulatis, subtus flavidioribus, opacis, nervis valde 
prominentibus, costa prominente; petiolo tereti, striolato, pallide brunneo, imo 
