MR. J. MIERS ON THE BARRINGTONIACE Ж. 105 
remarks that in its expansive inflorescence, which is very remarkable, it is unlike any 
known species of Careya. Т have nowhere met with any plant which agrees with Dr. 
Jack's description, except that above quoted, found in Borneo by Beccari, the distances 
between the two places being only 600 miles of intervening sea. Jack's account differs 
in no respect from Beccari’s plant except in the character of his nectarium, which is 
said to be hypocrateriform ; but this cannot be; it is certainly a mistake, caused by the 
editor of his notes, in substituting that word for crateriform. With this correction, 
Jack’s account admirably conforms with the structure seen in Beccari's plant; we ean 
therefore have little doubt of the specific identity of the two plants. Jack does not give 
the size of the leaves, though in form both are alike: in Beccari’s specimen they are 
21-53 in. long, 13—31 in. broad, on slender petioles, thickened at their base, 7-9 lines 
long. The rachis of the inflorescence, according to Jack, is thick, massive, cylin- 
drieal, 8-10 in. long, bearing crowded sessile rather large handsome flowers. In Beccari’s 
specimen the turbinated ovary, 3 lines long, is 12 line thick at base, 4 lines above; the 
sepals are 3 lines long and broad ; the petals, thick and fleshy, are 10 lines long, 6 lines 
broad; the stamens, 11 lines long, are seated on a monadelphous tube 1 line long; the 
elevated expansion of the inner margin of the disk (nectarium, Jack) is two lines higher 
than the disk, but much deeper within and around the style, its entire margin being 21 
lines in diameter: the structure of the ovary is as I have described it. Wallich wrongly 
referred to this species his S/ravadiwm angustatum ; Roxburgh was alike in error with 
respect to his Barringtonia racemosa, and Griffith also to his Careya pendula, as well as 
Miquel in regard to his S/ravadiwm costatum. АП these surmises are without any 
evidence to support them. ' 
$ 2. Реной subbreves. 
10. Похомма ANGUSTATUM, nob.: Stravadium angustatum, Wall. т Cat. 3637: ramulis 
erassiusculis, angulato-suleatis, pallide brunneis, fistulosis: foliis approximatis, lan- 
ceolato-oblongis, apice in acumen acutum attenuatis, a medio gradatim cuneatis ad 
imum angustum subito rotundatis, margine cartilagineo subrevoluto crenatis, et 
obsoletissime serrulatis, flaccide coriaceis, supra pallidissime glaucis, opacis, nervis 
tenuibus divaricatis prominulis, reticulatis, subtus fere concoloribus, nervis venisque 
reticulatis prominentibus, costa striolata paullo prominente ; petiolo compresso, lati- 
usculo, supra plano, subtus eonvexo et striolato, pruinoso, limbo 80-90plo breviore : 
racemo terminali, stricto, folio multo breviore; rachi cylindrica, undique ereberrime 
florifera; floribus pro genere parvis, sessilibus, bracteolatis ; calyce cupuliformi, 
fere ad basin in sepala rotundata coriacea margine ciliata diviso; petalis 4, sepalis 
2plo longioribus, membranaceis ; staminibus numerosissimis, imo in tubulum erec- 
tum monadelphis; disco annulari, extus tubum staminiferum fulciente, теріне 
interno in prominentiam brevem vertice concavo ambiente producto ; ovario infero, 
quadrato, angulis alis rigide coriaceis crenato-undulatis munito, albide pulverulento, 
4-loculari, ovulis 2-4 in quoque loculo suspensis. In Tenasserim: г. s. in hb. Soc. 
Linn. et Hook. Amherst (Wall. Cat. 3637 cum not; an Careya macrostachya, 
Jack ?) ; Tenasserim (Wall. Cat. 3631, Helfors). 
