110 MR. J. MIERS ON THE BARRINGTONIACEA. 
dibus, nervis paullo prominulis, costa plana, imo incrassata, subtus pallidioribus, 
nervis validis, albescentibus; petiolo brevi, crasso, semitereti, late marginato, atro- 
viridi, limbo 70plo breviore: racemo terminali, pendulo, folio :equilongo; floribus 
speciosis, sparse spicatis, pedicellatis ; sepalis 2, 3, 4, acutis, erectis, marginibus an- 
guste inflexis, chartaceis, parallele nervosis; petalis 4, 5, 6, obovatis, triplo longi- 
oribus, lateribus undulato-reflexis, albis ; staminibus disco styloque ut in char. gen. ; 
ovario infero, 4-loculari: fructu elongato-cylindrico, structura in char. gen. descripta. 
In Java et in insulis Sondaicis: v. s. in hb. Mus. Brit. Patjetan (Horsfield) ; in hb. 
Hook. Straits Sunda (Staunton); fruct. non vidi. 
А lofty tree, with spreading branches; its leaves are 10—18 in. long, 4—6 in. broad, on 
stout petioles 2 lines long and broad; raceme more than a foot long, with flowers 2-4 
in. apart, 21 in. in diam. ; porous stoutish, nearly i in. long; ovary the length of the 
sepals, which are 4 ‚ long; petals 9-12 lines long; staminiferous tube y5 in. long; 
exterior filaments 11 in. TOM моё ones short, capillary without anthers; fruit 5 in. 
long, 14 in. broad at the angles, 1 in. broad at the sides; cell of pericarp 23 in. long; the 
seed fills the cell. Blume regarded this plant as a variety of Виютса racemosa, 
naming it elongata, оп account of its very long cylindrical fruit. Hasskahl gave copious 
and exact characters of this plant, which is almost the only species in the family well 
described; for Blume and Miquel have given only laconic characters, often contradic- 
tory and incomplete. Най they followed the example of Hasskahl, we should have 
obtained a much better knowledge of the family. 
А drawing of this species (with its floral and carpological analyses) is shown in 
Tab. XV. figs. 1 to 8. 
2. MEGADENDRON PALLIDUM, nob.: foliis longe lanceolatis, apice sensim acuminatis, 
imo gradatim longe cuneatis, subsessilibus, sinuato-serratis vel marginibus sub- 
revolutis, hine punctis nigris remotis signatis, subcoriaceis, supra pallidissimis, nervis 
remotis subrecto-divergentibus marginem versus nexis, costa plana, immersa, imo 
gradatim valde incrassata, subtus fere concoloribus, costa nervisque prominentibus; 
petiolo vix ullo: racemo terminali, pendulo, rachi subtenui, compresse striata; 
floribus subsparsis, brevissime pedicellatis; sepalis 2—3, acutis, rectis, concavis, mar- 
ginibus anguste, involutis (petalis et staminibus lapsis); ovario infero, oblongo, ob- 
solete tetragono, superne disci urceolo stylum ambiente notato, 4-loculari, loculis 3 
cum ovulis abortivis, in altero ovulo magno pendulo. In Java: v. s. i». hb. Mus. 
Brit. loc. cit. ( Horsfield). 
A species evidently belonging to this genus : its leaves are 191 in. long, 42 in. broad, 
quite sessile; the rachis of the raceme is not very stout, 15 in. long; pedicels 3—6 lines 
apart, less than 1 line long ; ovary grown after the fall of the petals is 2 in. long, erowned 
by 2, sometimes 3 sepals 5 lines long, 24-3 lines broad at the base. 
3. MEGADENDRON ? AMBIGUUM, nob. : Barringtonia timorensis, Blume in Van Houtte, 
_ Flor. Serr. vii. p. 25; Мід. in Fl. Ind. Ned. i. p. 485: foliis oblongis vel elliptico- 
oblongis, apice acutis aut acuminatis, infra medium subcuneatis, basi subacutis 
