112 MR. J. MIERS ON THE BARRINGTONIACEÆ. 
petiolata ; inflorescentia terminalis vel subazillaris, singulariter. paniculata, rachi pubescente, ramis 
pedunculatis, alternatim longe nodosis ; flores sessiles, cum nodis articulati et plerumque tandem caduci, 
speciosi; fructus cylindrice oblongus, viz notus. 
1. CHYDENANTHUS EXCELSUS, nob.: Barringtonia excelsa, Blume (non Benth.), Bijdr. 
1097; Miq. Fl. Ned. Ind. i. p. 491: Stravadium excelsum, Bl. in DC. Prodr. iii. 289; 
Bl. in Van Houtte, Fl. Serr. vii. p. 24: arbor alta, ramulis pallide brunneis, opacis : 
foliis oblongo- vel lanceolato-ellipticis, apice subito et acute attenuatis, imo obtusis 
vel acutioribus, marginibus cartilagineis subrevolutis vix repando-serratis, chartaceis, 
supra pallide viridibus, valde opacis, sub lente granulosis, nervis tenuissimis sub- 
adscendentibus arcuatim nexis, semiimmersis, costa tenui, subtus pallide fulvescenti- 
bus, opacis, minute granulosis, costa nervis stramineis venisque transversim reticulatis 
subprominentibus; petiolo semitereti, corrugulato, limbo 20plo breviore: racemis 
axillaribus et simplicibus, folio dimidio brevioribus, vel terminalibus, longioribus et 
ramoso-paniculatis, fulvide tomentellis, ramis remotis aut verticellatim congestis, 
imo (ut in axillaribus) nudis, supra medium spicati-floris, nodis crassis projectis, 
alternis, erecto-divaricatis, singulis l-floris; floribus hine sessilibus et articulatis, 
plerumque caducis; calycis limbo cupuliformi, margine membranaceo, undulato, 
obsolete 4-lobato, griseo, puberulo; petalis 4, obovatis, quorum 2 paullo majoribus, 
membranaceis, minute puberulis, unguibus tubo staminigero affixis; staminibus 
numerosissimis, petalis longioribus, imo in tubum brevem monadelphis, seriebus 
interioribus eximie brevioribus, tenuioribus, anantheris, ad basin fere liberis; disco 
annulari, extus tubum staminigerum fulciente, margine interno іп tubulum crassum 
sulcatum stylum ambiente expanso; ovario infero, cylindrico, 8-sulcato, distincte 
2-loculari, ovulo unico in quoque loculo e basi erecto: drupa elongato-ellipsoidea, 
utrinque obtusa, tetragona. Java, in maritimis: v. s. in hb. Mus. Brit. Prowats 
(Horsfield); in hort. Bogor cult. (Anderson); іп hb. Hook. Java (а cl. Miquel 
missa) : fructus non vidi. 
Miquel's specimen certainly belongs here, and, though named by him Barringtonia 
Vriesii, does not correspond with the species published under that name by Teysmann 
and Bennenden. Тһе details given by Blume are extremely short. Не describes it asa 
tree 80 feet high; its leaves are 5-72 in. long, 2-23 in. broad, on petioles 8-4 lines long. 
This is one of the rare instances hitherto known in the family where a paniculated 
inflorescence occurs; this is accompanied by other characters, showing it to form a 
distinct genus: the rhachis is 4-10 inches long, with 4 alternate branches somewhat 
distant, 2-3 in. long in one specimen, while in another these branches аге fasciculated 
or alternate upon а common peduncle 2 in. long; each branch has many projecting 
alternate thick nodules 1-2 lines long and 1-2 lines apart, each supporting a sessile flower 
 artieulated upon it: the ovary is like a pedicel, 1 line long, } line thick; the cupular 
calyx is 2 lines long, 3 lines broad; the petals are И horizontally ex- 
tended, two of iini! 9 lines, the others 8 lines long, and 41 lines broad ; the outer stamens, 
1 inch long, are united at their base into a tube 24 lines long, the inner ones are almost - 
free to the base, finely capillary, 3 lines long, and without anthers. 
