Barringtonia. POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 633 
ral fascicles, maleand female hermaphrodite mixed. Germ 
three-celled. Berry oval (size of a small apple) from one 
to three-seeded. From Ceylon the seeds of this very ele- 
gant, straight, uncommonly ramous tree, were sent by 
General Hay Macdowall to the Botanic garden at Cal- 
cutta, under the Cingalese name Ambul Ghoorka, where 
in from seven to ten years the trees began to blossom 
abundantly during the whole of the hot season, but did 
not produce perfectly ripe fruit until the month of July 
1812, when they were fully ten years old. 
3. X. -ptotdnsiee: R. Corom. ph 2 N. 196. 
Leaves opposite, linear-lanceolar. Flowers in lateral 
fascicles. Berry ovate-pointed. 
~ Beng. and Hind. Dampel. 
Teling. Iwara memadee. 
. Cing. Rata ghorka. ’ 
_ A native of the mountainous districtsin India. Flow- 
ers during the hot season. Fruit ripens in November and 
-- December. | 
This beautifal tree yields a green fruit, and a large 
quantity of indifferent gamboge. It is truly guttiferous, 
and: but a femoved 3 in its natural habit, from the Gar- 
retnitts. © PPA, ee 
id + gt eas 
- BARRING TONIA. Schreb. gen. n. cage 
Gen: CxarR. Calyx simple, from two to four-cleft, per- 
manent, Corol one or four-petalled, inserted on the short 
-tube of the stamina. Germ inferior, two-celled, (4..Geert.) 
«cells many seeded; attachment interior.* Berry dry, one- 
“"* Or it may be called one-petalled, and the stamina inserted on 
the short tube of the corol, as in Eugenia the germ has two cells, 
with many ovula in each, and exactly as in the real Guttifere, the 
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