634 POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Barringtonia. 
celled, one-seeded. Embryo simple, inverse, length of the 
ample perisperm. 
1. B. racemosa: R. : ' ; 
Leaves broad-lanceolar, serrulate. Racemes pendulous, 
Calyces from two to three-parted. Fruit ovate, nants 
mith rounded angles. 
. Eugenia, racemosa. Linn. sp. pl. ed. Willd. 2. 966, 
. Samstravadi.. Rheed. Mal. 4. t. 6. 
Butonica sylvestris. alba. Rumph.. Amb. 3. t. 116. 
A stout timber tree, a native of the Molucca Islands, 
the Delta of the Ganges, Malabar, &c. In the Botanic 
garden it blossoms during the cool season, and the seed 
takes above half a year to ripen. Trunk pretty straight. _ 
Branches, numerous and spreading much. : Bark on the 
younger part, a dark ash-colour; on the older scabrous, 
and darker coloured. Leaves alternate, short-petioled, 
broad-lanceolar, acuminate, serrulate or crenulate; smooth 
on both sides; from three to twelve inches long, and from 
one to four broad. Racemes sometimes terminal, some- 
times from the large branches, pendulous, coloured and 
smooth. . Flowers remote, short-pedicelled, large, pale 
pink... Bractes minute, caducous. | Calyx superior, two 
or three-parted, smooth, permanent. Petals four, insett- 
ed on the base of the short tube which is formed by the base 
of the filaments united, and dropping off with them in one 
body, oblong, smooth, margins revolute. Filaments numet- 
ous, longer than the petals. Germ inferior, turbinate, two- 
celled, with several ovula in each attached to the middle of 
the partition, as in Eugenia, Style longer than the stami- 
‘na. Stigmasimple. Fruit drupaceous, of the size of a large 
pullet’s egg, and not unlike one in shape, only somewhat 
four-sided, pretty smooth on the outside, olive green within, 
the flesh rather spongy and brown, one-celled. Seed solita- 
ry, ovate-oblong. Integuments scarcely any other than the 
smooth, dark brown Um of the pelle ericarpium. © 
