Barringtonia. POLYANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 635 
Perisperm conform to the seed, firm, fleshy and white. 
Embryo simple, (as in the Guttiferous seeds) lanceolate, 
length of the perisperm, inverse ; when vegetation begins, 
the plumula issues from the base of the fruit, and this 
part (the simple embryo) forms the ligneous centre. of 
the ‘shoots, while the perisperm furnishes the cortical 
part andthe leaves. Radicle superior, (that is, from the 
apex of the perisperm and embryo, as the plumula is 
from the base) no appearance of any other cotyledon 
or cotyledons than the perisperm and embryo... The 
seeds of Barringtonia acutangala have exactly the 
same conformation, In neither have I observed any 
thing that can be called a cotyledon except the copious 
perisperm which performs the same office, for by the 
elongation of its two extremities, it furnishes the bark 
and foliage of the young plant, while the opposite end 
of the embryo or central part supplies the wood and 
pith ; it is exactly the same in the several species of 
Garcinia and Xanthochymus examined by me, only 
there the central portion, which 1 call the embryo, is ve- 
ry slender, and the permanent toot proceeds from the 
base of the plumula as in the plants usually called mo- 
nocotyledonous, while that from the upposite end of the 
embryo soon persian or remains shlender Esomepated to 
the other. .- ‘ i 
ids agi ny R. oR Una 
Leaves cuneate-obovate, serrulate. Racemes pendu- 
lous. Calyx four-parted. Fruit oblong, four-sided, with 
the angles sharp. - a. 
. Tsjeria samstravadi. Rheed. Mal. 4. t. 7: 
Eugenia acutangula. Linn. sp. pl. ed. Willd. sete 966,. 
_ Stravidium,. Juss. gen. pl. 361. 
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