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Eugenia malaccensis, Linn. 



Eugenia malaccensis, Linn. ; Hook, f., Fl. Brit. Ind., ii. p. 471. 



Jambosa domestica, Eurnph., Herb. Amb., i. p. 121, t. 37, excl. quib. varr. fide Miq., Fl. Ind. Bat., 



i. 1, p 411. 

 Jambosa malaccensis, DC, Prodr., iii. p. 286 ; Bot. Mag., t. 4108. 



Arrou. — The specimen is hardly sufficient to enable us to be certain of its being this 

 species, which, however, is very variable ; it is generally cultivated in the Archipelago, as 

 well as in other tropical countries. It is also an indigenous wild plant in the 

 A rchipelago. 



Barringtonia speciosa, Linn. f. 



Barringtonia speciosa, Linn, f., Suppl., p. 312; Forst., Char. Gen., t. 38; Bentb., Fl. Austr., iii. 

 p. 288; Hook, f., Fl. Brit. Ind., ii. p. 507; Miq., Fl. Ind. Eat., i. 1, p. 485 ; Jouan in Mem. 

 Soc. Sci. Nat. Cherbourg, xi., 1865, pp. 108, 135, 139, et 149; Seem., Fl. Vit., p. 82. 



Arrou. — A maritime tree attaining gigantic proportions in some parts of the Archi- 

 pelago. It is now generally spread in the region, and it extends to the shores of the 

 Malayan Peninsula, and some other parts of India, though Beddome (Forester's Manual of 

 Botany for Southern India, p. 112) believes it is not wild in the Western Peninsula, 

 though common enough on the coast of Ceylon. It is also common in Madagascar, the 

 Seychelles, Mauritius, and westward to the Comoro Islands, but hitherto it has not been 

 found on the coast of Continental Africa. Southward it reaches North Australia, and 

 it is found throughout Polynesia, being one of the first plants, according to Jouan, to 

 invade the coral islands ; the very large, square, light, fibrous fruit being one of those most 

 commonly and abundantly conveyed from place to place by oceanic currents. It is not 

 recorded from the Sandwich Islands ; but Mr J. S. Arundel lately collected it in the remote 

 Ducie Island ; and it has also been sent to the Kew Herbarium from Diego Garcia, Chagos 

 Islands. Barringtonia does not reach the American continent. 



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 Barringtonia racemosa, Bume. 



Barringtonia racemosa, Blume; Miq., Fl. Ind. Bat., i. 1, p. 486; Seem., Fl. Vit., p. 83; Hook, f., 

 Fl. Brit. Ind., ii. p. 507 ; Oliver, Fl. Trop. Afr., ii. p. 438. 



Arrotj ; Wetter. — This is also a seaside tree, as indeed are all the species of the genus, 

 and is nearly as widely dispersed as Barringtonia speciosa ; but it is not reported from 

 Australia, and it is less generally diffused in Polynesia. On the other hand, it is commoner 

 on the Indian coast, and it is abundant, in some parts at least, on the eastern coast of 

 Tropical Africa. The fruit of Barringtonia racemosa is much smaller than that of Bar- 

 ringtonia speciosa. There is an imperfect specimen of a third species of this genus from 

 Timor Laut. 



