334 MYRTACEÆ. CAREYA. 
The figure of Rumphius just quoted belongs, we believe, to this species, 
although he describes the flowers as white : but be that as it may, the repre- 
-sentation of the leaves is erroneous, and in opposition to his own description, 
which indicates that they are broadest at the apex, and therefore oboyate, 
not acuminated as in the plate, and in the characters drawn up from ìt by 
Persoon and De Candolle: we cannot comprehend how these botanists can 
compare this figure with B. racemosa. Rumphius, Amb. 3. t. 115, is usually 
referred here, but of that we have considerable doubts. 
X. CAREYA. Roxb. 
Calyx-tube globose : limb 4-partite, persistent. Petals 4, ovate or oblong, 
obtuse, spreading, inserted into a hollow rim between the segments of the calyx 
and the crown of the ovary. Stamens very numerous, in several rows: fila- 
ments distinct above, united at the base into one thick fleshy ring, inserted 
into the same hollow rim with the petals, forming three circles; the exterior 
and interior of which are without anthers, the middle antheriferous. Ovary 
4-celled, surmounted by an elevated ring: ovules numerous. Style filiform. 
Stigma capitate, obscurely 4-lobed or toothed. Berry covered by the calyx 
which forms the rind, crowned with its lobes. Seeds several, nestling in and 
scattered through the pulp of the fruit. Embryo large, almond-like, not se- 
parable into cotyledons and radicle, of two concentric homogeneous layers.— 
Arborescent or herbaceous. Leaves alternate, approximated towards the 
ends of the branches, short-petioled, cuneate-obovate, between crenulated 
and serrulated, without pellucid dots. Flowers large, red or greenish yellow, 
sessile and forming a short spike or head, or pedicellate and somewhat co- 
rymbose, 
The calyx is rarely but occasionally 5-cleft, with as many petals.— This genus is so 
very much allied to the last, that, ribi the vOv A two rows of abortive 
stamens, the very numerous ovules in each cell of the ovary, and the fruit with se- 
veral seeds seattered through its pulp, we can point out no character to separate 
the two: hence we refer C. macrostachya of Jack to Barringtonia. We must, how- 
ever, remark, that ortergh describes the seeds of both genera with a simple em- 
bryo the length of an ample albumen: Gertner also describes and figures the same 
in Barringtonia : and Hamilton (in Linn. soc. trans. 15. p. 98) says of Careya arborea, 
Albumen album, forme seminis, carnosum : Embryo recta, teres utrinque acutius- 
cula, longitudine albuminis, centralis." On the ps ati hand, Blume affirms that in 
Barringtonia there is no albumen : Gartner, under B, speciosa, says that the albumen 
1s “* cum embryone arctissime conferruminatum.” Roxburgh, describing Car. 
rica, remarks, ** when kb yale commences the radicle issues from the small end of 
the seed, close to the umbilicus, and the scaly plumula from the ite end; the 
embryo furnishing the centre or ligneous part, and the perisperm E^ albumen)'the 
cortical part of he goung TR and under Barr. racemosa, ** when vegetation 
begins, the plumula issues from the base o£ the fruit, and the simple embryo forms 
the ligneous centre of the shoots, while the perisperm (or albumen) furnishes the 
cortical part and the leaves," After comparing these observations, for we regret to 
say that we have it not in our power at present to decide the point by on ae 
examination of the ripe seed, we have no doubt but the structure in both genera is 
QN, «M that the supposed albumen is part of the embryo, while no real albu. 
ex : 
,1039. (1) C. arborea (Roxb.:) arborescent: leaves obovate or oblong, 
slightly serrulate-toothed: flowers sessile in terminal short few-flowered . 
spikes: fruit broadly ovate, crowned by the erect segments of the calyx— 
Cor. 3. t. 218; fl. Ind. 2. p. 638; DC. prod. 3. p. 295; Spr. syst. 3 
p. 127 ; Ham. in Linn. soc. trans. 15. p.97; Wall! L. n. 8640; Wight! caf. — 
^ Ee Cres Coneanæ, Buch. Ham. Mysore, 3. p. 187.— Rheed. Mal. s 
The petals in this and C. spherica soon become revolute, in which state 
' they appear as if acute. d 
