BARRINGTONIE^E. 



BARRINGTONIEiE. 



BARRINGTONIA. 



Calyx-tube ovate : limb 2-3-4-partite ; lobes ovate, obtuse, 

 concave, persistent. Petals 4, coriaceous, attached to the ring 

 at the base of the stamens. Stamens numerous, in several rows : 

 filaments filiform, long, distinct, combined at the base into a 

 short ring, all bearing anthers. Ovary 2-4-celled, surmounted 

 by an urceolus sheathing the base of the style : ovules 2-6 in 

 each cell. Style filiform. Stigma simple. Fruit fleshy, more 

 or less 4-angled, crowned by the limb of the calyx, 1-celled. 

 Seed solitary. Embryo large, fleshy, not separable into cotyle- 

 dons and radicles, formed of 2 concentric homogeneous combined 

 layers. — Trees. Leaves crowded about the ends of the branches, 

 opposite or verticillate, obovate, quite entire or crenated or ser- 

 rated, without pellucid dots. Flowers racemose. W. and. A. 



161. B. racemosa Roxb.fl. ind. ii. 634. DC.prodr. iii. 288. 

 W. and Am. i. 333. — Eugenia racemosa Linn. sp. 673. Sam- 

 stravadi Rheede iv. t. 6. Stravadium racemosum Jussieu. — 

 Jungle of Malabar. 



Leaves cuneate-oblong, acuminated, serrulated or crenulated. Flowers 

 (large) forming a long pendulous raceme; pedicels scarcely so long as 

 the flower, with a single bract at the base. Calyx 2-3-cleft. Ovary 

 2-celled ; ovules attached to the middle of the dissepiment. Fruit 

 ovate, bluntly 4-angled ; endocarp scarcely separating from the epicarp. 

 W. and A. — Root slightly bitterbut not unpleasant. It is considered 

 by the Hindoo doctors valuable on account of its aperient, deobstruent, 

 and cooling properties. The bark is reputed to possess properties 

 similar to those of Cinchona. Ainslie. 



GUSTAVIA. 



Tube of the calyx turbinate; the limb entire or 4-6-8-lobed. 

 Petals 4-6-8, ovate, nearly equal. Stamens 00, monadelphous 

 at the base, and somewhat adnate to the claws of the petals. 

 Ovary 4-6-celled ; ovules numerous ; style short ; stigma obtuse. 

 Capsules ovate or subglobose, 3-6-celled, coriaceous, indehi- 

 scent,with an umbilicated eye, formed of the remains of the calyx. 

 Seeds a few in each cell, ovate, with a coriaceous integument, 

 suspended by a long plaited cord to a central column. Embryo 

 fleshy ; cotyledons 2, large, equal, plano-convex ; radicle obtuse, 

 scarcely prominent. — Trees. Leaves alternate, large, not dot- 

 ted, serrated or entire, smooth. Racemes terminal, few-flowered. 

 Flowers white, showy, with a pair of bracts. DC. 



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