Barringtonia. polyandria monogynia. 633 



ral fascicles, male and female hermaphrodite mixed. Germ 

 three-celled. Berry oval (size of a s'.nall apph ) from one 

 to three-seeded. From Ceyluii the seeds of this very ele- 

 gant, straight, uncommonly ramous tree, were sent by 

 General Hay Macdowall to the liot;mic garden at Cal- 

 cutta, under the Cingalese name Anibul Ghoorka, where 

 in from seven to ten years tlie trees began to blossom 

 abundantly during: the whole of the hot season, but did 

 not produce perfectly ripe fruit until the month of July 

 1812, when they were fully ten years old. 



3. X. picforius. R. Corom. pi 2. N. 196. 



Leaves opposite, linear-lanceolar. Flowers in lateral 

 fascicles. Berry ovate-pointed. 



Beng. and Hind. Dampel. 



Teling. Iwara memadee. 



Cing. Rata ghorka. 



A native of the mountainous districts in India. Flow- 

 ers during the hot season. Fruit ripens in November and 

 December. 



This beautiful tree yields a green fruit, and a large 

 quantity of indifferent gamboge. It is truly guttiferous, 

 and but little removed in its natural habit, from the Gar^ 

 qinias. 



BARRINGTONIA, Schreh. gen. n. 1150. 

 Gen. Char, Calyx simple, from two to/our-cleft, per- 

 manent. Carol one or four-pe tailed, inserted on the short 

 tube of the stamina. Germ inferior, two celled. (4. Ga;rt ) 

 cells many seeded; attachment interior.* Berry dry, one- 



* Or it may be called one-petalled, and the stamina inserted on 

 the short tube of the corol, as in Eugenia the germ has two cells, 

 with many ovula in each, and exactly as in the real GittlilercE, the 

 embryo is perfectly simple (monocotylodonous) and furnished with 

 an ample perispenn. 



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