634 POLVANDRiA MONOGYNiA. BarringtoTiia. 



celled, one-seeded. Embryo simple, inverse, length of the 

 ample perisperm. 



1. B. racemosa. R. 



Leaves broad-lanceolar, serrulate. Racemes pendulous. 

 Calyces from two to three-parted. Fruit ovate, four-sided, 

 with rounded angles. 



Eugenia racemo^a. Linn. sp. pi. ed. Willd. 2. 966. 



Samstravadi. Hheed. Mai. 4. t. G. 



Biitonica sylvestris alba. Ruynph. Amb. 3. t. 116. 



A stout timler tree, a native of the Molucca Islands, 

 the Delta of the Ganges, Malabar, &.c. In the Botanic 

 garden it blossoms during the cool season, and the seed 

 takes above half a year to ripen. Trunk pretty straight. 

 Branches, numerous and spreading much. Bark on the 

 younger part, a dark ash-colour; on the older scabrous, 

 and darker coloured. Leaves alternate, short-petioled, 

 broad-lanceolar, acuminate, serrulate or crenulatc ; smooth 

 on both sides; from tliree to twelve inches Ion:;, and from 

 one to four broad. Racemes sometimes terminal, some- 

 times from the lar^e branches, pendulous, coloured and 

 smooth. Flowers remote, short-pedicel led, large, pale 

 • pink. Bractes minute, caducous. Caly.x superior, two 

 or three-parted, smooth, permanent. Petals four, insert- 

 ed on the base of the short tube which is formed by the base 

 of the filaments united, and dropping off with them iu one 

 body, oblong, smooth, margins revolute. Filaments numer- 

 ous, longer tluin the petals. Germ inferior, turbinate, two- 

 celled, w ith several ovula in each attached to the middle of 

 the partition, as in Eugenia. Siyle longer than the stami- 

 na. Stigma siu\^\Q. F;-m?7 drupaceous, of the size of a large 

 .pullet's egg, and not unlike one in shape, only somewhat 

 four-sided, pretty smooth on the outside, olive green within, 

 , the flesh rather spongy and brown, one-celled. Seed solita- 

 iiy, ovate-oljlong. Integuments scarcely any other than the 

 smooth, dark brown surface of the cell of thepericarpium. 



