Barringtonia. polyandria monogvnia. C35 



Perisperm conform to the seed, firm, fleshy and white. 

 Embryo simple, (as in the Giittiferous seeds) lanceolate, 

 length of the perisperm, inverse ; when vegetation begins, 

 the plumula issues from the base of the fruit, and this 

 part (the simple embryo) forms the ligneous centre of 

 the shoots, while the perisperm furnishes the cortical 

 part and the leaves. i?afZ<c/e superior, (that is, from the 

 apex of the perisperm and embryo, as the plumula is 

 from the base) no appearance of any other cotyledon 

 or cotyledons than the perisperm and embryo. The 

 seeds of Barringtonia acutangala have exactly the 

 same conformation. In neither have I observed any 

 thing that can be called a cotyledon except the copious 

 perisperm which performs the same oflice, for by the 

 elongation of its two extremities, it furnishes the bark 

 and foliage of the young plant, while the opposite end 

 of the embryo or central part supplies the wood and 

 pith; it is exactly the same in the several species of 

 Garcinia and Xanlhochymus examined by me, only 

 there the central portion, which 1 call the embryo, is ve- 

 ry slender, and the permanent root proceeds from the 

 base of the plumula as in the plants usually called mo- 

 nocotyledonous, while that from the opposite end of the 

 embryo soon perishes, or remains slender compared to 

 the other. 



2. B. acntangida. R. 



Leaves cuneate-obovate, seiTulate. Racemes pendu- 

 lous. Cahjx four-parted. Fruit oblong, four-sided, with 

 the angles sharp. 



Tsjeria samstravadi. Rheed. Mai. 4. t. 7. 



Eugenia aaitangida. Linn. sp. pi. ed. Willd. 2. 966. 



Stravidium. Juss. gen. pi. 361. 



Jjul, the Sanscrit name. 



Beng. H?jjm1. 



Meteor us coccineus. Lourier Cochin CTi. 499. 



B b b b 2 



