288 XLVIH. MYRTACES. [ Barringtonia. 
adhering at the base to the staminal cup. Stamens numerous, in several series, 
shortly united at the base into a ring or cup ; anthers small, with parallel 
cells opening ice iei Ovary inferior, with an annular disk on the top 
bens the stamens, 2- to 4-celled, with 2 to 8 ovules in each cell, horizontal 
or pendulous, in "en TOWS; style filiform with a small stigma. 
ovoid or oblong, hard and fibrous, indehiscent. Seed usually solitary, with a 
thiek testa; embryo unc ivided, consisting of a thick woody stratum, and a 
more or less distinct pith in the centre. — Tree es. age alternate, usually 
crowded at the ends of the branches, penniveined and not dotted. Flowers 
in terminal or lateral spikes or racemes. — Bracts small ze: deciduous. 
The genus is confined to the tropical regions of the Old World. The Australian — 
wed both widely dispersed over the Indian Archipelago, and one is also common 
Leaves often — lft.long. Flowers E in short racemes. Sta- 
men 
n. long. Fruit large 1. B. speciosa. 
— uuder ris in . long. fires small, in long : racemes. "Stamens 
3 to 4 line es long. Fruit small . . 2. B. acutangula. 
E speci - DC. Prod. iii. 288. Be: handsome tree. 
Leaves sessile, obovate, ie: attaining more than 1 ft. in ‘length. Flowers 
long. Calyx deeply divided into 2 oval-oblong concave almos f 
like segments, above 1 in. long. Petals from half as long again to twice as 
long as the calyx-segmen Stamens very numerous, red, 
: e to 4 in. long 
Ovary imperfectly 4-celled, with about 6 ovules in cadi cell. Fruit large, 
[STER 4-angled, crowned by the persistent calyx-lobes.—Wight, Ic. 
send epe unes ag B. Gë trata, by R. Br., from bach Lizard — Banks and 
Solander, have the "lige ne nearly o ot B. e osa, bu t the flowers in long es like those E 
of B. acutangula. de ient but they appear to be tege: ‘in aie between : 
those of B. am Zen B. acu 
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lines long. ` Calyx-tube ovoid-globose, about 1 line long; lobes 4, "M 
longer than the tube, orbicular. Petals about twice as long as the cay 
tube. Stamens not much longer than the petals. Ovary 2-cglled, rat 
pendulous ovules in each cell. Fruit oblong, tr ut 1 in. long oF, si. 289. 
more.— Wight and Arn. Prod. 333; Stravadium rub rum, DC. Brod. H p 
N. Australia. Rivulets of w sega range and Fitzmaurice river, E Ass the ovary : 
mon in most parts of India as well as in the EE REG I find but 2 cells to 
both in the Indian and the Gehéch specime 
45. CAREYA, Roxb. " 
Calyx-tube thiek, turbinate or ovoid, not produced above the en 
