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LVIII. MYRTACE^. 



[Pseudo-Eugenia. 



aceous, elliptic-lanceolate bluntly caudate (drying black) 2 in. long 

 (tail -5 in.), -6 in. wide; petioles -i in. long, slender. Peduncles 

 •5 in. long with 3 or 4 short branches, each bearing 3 minute greenish 

 white flowers -02 in. long. Hab. Woods; not rare in the south. 

 Singapore, Bukit Timah. Johor, Bukit Banang. Selangor, Sungei 

 Buluh (Foxworthy). Perak (Scortechini) ; Tapah. 



10. BARRINGTONIA, Forst. 



Trees or shrubs, generally growing in tidal mud or sand, close to 

 the sea. Leaves alternate, crowded at the branch ends, entire or 

 crenate. Flowers in long terminal and lateral pendulous racemes 

 or spikes, large or small, pink or white. Calyx-tube turbinate, 

 closed in bud and splitting into 2 or 3 lobes (§ Butonica) or 3 to 5 

 imbricate lobes (§ Stravadium). Petals 4 or 5, falUng off very 

 quickly. Stamens numerous, long, connate at the base, white or 

 pink. Ovary 2- to 4-celled with an annular disc ; style filiform. 

 Fruit large, fibrous or somewhat pulpy, 4-angled, or rounded, 

 oblong, i-seeded. Species 25, Africa, Asia, Polynesia. Malay 

 name for genus, Putat. 



i. Butonica. Calyx splitting into 2 to 3 lobes. 

 Racemes short, erect ; flowers 3 in. wide ; fruit 



4-angled, very large 

 Racemes sub-erect; floAvers under i in. wide; 



fruit with 8 wings at base . 

 Racemes pendulous, long; fruit ovoid 



i. Stravadium. Calyx 4-(or 3- or 5-)lobed. 

 Raceme terminal, erect ..... 



Racemes lateral, pendulous, long; flowers many. 

 Flowers over 5 in. wide, white. 



Petioles short, thick; leaves broad, elliptic- 

 oblong, 6 by 2 in. , 

 Petioles long, slender; leaves long, lanceo- 

 late; fruit ovoid, smooth. 

 Leaves rather thin; nerves prominent 

 sunk above . . . . • . 



Leaves stiff, coriaceous ; nerves incon- 

 spicuous; fruit oblong, 4-angled. 

 Fruit X75 in. long by •65 in. through; 

 shrub ...... 



Fruit 4 to 5 in. by i*5 in. ; tree . 

 Flowers small "25 in. wide, pink. 



Flowers pedicelled ; fruit fusiform ; leaves 



with blunt cordate base . 

 Flowers long-pedicelled ; leaves thin, 

 narrowed to base .... 



Flowers sessile ; fruit globose 



(i) B. speciosa 



(2) B. conoidea 



(3) B. racemosa 



(4) B. pauciflora 



(5) B. Scortechinii 



(6) B. macrostachya 



(7) B. sumatrana 



(8) B. musiformis 



(9) B. fusiformis 



[10) B. pedicellata 



(11) B. spicata 



(i) B. speciosa Forst. Char. Gen. t. 38 & t. 38A b; King, I.e. 



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Tree with stout stem, 30 to 50 ft. tall. Branches thick. Leaves 

 thinly coriaceous, obovate, tip rounded, base much narrowed, 



