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Main-nerves of leaves 8 to 12 pairs; fruit 



minutely pubescent, 4 or 5 in. long; raohis of 



spike thickening much in fruit ... ... 8. B. musiformis. 



Flowers less than '5 in. across; leaves sessile 



or with very short petioles. 



Flowers pedicelled : — 

 Fruit fusiform ... ... ... 9. B. fusiformis. 



Fruit, oblong truncate, boldly 4-angled ... 10. B. acutangula. 



Flowers sessile or nearly so ; fruit sub-globose 11. B. spicata. 



J. Barringtonia speciosa, Forst. Char. Gen. t. 38 and t. 38 A and B. 

 A glabrous tree, 30 to 50 feet high ; young branches stout, grey. Leaves 

 thinly coriaceous, obovate- oblong or obovate, with broad rounded apex 

 and much narrowed base, sessile, entire ; main-nerves about 10 pairs, not 

 prominent ; length 6 to 14 in. ; breadth 3-5 to 7 in. Panicles short 

 (4 to 8 in. long) erect, terminal, with 1 or 2 leaf-like bracts at the base, 

 few-flowered. Floivers 6 to 12, large (2*5 to 3 in. long and 5 Id. in 

 diam.), on long pedicels bracteolate at the base. Calyx with 2 large 

 oblong, nerved (2 to 4 in.) lobes '75 to 1*25 in. long, persistent. Petals 

 4, white, larger than the calyx, (2*5 in. broad) deciduous. Stamens 

 very numerous, longer than the petals but shorter than the style. Fruit 

 large, shining, quadrangular-truncate at the base, tapering to the apex 

 and crowned by the persistent calyx, bluntly 4-angled, sometimes sub- 

 ovoid and less prominently angled, 3 in. or more in breadth at the base 

 and slightly more in length ; pericarp very thick, fibrous, spongy. Seeds 

 ovoid, 2 or more in. long. Flor. des Serres IV, 409 ; Linn. f. Suppl. 312 ; 

 DC. Prodr. Ill, 288; Roxb. Fl. Ind. II, 636; Wall. Cat. 3632, excl. B ; 

 Blume Bijdr. 1096; W. & A. Prodr. 333; Wight Ic. t. 547; Miq. Fl. 

 Ind. Bat. I, Pt. 1, 485 ; Miers in Trans. Linn. Soc. Ser. II, Bot. 1, 55, t. 

 10 ; Kurz For. Fl. I, 496 ; Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 507 ; 

 Trimen Flora Ceylon II, 189. B. asiatica, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 

 1877, Pt. 2, 70. B. ? macrojphylla, Miq. I.e. 491. Mammea asiatica, Linn. 

 Sp. PI. 731. Agasta splendida^ asiatica and indica^ Miers I.e. 60-64, 

 tt. 11, 12. Butonica, Rumph Herb. Amb. Ill, t. 114. 



In all the Provinces, on the sea-coasts : Distrib. — The shores of 

 the Malay islands and British India ; also of Australia and Polynesia. 



The late Mr. Miers excluded from the gsnus Barringtonia everything except a 

 plant now known by an imperfect specimen preserved in the Banksian collection 

 and by Forster's drawings, which latter represent a 4-celled fruit. The plant here 

 described to which Forster's name had, prior to the issue of Mr. Miers' 

 monograph in the Linnaean Transactions, by common consent been given, is one of 

 three forms of the plant on which Miers founded the genus Agasta. On characters 

 largely based upon slight differences in the shape of tlie fruit, Miers distinguished 

 his three species Agaaia splendida, asiatica and indica. The latest writers on 



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