338 Materials for a Flora of tJie Malayan Peninsula. 



•2 in. long. Petals oblong sub-acute, 1 in. long. Filamejits twice ^s 

 long as the petals. Fruit broadly-ovoid or elliptic, smooth, not angled 

 or only slightly so, crowned by the small calyx-lobes, 1"5 to 2 in. long 

 and about 1*35 in. in diam. Clarke in Hook. fil. PI. Br. Ind. II, 50^ 

 (excl. syn. B. pendula^ Kurz and Boxomma pendula, Miers). B. cylirv- 

 drostachya. Griff. Notul. IV, 655. B. sarcostachys, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, 

 Pt. 1, 490. Stravidium sareostachys, Blume in Van Houtte PI. des 

 Serres, VII, 24. 8. acuminatum, Wall. Cat. 3G36. Boxomma macros- 

 tachyum, cylindrostachyumj acuminatum^ Miers in Trans. Linn. Soc, Ser. 

 II, Bot. I, 104, 100, 102. Careya macrostachya, Jack in Mai. Misc. I^ 

 47 ; DC. Prodr. Ill, 295. 



Malacca: Maingay (K.D. 763); Gri^th (K.D. 2421): Penang: 

 Curtis 1581. Negri Sembilan: Eidley 1852. Perak: Scortechini (with- 

 out No.) ; Wray 1299, 2410, 3136, 3642, 3635 ; King's Collector ^402, 3779, 

 4136, 10075, 10206, 10615. Distrib.— Borneo, Burmah, Griffith; 

 Gallatty. 



This is allied to B. pendula, Kurz — a rare species from Southern Burma, 

 originally described by Grifl&th as Careya pendula (Notulse IV, 661). That 

 species, however, has narrower leaves than this with fewer nerves ; the calyx-tube ia 

 elongate, the stamens are only about one inch long ; and the fruit is narrowly oblong, 

 boldly 4-angled, more than 2 in. long and only about '65 in. in diam. There is an 

 excellent drawing of this plant with full analyses of the fiowers in the Herb. Kew, 

 which was made from living specimens by the Rev. C. Parish. Th«e species has 

 been reduced in Hooker's Flora of British India to B. macrostachya from which it 

 diflfers in the points above noted. 



6. Barringtonia Scortechinii, King n. sp. A glabrous ttee^ 

 50 to 60 feet high; young branches slender, pale-brown, glabrous. 

 Leaves thinly coriaceous, elliptic-oblong to oblanceolate-oblong, tapering 

 (often very mucb) to the petiole ; the apex acute or shortly acuminate;, 

 the margins entire or obscurely and minutely dentate ; main-nerves 

 6 or 7 pairs, spreading, curved ; length 3^ to 6*5 in. ; breadth 

 1-5 to 2 5 in. ; petiole '5 to "8 in. Spikes lateral, pendulous, 6 to 18 iit. 

 long, glabrous, rather slender but slightly thickening with age. Flowers 

 numerous, 1*5 to 2 in. long, narrow. Calyx-tube bracteate at the base, 

 glabrous, obconic, 4-angled, '25 in. long ; the 4 lobes shorter than the tube,, 

 broad, rounded. Petals oblong, blunt, '75 in. long. Filaments 1*5 to 2 in. 

 long. Ovary 3-celled (usually). Fruit oblong, somewhat tapered but 

 truncate at each end : the apex mamillate crowned by the small calyx- 

 lobes, smooth, 3 in. long and 1 in. diam. 



Peeak: Scortechini 237, 395, 1674, 2020; Wray 2087; King's 

 Collector 3598, 3854, 6252 ; Curtis 1296. 



There are two distinct forms und'er this species; one with ablong- elliptic 



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