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teavea and rather larger flowers ; the other with leaves oblanceolate, more Blen- 

 der spike-rachis and smaller flowers, but the two pass into each other. 



7. Barringtonia sumatrana, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 315. A 

 glabrous tree ; young branches pale, as thick as a ^ose-quill. Leaves 

 coriaceous, elliptic or oblong-elliptic tapering much to the base, the 

 apex shortly and rather abruptly acuminate, the edges obscurely serrate 

 or entire, slightly wavy somewhat recurved when dry ; upper surface 

 shining when dry, the lower dull and paler, both minutely reticulate; 

 main-nerves 9 to 12 pairs, thin but prominent; length 4"5 to 7'5 in. ; 

 breadth 1*4 to 3 in. ; petiole '75 to 2 in., thickened at the base. Spikes 

 axillary and terminal, pendulous, angled, glabrous^ 9 to 15 in. long, not 

 thickening in fruit. Flowers numerous, more than 1 in. long and nearly 

 as much across, sessile. Calyx '5 in. long ; the tube infundibuliforni 

 acutely 4-angled ; the lobes half as long as the tube, broadly ovate, con- 

 cave, spreading. Petals broadly oblong, very blunt, '65 in. long. Stamens 

 •75 in. long or more. Style slender, 1-6 in. long. Frtiit oblong, some- 

 what tapered to the base, less so to the calyx-crowned apex, acutely 

 4-angled, smooth and shining, 1*75 in. long, and '65 in. in diam. 



Singapore : Ridley 277, 2056. Sumatra : Miguel (Herb. Bogor 

 4536). Celebes: Beccari. 



8. Barringtonia musiformts. King n. sp. A large tree, 60 to 80 feet 

 high; young branches as thick as the fore finger, brownish, glabrous. 

 Leaves thinly coriaceous, entire, or obscurely crenate towards the apex, 

 oblong-oblanceolate or narrowly elliptic-oblong, much tapered to the 

 long slender petiole, the apex shortly acuminate ; main-nerves 8 to 12 

 pairs, curved, ascending, not conspicuous ; length 5 to 10 in. ; breadth 

 1*75 to 3*25 in. ; petiole '75 to 2'25 in. thickened at the base. Spikes 

 axillary, suberect, 12 to 14 in. long, stout, striate, thickening to '6 in. 

 in diameter or more in fruit, the cicatrices of the fallen flowers very 

 prominent, scurfy-puberulous. Flowers large, sessile. Calyx campanu- 

 late, 1*25 in. in diam. at the mouth, densely but minutely rusty-pubes- 

 cent ; the tube subcylindric, only '2 in. long ; the 4 lobes large, ovate- 

 rotund, blunt, '75 in. long. Petals 4, concave, rotund, scurfy outside. 

 Fruit narrowly-oblong, 4-angled, sub-truncate at each end, the upper 

 crowned by the calyx and the 2 inch long style, minutely pubescent, 

 4 or 5 in. long, and 1 to 1*5 in. thick. 



Perak : King's Collector 5746, 6154. 



I have seen no expanded flowers of this as the collected specimens are either 

 in bud or in fruit. Its nearest allies are B. augusta, Kurz, B. pterocarpa, Kurz, 

 and Doromma magnificum Miers, but all these have much smaller flowers and their 

 leaf petioles are very short. The ripe fruit of this resembles in shape a small 

 hanana, but the endocarp and pericarp have a very different texture, being in this 

 densely fibrous. 



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