140 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



9. Barringtonia fusiformis, King n. sp. A small tree, 10 to 20 

 feet high ; young branches slender, paberulous, pale when dry. Leaves 

 membranous, oblanceolate or obovate-obloug, narrowed to the cordate 

 base, sessile or sub-sessile ; the apex obtuse or acute ; the edges 

 remotely serrate becoming almost entire when old ; main-nerves 12 to 

 16 pairs, curved, ascending, slightly prominent on the lower surface 

 when dry ; length 4 to 8 in. ; breadth 1'4 to 2*4 in. ; petiole (if present) 

 only '05 in. long. Racemes axillary, very slender, pendulous, much 

 exceeding the leaves, lax, minutely rusty-pubescent, 1 to 2 feet long, 

 surrounded at the base by a w^horl of lanceolate persistent bracts '5 in. 

 long. Flowers *4 in. across, distant, on slender pedicels 1 in. long; the 

 bracteole at the base of each pedicel lanceolate, deciduous. Calyx 3 in. 

 long ; the tube obconic, densely rusty-puberulous ; the teeth 4, broad, 

 rounded, less puberulous than the tube. Petals slightly longer than 

 the calyx, broadly obovate. Stamens three times as long as the petals. 

 Fruit fusiform, tapering almost equally to each end ; the apex crowned 

 by the small calyx, 4-angled, deciduously rusty-pubescent, 2*25 in. long 

 and only '5 in. in diam. 



Perak : Scortechini ; King's Collector 10388, 10643, 10094. 



The very long flower pedicels and the narrowly fusiform fruit distinguish this 

 from all the other species. 



10. Barringtonia acutangula, G-aertn. Frucfc. II, 97, 1. 101. A gla- 

 brous tree, 25 to 50 feet high ; young branches thin, pale-grey, glabrous. 

 Leaves obovate-oblong, or cuneate-elliptic, much narrowed to the shortly 

 petiolate base, the apex broad rounded or subacute, the edges minutely 

 denticulate or cuneate : main-nerves 10 to 13 pairs, spreading, not 

 prominent ; length 2 to 5 in. ; breadth I'l to 2 in. ; petiole '15 to -2 in. 

 Bacemes much exceeding the leaves, slender, pendulous, many-flowered, 

 from 6 to 15 in. long. Flowers '3 or '4 in. across, in slender pedicels 

 from 05 to '25 in. long. Calyx with short tube and 4 rounded, regular, 

 ciliate teeth. Petals small, under 25 in, long. Filaments about three 

 times as long. Fruit oblong or oblong-ovoid, truncate at both ends, 

 crowned by the small calyx, glabrous, boldly but bluntly quadrangular, 

 1-25 to 1-5 in. long. Roxb. Fl. Ind. II. 635 ; Blume Bijdr. 1097 ; W. & A. 

 Prodr. 333; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, Pt. 1, 488; Dalz. & Gibs. Bomb. 

 Fl. 95; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 204; Brand. For. Fl. 235; Kurz For. Fl. 

 Burm. I, 497 ; Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. 11, 508; Trimen Flora 

 Ceylon II, 191. Stravidium ruhrum^ DC. I.e. 289. S. acutangulum, 

 Miers in Trans. Linn. Soc. Ser. II, Bot. I, 80 t. 17 figs. 1 to 14. S. ohtus- 

 angulum and S. Rheedii, Blume in Van Houtte Flore des Serres VII, 

 24; Miers I.e. Eugenia acutangula, Linn. Sp. PI. 673. 



I include this species as Malayan with some hesitation. Most of the Malayan 

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