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BARRINGTONIA. 657 
Ovarium omnino inferum, 4-loculare, oyulat. cuique loculo, 
ex apicem fere pendent. foramine hilum prope supero, stylus 
circiter longit. stamine sanguineo. Stigma terminal Mar 
majusculum. Fructus vide contra. 
Fructus subbaccatus conoideus penduli pauci in racemo 
quoque basi alis suboctonis medium versus evanidis, apice 
calyce immulato connivent urceolo stylique basi coronat. 
viridis unilocularis endocarpio fibroso semini satis forme 
adherent. 
Semen unicum subovat. ovi (pullet) magnitud. 
Tegument l-submembranacea tenue basis pluribus latis, 
€ chalaza subradiant apicem geometri seminis fere attingent 
in concavitat. embryonis superfice quasi receptis. 
Embryo conferrumin. superficei sulcis parum profundis 
€xarat. squamulis ut videtur nullis. 
The original axis of ovarium is in B. racemos, pushed 
to one side, laying close to the inner wall of endocorp, and 
is to be easily mistaken for a linear raphe-like placenta from 
the apex of which the seed hangs, about the apex of the seed, 
a$ in that species the abortive ovula are to be found. 
Systema centrale subovutum indistinct. | 
The seed of Barringtonia is sufficiently remarkable, I ima- 
Bine the central part represents above, the radicle ; below, the 
Plumule, and I also imagine that all the parts between the 
lowest scales of the superficies and the radicle is adherent 
cotyledon, or is it an instance of an immense radicle, 
and two or several minute cotyledons (represented by scales 
ànd an inconspicuous plumula.) 
' To this, which is suggested by the radicular central -sys- 
tem being internal, not reaching the superficies, there is a 
great ólinetico i in the irregularity in number and situation of 
the 
scales, The internality may arise from the cotyledons 
a being produced into basilar auricula es and enclosing 
the root, as occasionally happens. 
The development only will clear up the point, for even if 
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