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B. racemosa. 



B. speciosa. 



Diagrams illustrating the structure of the growing seeds of Barringtonia 

 (two-thirds the natural size). That of B. speciosa represents a seed 

 removed from a fruit displaying the young plant protruding two or three 

 inches. That of B. racemosa represents the lower end of the seedling 

 when the plant is eighteen inches high. 



rt = the exorhiza. 



^ = the neorhiza invested by the medullary sheath. 



