Barringtonia.~\ LIX. MTBTACEJ; (BAKRINGTONIEJ: by C. B. Clarke.) 507 



duous. Calyx-tube scarcely produced above the ovary ; lobes 2-4 valvate, or 

 3-5 imbricate. Petals 4, rarely 5, much imbricate, 'somewhat adnate at the 

 base to the staminal tube. Stamens very many, in several series, connate shortly 

 into a tube at the base ; filaments filiform, long, all bearing anthers. Ovary 

 inferior, 2-4-celled, crowned with an annular disc ; style long, simple, stigma 

 small ; ovules 2-8 in each cell, pendulous. Fruit fibrous or somewhat berried, 

 globose ellipsoid or quadrangular, crowned with the calyx, by abortion 1-seeded. 

 Seed ovoid or ellipsoid, without albumen ; embryo large, exhibiting two layers, 

 cotyledons nearly obsolete. DISTRIB. Species 20 ; in tropical Asia, Africa, 

 Australia and Polynesia, often near the sea. 



SECT. Butonica, Juss. (gen.). Calyx valvate, 2-3- (rarely 4-) lobed. 

 (BARKINGTONIA, AGASTA and BTJTONICA of Miers). 



* Leaves entire. 



1. B. speciosa, Forst. Char. Gen. PL 76, t. 38; leaves large obovate, 

 petals 2-2 in. Linn. f. Suppl 312 ; DC. Prodr. iii. 288 ; Roxb. Fl. 2nd. ii. 

 636 ; Wall. Cat. 3632, excl. B. ; Blume Bijd. 1096 ; W. $ A. Prodr. 333 ; 

 Wight Ic. t. 547 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 485 ; Miers in Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 ser' ii. Bot. i. 56, t. 10 ; Kurz For. Fl. i. 496. B. asiatica, Kurz in Jtwrn. As. 

 Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 70. B. ? macrophylla, Miq. I. c. 491. Mammea asiatica, 

 Linn. Sp. PI. 731. Agasta splendida, asiatica and indica, Miers I. c. pp. 60-64, 

 tt. 11, 12. 



CEYLON, Thwaites (Southern DECCAN PENINSULA probably not wild ex Beddome) ; 

 ANDAMANS, Kurz ; SINCAPOBE, T. Anderson ; on sea-coasts. DISTEIB. The shores of 

 Malaya, Australia and Polynesia. 



Tree 30-50 ft., glabrous. Leaves often 15 by 7 in., obtuse, narrowed at the base, 

 quite entire, sessile. Raceme short, erect ; lower pedicels with a leaf-like bract, 

 upper bracts much smaller. Calyx closed over the bud; lobes 2, l\ in., oblong. 

 Petals white. Ovary 4-celled ; ovules about 6 in each cell. Style often exceeding 

 4 in. Fruit 3 by 3 in., quadrangular or nearly ovoid, by abortion 1-seeded. Mr. 

 Miers founds a second genus on a drawing of Forster which represents the fruit as 4- 

 celled. But the drawing appears to be taken from the fruit of B. speciosa, the very 

 anomalous embryo having misled Forster to sketch in faintly four septa. 



* Leaves crenate-denticulate. 



"2. B. racemosa, Blume ; DC t Prodr. iii. 288 ; racemes pendulous pedi- 

 cels | 5- in., calyx-tube in the bud broadly funnel-shaped segments 2-3, fruit ovoid. 

 Roxb. FL Ind. ii. 634; Wall. Cat. 3634; W. $ A. Prodr. 333; Wight Ic. t. 

 152, including fruit ; Bot. Mag. t. 3831 ; Dalz. 8f Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 94 ; Kurz 

 For. Fl. i. 496. B. speciosa, Wall. Cat. 3632 B. B. alba and rubra, Miq. Fl. 

 Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 487. Eugenia racemosa, Linn. Sp. PL 673. Stravadium 

 album and rubrum, DC. Prodr. iii. 289. Butonica racemosa and alba, Miers in 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. ii. Bot. i. 65, 66, t. 13, fig. 1-17. B. rubra and inclyta, 

 Miers I. c. pp. 70, 71, t. 14, fig. 1-3, 19. Rheede Hoi't. Mai. iv. t. 6. 



On sea-coasts. CONCAN; Stocks. QUILON, Wight No. 1064. From the SOONDEB* 

 BUN to MALACCA ; Wallich, Kurz, Griffith, Maingay. ANDAMANS ; Kurs. DISTRIB, 

 Malaya and Polynesia. 



An evergreen tree attaining 50 ft., glabrous. Leaves 10 by 3 in., cuneate-oblong, 

 lightly crenate-denticulate ; petiole -J in. Eacemes 12-18 in., pendulous, flowers 

 distant, pedicels ^- in. Calyx-lobes f in., ovate. Style often 1^ in. Fruit If by 

 1 in., ovoid, obscurely quadrangular below when quite ripe ; in ripening attaining 



