508 LIX. MYRTACE^B (BARRiNGTONiE^E by C. B. Clarke.) [Barringtonia. 



nearly its full length before one-third its full breadth ; in Maingay's examples nearly 

 ellipsoid : exocarp very thick, fibrous. 



3. B. ceylanica, Gardn. MS. ; racemes pendulous pedicels -| in., calyx- 

 tube in the bud broadly funnel-shaped segments 4 at first rounded rather than 

 ovate. B. racemosa var. 0., Thivaites Enum. 119. Butonica ceylanica, Miers 

 in. Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. ii. Bot. i. 77. 



CEYLON, south of the island abundant ; Thwaites. 



Treated by Mr. Thwaites as a var. of B. racemosa, and after specific separation by 

 Miers I.e. reduced to B. racemosa again by Kurz in Jcurn. As Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 70. 

 Butonica intermedia, Miers I. c. from New Caledonia differs by calyx-lobes 2-3, ovate. 



4. B. conoidea, Griff. Notul 656, Ic. 635, 636 fig. 1 ; racemes suberect, 

 calyx-tube in the bud carnpanulate somewhat urn-shaped, fruit ovoid with 8 

 wing-like descending processes from the base. Kurz For. FL i. 497. B. alata, 

 Wall Cat. 3633. Butonica alata, Miers in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. ii. Bot. i. 

 70, t. 14, fig. 10-15. 



MOULMEIN ; WaUich. Coast forests of TEKASSERIM ; Kurz. MALACCA ; Griffith. 



An evergreen shrub or small tree (Kurz), glabrous. Leaves 1 by 2| in., oblong, 

 narrowed downwards, at the very base cordate, crenulate-serrulate or nearly entire ; 

 petiole ^ in., thick. Raceme 4 in., lax, but erect ; pedicels j-| in., glabrous (or some- 

 what puberulous, Kurz). Calyx-tube broad at the base, .the 8 descending processes 

 often manifest in the bud as figured by Griffith. Calyx-lobes usually 2, f in., ovate. 

 Petals and style as in B. racemosa. Fruit 1^ by 1 in., conically ovoid, broadest at the 

 very base and there 8-winged ; wings produced downwards in 8 semi-cordate pro- 

 cesses. Mr. Miers 1. c. has asserted that Griffith's figures are mixed, and that part of 

 them refer really to B. alba, Miers : but Kurz has rectified this in Journ. As. Soc. 

 1877, pt. ii. 70. Griffith's figures agree more closely with the material than do 

 Miers's. 



SECT. Stravadium, Juss. (gen.). Calyx lightly imbricate, 3-5- (usually 

 4-) lobed. (STEAVADITJM and DOXOMJIA of Miers). 



* Ovary ^-celled, whole calyx less than f in. (STRAVADIUM, Miers). 



5. B. acutangula, Gaertn. Fruct. ii. 97, t. 101 ; leaves short-petioled 

 cuneate-elliptic, racemes elongate pendulous, fruit quadrangular oblong equally 

 narrowed towards and subtruncate at each end. Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 635 ; W. 8? 

 A. Prodr. 333 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. i. 488 ; Dah. $ Gibs. Bomb. FL 95; 

 Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 204 ; Brand. For. Fl. 835 ; Kurz. For. Fl. i. 497. Eugenia 

 acutangula, Linn. Sp. PL 673. Stravadium acutangulum, Miers in Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. ser. ii. Bot. i. 80. S. rubrum, Wall. Cat. 3635. S. obtusanguliim,deniissum, 

 Rheedii, globosum, Miers 1. c. pp. 81, 82, 88 with syn., and probably (from the 

 descriptions) several others of which examples authenticated by Mr. Miers have 

 not been seen. Rheede Hort. Mai. iv. t. 7. 



Throughout INDIA from the HIMALAYA to CEYLON and SINGAPORE very common ; 

 no tree is more plentiful in the plain of BENGAL. DISTRIB. Malaya ; and North- West 

 Australia (if Stravadium gracile Miers be considered the same species as by Bth. FL 

 Austral, iii. 288). 



Attaining 30-40 ft., glabrous. Leaves 5 by 2 in., minutely denticulate-crenate v 

 narrowed into the petiole \-\ in. Racemes often 1 foot, glabrous, rachis not succu- 

 lent; pedicels 0- in. Calyx-tube in the bud very short, funnel-shaped ; lobes in., 

 roundish, not longer on the fruit. Petals % in., pink. Filaments long, usually red. 

 Fruit 1-1 by ^-f in., broadest in the middle, angles broad, rounded. "Indian Oak " 

 of the English denizens. 



