-areya.~\ LIX. MYRTAOEJE (BARRINGTONIE.E by C. B. Clarke.) 511 



2. C. arborea, Ro.ib. Cor. PL in. 14, t. 218 ; Fl. Ind. ii. 638 ; a tree, leaves 

 obovate or oblong, spikes about 3-flowered, petals obtuse. DC. Prodr. iii. 295 : 



Wall. Cat. 3640; W. $ A. Prodr. 334; Wight. Itt. 99, 100; Dalz. $ Gibs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 95 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 205 : Brand. For. Fl. 236 ; Kurz For. Fl. i. 

 499 ; Miers in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. ii. Bot. i. 97.Rheede Hort. Mai. iii. 36. 



Throughout INDIA, alt. 0-4000 ft. ; from the Himalaya to Travancore and Tenas- 

 serim : no example from Ceylon. 



Attaining" 30-60 ft. Leaves 12 by 6 in., oblong or orbicular, obtuse or shortly 

 acuminate, narrowed at the base, crenate-denticulate, glabrous ; petiole 0-1 in. Spikes 

 3-8 in. ; flowers usually few, sessile ; bracts 3, unequal. Calyx total length f-1 in., 

 terete, campanulate, obscurely pubescent ; lobes ovate, obtuse. Petals If in., white, 

 elliptic. Filaments red. Ovules in two rows in each cell of the ovary (Kurz}. Fruit 

 2 by 2 in., globose, surmounted by an enlarged mouth having a depressed pit at the 

 vertex within the calyx-teeth. Seeds f- in., ellipsoid. Dissepiments of the fruit 

 permanent, at least sometimes. C. orbiculata, Miers I. c. i. 98 1. 16, fig. 6-8 (founded 

 on Griffith's example Kew Distrib. No. 2428 collected at Mergui) has the ovary slightly 

 verrucose, apparently from the attack of some insect. 



3. C. sphaerica, Roxb. FL Ind. ii. 636 ; a tree, leaves obovate or orbicular, 

 spikes many-flowered, petals acute white. Wall. Cat. 3639 ; Wight Ic. t. 147, 

 556 ; Kurz For. Fl. i. 500 ; Miers in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. ii. Bot. i. 97, t. 16, 

 fig. 9-15. 



Mountains of CHITTAGONG, Eoxburgh. 



This is very doubtfully separable from the preceding species : Roxburgh says that 

 in each cell of the ovary the ovules are in six rows (not in two as in C. arborea). Mr. 

 Kurz does not appear to have seen the tree, and closely follows Roxburgh. Neither 

 Col. Beddome nor C. B. Clarke have ever distinguished C. spharica alive. Mr. Miers 

 has set aside in the herbarium (as C. sphcerica) examples collected as C. arborea by 

 Wallich, Rottler, Ritchie and J. D. H., so that none of these could have distinguished 

 the tree in the field. 



11. PLANCUONIA, Blume. 



Trees. Leaves alternate, crowded towards the ends of the branches, mem- 

 branous, crenulate, pinnate-nerved, without dots. Racemes short, terminal ; 

 flowers greenish-yellow or white. Calyx-tube turbinate, scarcely produced 

 above the ovary ; lobes 4, imbricate. Petals 4, imbricate. Stamens very many, 

 in several series, slightly connate at the base, innermost without anthers. 

 Ovary inferior, 3-4-celled, crowned by an annular disc ; style long, simple, 

 stigma, small ; ovules many in each cell. Fruit (ex Miers and Kurz) large, 

 3-1 -celled, fibrous, ovoid, crowned by the calyx. Seeds several, ellipsoid, lying 

 in pulp ; albumen ; embryo horseshoe-shaped, cotyledons short. DISTRIB. 

 Species 2, extending from the Andamans to Australia. 



1. P. littoralis, Van Houtte in FL des Serres vii. 25 ; glabrous, leaves 

 obovate-oblong, flowers greenish on very short thick pedicels. Miers in Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. ser. ii. Bot. i. 94 ; Kurz For. "Fl. i. 500. P. littoralis, Miers I. c. Piri- 

 garda valida, Blume Bijd. 1096. Gustavia valida, DC. Prodr. iii. 290 ; Hassk. 

 in Flora, 1844, 595. 



ANDAMANS, in the evergreen coast-forests ; Kurz. 



An evergreen tree 40-60 ft. Leaves 7 by 3^ in., obtuse or scarcely acute, much 

 narrowed at the base, denticulate ; petiole |A| in. Raceme short, terminal ; flowers 

 middle-sized. Calyx-tube in., top-shaped, obsoletely 8-angled ; segments \ in., ovate, 

 rounded. Petals 1 in., obtuse, reflexed. Filaments 1^ in., purple. (Description 

 chiefly copied ( from Kurz). 



