Careya.'] LECYTHIDACEAE. 487 



Stamens very numerous, in many rows, connate below ; filaments 

 filiform, all bearing anthers. Ovary inferior, 2-4-celled ; ovules 

 2-8 in each cell, pendulous or horizontal ; style long, filiform ; 

 stigma small. Fruit a fibrous berry, globose ovoid or quad- 

 rangular, crowned by the persistent calyx-limb, 1 -seeded. Seed 

 ovoid or ellipsoid, exalbuminous ; embryo large, cotyledons 

 rudimentary. 



Calyx-lobes valvate ; fruit large, about 2 in. long, ovoid ; flowers 

 large, l'5-2 in. in diam. ; leaves large, up to 12 in. long....l. racemosa. 

 Calyx -lobes imbricate ; fruit medium -sized, about 1 in. long, quad- 

 rangular ; flowers rather small, -3-'5 in. in diam. ; leaves up to 6 in- 

 long 2. acutangula. 



1. BARRINGTONIA RACEMOSA, Roxb. ; F. B.I. ii. 507; "W. & A. 

 333 ; Wt. Ic. t. 152. 



W. Coast, in Malabar and Travancore, along backwaters, 

 often planted for ornament. 



A medium-sized ornamental tree with large flowers, cream- 

 coloured with pink stamens, in pendulous racemes, and 

 large brownish-red fruits. Wood white, soft, porous. Yern, 

 Tarn. Samuthram ; Mai. Samuthraccham. 



2. BARRINGTONIA ACUTANGULA, Gaertn. ; F. B. I. ii. 508 ; 

 W. & A. 333 ; Bedd. Fl. t. 204. 



E. & W. Coast Districts along streams and on swampy 

 land ; more scarce inland in the Deccan and Carnatic. 

 A medium- sized tree, conspicuous for its long pendent 

 racemes of pink flowers, succeeded by angular fruits, leaves 

 obovate. Bark dark brown, rough ; wood white, soft, with 

 a pretty silver-grain, used for furniture. Yern, Hind. Ijal ; 

 Ur. Hinjolo; Tel. Kurpa ; Tarn. Adampa ; Mai. Nir perzha. 



2. Careya, Eoxb. 



Trees or a small undershrnb. Leaves alternate, membranous, 

 crowded at the ends of the branches, penninerved, ere n ate -serrate, 

 Floivers large, showy, in racemes or interrupted spikes. Calyx- 

 tube campanulate or funnel-shaped, hardly produced beyond the 

 ovary; limb 4-lobed, the lobes imbricate. Petals 4, imbricate, 

 much longer than the calyx-lobes. Stamens very numerous, in 

 several rows, slightly connate at base ; filaments veiy long, 

 innermost and outermost without anthers. Ovary inferior, 4-5- 



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