Eugenia.] XXXVII. MYKTACE^E. 235 



arcuate nerves, very prominent below, intramarginal veins generally not 

 prominent. Mowers tetramerous, small, greenish, odorous, nearly sessile, 

 in 3-flowered cymes, arranged in broad lax trichotomous panicles, with 

 spreading or divaricate branches, arising from the leafless nodes of the pre- 

 vious year's wood. Calyx campanulate, with short obtuse marginate 

 teeth. Petals cohering and falling off in a calyptra. Berry globose or 

 ovoid, J-J in. long, with but little mark of calyx, rugose, very juicy. 



Sub -Himalayan forests from the Jumna to Assam, ascending to 2000 ft. 

 Oudh and Gorakhpur forests, Chittagong, Burma, the western coast, and Ceylon. 

 Outside India in South' China and the Indian Archipelago. The fruit is eaten, 

 and the tree is planted for its fruit. The leaves are renewed in April, the old 

 leaves turning red before they are shed. Fl. April, May. The fruit ripens in 

 June, July. In dry places a scrubby tree 35 ft. high and 5 ft. girth, but under 

 favourable conditions grows to be one of the largest and most handsome trees of 

 the genus. Bark 1 in. thick or more, cinereous, brown or blackish, rough with 

 irregular hard scales, leaving cavities when they exfoliate. Inner substance 

 red, fibrous. Sap-and heart-wood similar, brown, close- and fine-grained. Tough 

 and durable, seasons and polishes well. Used in Kamaon and Garhwal for build- 

 ing and agricultural implements. The fruit is eaten. 



4. BARRINGTONIA, Forst. 



Trees with alternate leaves, usually approximate at the ends of branches. 

 Flowers in terminal or lateral spikes or racemes, with small deciduous 

 bracts. Calyx-tube ovoid or turbinate, not at all or scarcely produced 

 above the ovary. Petals 4 or 5, adhering at the base to the staminal ring. 

 Stamens indefinite, in many series, connate at the base into a short ring 

 or cup ; anthers small, versatile or fixed near the base. Ovary inferior, 

 with an annular disc on the top within the stamens, 2-4-celled ; 2-8 ovules 

 in each cell ; style filiform, with a small stigma. Fruit pyramidal ovoid 

 or oblong, hard and fibrous, indehiscent. Seed solitary, with a thick testa; 

 albumen none. Embryo thick, fleshy, consisting of two concentric homo- 

 geneous masses, the central mass corresponding to the pith, the outer to 

 the bark, both separated by a thin layer of delicate vessels and fibres, cor- 

 responding to the woody portion of stem and root. Cotyledons rudimen- 

 tary, scale-like. On the structure of the seeds of Barringtonia and Careya, 

 see Thomson in Journ. Linn. Soc. ii. 47. 



1. B. acutangula, Gartner Sem. ii. t. 101 ; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 204 ; 

 Eoxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 635; W. & A. Prodr. 333. Vern. Samundar phul, 

 panniari, ingar y Oudh ; Kanaka chettu, Telugu. 



A moderate-sized tree, with obovate or oblanceolate leaves, entire or 

 serrulate, narrowed into a short petiole, glabrous, pale beneath, 3-5 in. 

 long. Flowers red, in long slender pendulous racemes ; bracts oblong, 

 very deciduous. Ovary 2-celled, with 2 pendulous ovules in each cell. 

 Fruit oblong, 4-angled, 1 in. long or longer. 



Common on banks of streams, edges of swamps, and in moist places generally, 

 in South India, Burma, Bengal, the Oudh forests, and the sub-Himalayan 

 tract, extending west to the Jumna. Also Indian Archipelago and North 



