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51 ? Careya Roxb.i — Flowers nearly of Barringtonia, 5-nierous. 

 Stamens 00 ; the exterior longest and the innermost short sterile 

 anaiitherous ; the intermediate fertile ; anthers small, versatile. 

 Germcn 4-5-locular; ovules 00, 2-seriate, etc., oi Bar ring tonia.'^ 

 Berry globose corticate, crowned with calyx ; seeds 00 , nestling in 

 pulp. Embryo undivided (of Barringtonia). — Lofty trees or some- 

 times subshrubby ; leaves alternate collected at top of twigs impunc- 

 tate ; flowers'^ interruptedly spicate or racemose lateral. (East India, 

 trop. Australia^) 



52. Petersia Welw.^ — ^' Flowers nearly of Barringtonia, 4- 

 merous; receptacle ovoid-turbinate, externally herbaceous-4-alate. 

 Sepals 4, alternating with wings, imbricate. Stamens all fertile ; 

 anthers sub-2-dymous ; cells divaricate. Germen inferior ; cells 2, 

 CO -ovulate. Fruit fibrous oblong,^ furnished externally with 4 longi- 

 tudinal membranous semigrbicular veined wings ; seeds 1-4 ; embryo 

 . . . ? — A large tree ; leaves alternate, penninerved membranous 

 pellucid-punctate; flowers'^ in short dense racemes solitary in upper 

 axils or gathered in a terminal corymb ; bracts and bracteoles few 

 caducous."^ (Trop, west, Africa,^) 



53. Foetidia Commees.'" — Flowers hermaphrodite apetalous, 3-4- 

 merous^ very rarely 5-mcrous ; receptacle turbinate, enclosing adnate 

 germen. Sepals 3-5 marginally inserted, thick coriaceous, valvate 

 or reduplicate- valvate, persistent. Stamens 00 , epigynous very 

 crowded, go -seriate ; filaments free, unequal ;^^ anthers ovate or ob- 

 long, versatile ; cells parallel, longitudinally rimose. Germen inferior, 

 2-5-locular ; cells equal in number to sepals and alternating with 

 them ; style central erect slender, at apex stigmatose shortly 3-5- 

 branched; branches open-recurved. Ovules in cells go , inserted on 



^ PL Coromand. iil 13, t. 217, 218; Fl.Ind.ii. ^oma).— Bexth. M. Austral, iii. 289.— Walp. 



638.— DC. Prodr. iii. 295 (part) .— Endl. Gen. n. Pep. ii. 192. 



6326.— Bl. V. Houtt. Fl. Serves, vii. 25.— B. H. ^ Ex B. H. Gen. 721, n. 61 a (not Kl.). 



Gen. 721, n. 62.— CambeaKxM. Mys. iii. 187 (ex ^ "Or with wings broadly obcordate {2\ in. 



Endl.). — Miers {loc. cit.t. 16, 17).— Hook. Fl. long, 2 in. broad)." 



Ind. ii. 510. — Doxoma Mieks {loc. cit. 54, 99, t. ' Eather small. 



15). A genus proposed for Careya pendula ^ '' A. gemx&dlMQ^ to Barringtonia,A\EQxmg\n. 



Griff. Stravadium cochinchinense Bl. Barring- punctate leaves, wings of calyx, and fruit and 



tonia cylindrostachya Griff. B. rosea, Wall. B. anthers." (B. H.) 



sarcostachjs Wx-Lia. B. sumatrana MiQ. B. neo- » gpec. 1. P. africana Welw. — Laws. Oliv. 



cnledonica Vieill. Vriesii Teysm. etc. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. 439. 



•- Of which rather a section. ^° Ex J. Geu. 325.— Lamk. Diet. ii. 457 ; III. t. 



^ Large or small, often showy, white ; sta- 419.— DC. Prodr. iii. 295.— Endl. Gen. n. 6328. 



mens a beautiful red. — H. Bn. Payer Fam. Nat. 369.— B. H. Gen. 724, 



^ Spec. 2, 3. Wight, III. ii. t. 99, 100 ; Icon. n. 73.— Baker, Fl. Maurit. 120. 



t. 147, 157.— Wight and Arn. Prodr. i. 334.— ^^ The larger the nearer they are to the middle 



Thw. Fnum. PI. Zeyl. 119.— MiQ. Fl. Ind.-Bat. of the sepals, often inflexed in the bud. 

 i. p. i. 494. — F. Muell. Fragm. v. 183 {^Barring- 



