374 NA TOE. I L IIISTOR Y OF PL A UTS. 



leaves opposite entire (small) ; flowers ' axillary solitary ; peduncles 

 short or very short, 2-bracteolate. (Australia?) 



IV. BAERLNGTONIA. 



49. Barringtonia 3 Forst. — Flowers hermaphrodite, 4- or rarely 

 5-merous ; receptacle concave ohconical or sacciform, scarcely or not 

 at all produced beyond the germen adnate within. Calyx valvate, 

 finally 2-4-fid (Butonica 4 ) or imbricate 3-4-lobed (Stravadium 5 ). 

 Petals 4, 5, epigynously inserted and alternating with sepals, imbri- 

 cate. Stamens oo , at base connate with petals in a short ring and 

 falling with them ; filaments otherwise free, exserted ; anthers small, 

 versatile or rarely subbasifixed, 2-rimose. Disk epigynous sur- 

 rounding with a short ring the top of the germen and base of style. 

 Germen inferior, 2-4-locular ; style simple, often subulate, scarcely 

 or not at all dilated at stigmatose apex. Ovules in cells 2-co , trans- 

 verse or descending, 2-seriate, or the inferior descending ; microp3'le 

 introrsely superior. Fruit fleshy or oftener fibrous, often 4-angular, 

 crowned with persistent calyx, indéhiscent. Seed generally by 

 abortion 1, testa oftener thick ; embryo exalbuminous fleshy undi- 

 vided corticate. — Trees or shrubs ; leaves alternate, often crowded at 

 top of twigs, entire, crenate or serrate, penninerved im punctate ; 

 flowers in racemes or spikes, sometimes broken or very elongate ; 

 bracts small caducous ; bracteoles 2, very small or 0. (Trop, regions 

 of old world.)— See y. 326. 



50? Planchonia Bl. 6 — Flowers nearly of Barringtonia, 4-merous; 

 sepals 4, imbricate. Stamens cc ; anthers small, versatile ; the interior 

 longer anantherous. Germen 3-4-locular ; cells oo -ovulate. Berry 

 corticate, crowned with calyx. Seeds few; funicle elongate ; cotyle- 

 dons of involute circinate embryo foliaceous plicate ; radicle very long 

 clavate spirally convolute. — Trees ; leaves alternate crenate impunctate 

 and other characters of Barringtonia', 1 flowers terminal, 8 shortly race- 

 mose ; bracts and bracteoles not caducous, oblong. 9 (Indian Archvp. 10 ) 



1 Minute, or small, pink. timorensis Bl. — Chytlenanthm Miers. (loc. cit. 



~ Spec. 6, 7. Poir. Diet. Suppl. v. 247 (Star- 54, 111). A genus proposed for IS. excelsa Bl. 

 oxylon). — S.u. Trans. Linn. Soc. iii. 259 (Imbricu- i Miers (loc. cit. 54, 59, t. 13, 14). 



Ha). — Sieb. Spretig. Syst. Cur. post. 149 (Bœckea). «Minis (lue. cit. 54, 80, t. 17); 54, 107, t. 



—F. Mukll. Fraijm. i. 30 (Beechci) ; iv. 03 18. 

 (Thryptomene). — Bentil. FI. Austral, iii. 63. 6 Y. Soutte FI. des Serres, vii. 24. — B. H. Oen. 



3 Miers, ' On Barrmgfoniacete' (Trans. Linn. 721, n. 03. — Miers (loc. cit. 54, 90, t. 18), — 



Soc. ser. 2, i. [1875] 47; Barringtonia (loc. cit.) Hook. FI. Ind. ii. 511. 

 64, 55, t. 10). — Agasla Miers (loc. cit. 54, 59, t. " Of which rather a section (?). 



11, 12). A genus proposed fori?, splendida,So- 8 " Golden greenish or white." 



land, macrophylla Jliu. speciosa Wight & Arn. '■' Rather perhaps a section of the preceding ? 



— Msgadendron Miers (loc. cit. 54, 109, t. 15, 16). 10 Spec. 2, 3 (or var. of one ?). Mia. Ft. Ind.- 



A genus proposed for II. macrocarpa Uassk. and Bat. i. p. i. 493. — \Vali\ Ann. iv. S.J2. 



