MYRT.1CE.E. 375 



51 ? Careya Roxb. 1 — Flowers nearly of Barringtonia, 5-merous. 

 Stamens ao ; the exterior longest and the innermost short sterile 

 anantherous ; the intermediate fertile ; anthers small, versatile. 

 Germen 4-5-looular ; ovules oo , C-seriate, etc., of Barringtonia* 

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

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

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

 tate ; dowers 3 interruptedly spicate or racemose lateral. {East India. 

 trop. Australia:'*) 



52. Petersia Welw. 3 — "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 semiorbicular veined wings; seeds 1-4; embryo 

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

 pellucid-punctate ; flowers 7 in short dense racemes solitary in upper 

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

 caducous." 8 [Trop. west. Africa. 9 ) 



53. Fœtidia Comuers. 10 — 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 co , epigynous very 

 crowded, co -seriate ; filaments free, unequal j 11 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 co , inserted on 



1 PI. Coromand. iii. 13, t. 217, 218 ; Fl.Ind. ii. tonia). — Be.vth. PI, Austral, iii. 289. — Walp. 



638.— DC. Prodi: iii. 295 (part) .— Endi.. Gen. n. Sep. ii. 192. 



6326.— Bl. V. Houtt. PI. Serres, vii. 25.— B. H. s Ex B. H. Gen. 721, n. 61 a (not Kl.). 



Gen. 721, n. 62. — Cambra Hah. Mya. iii. 187 (ex 6 "Or with wings broadly obeordate (2J in. 



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



Ind. ii. 510. — Doxoma Mieus {Joe. cit. 54, 99, t. ' Rather small. 



15). A genus proposed for Careya ■ pendilla 8 " A genus allied to Barringtonia, differing in 



GiiiFr. Stravadimn coohinchinense Bl. Barring- punctate leaves, wings of calyx, and fruit and 



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



earcostachys Wall. B. sumatrana Mia. B. neo- "Spec. 1. P. af ricana Welw. — Laws. Oliv. 



caledonica Vieill. Yriesii Teysm. etc. Fk 'Prop. Afr. ii. 439. 



■ Of which rather a section. 10 Ex J. Gen. 325. — Lamk. Diet. ii. 457 ; ///. t. 



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

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



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



t. 117, 157. — Wight and Arn. Prodr. i. 334. — " The larger the nearer they are to the middle 



Tinv. Enum. PI. Zeyl. 119.— Ilia. PI. Ind.-Bat. of the sepals, often inflexed in the bud. 

 i. p. i. 494. — E. Muell. Praym. v. 183 {Barring- 



