Barringonia.] t MyrtdCeCB* 1 8 9 



i. B. speciosa, Forst. Char. Gen. Plant. 76 (1776). Mudilla, S. 



Moon Cat. pt. 2, 29. Thw. Enum. 119. Agasta z'ndica, Miers in 

 Trans. Linn. Soc, ser. 2, i. 61. 



Fl. R. Ind. ii. 507. Wight, Ic. 547 (not good). Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 1. c. t. 12 {Agasta indica). 



A rather small or moderate-sized tree with a close round 

 head, bark pale grey, branchlets very stout, marked with promi- 

 nent leaf-scars, young parts glabrous; I. very large, 10-12 in., 

 crowded, sessile, obovate, tapering to base, rounded at apex, 

 entire, perfectly glabrous, polished and shining on both sides, 

 midrib very stout and broad ; fl. very large, about 7 in. diam., 

 on very stout glabrous ped. 3-4 in. long, in a terminal erect 

 raceme, buds nearly globular, apiculate ; cal.-tube about \ in., 

 bluntly quadrangular, glabrous, limb veiny, splitting into 2 or 

 3 concave segm., pet. usually 4 (rarely 5), very slightly con- 

 nate, about 2\ in., broadly oval, concave ; staminal ring 

 slightly adnate to base of pet., fil. 3-4 in., erect ; ov. inferior, 

 4-celled, ovules 6-8 in each cell, style as long as stam.; fruit 

 large, depressed, about 4 in. high, quadrangular, bluntly 

 pointed, crowned with persistent cal.-lobes, angles usually 

 acute, pericarp very thick, smooth and shining, pale brownish- 

 yellow, texture light fibrous-spongy, with strong fibres round 

 the seed ; seed over 2 in., ovoid. 



Seashores ; very rare. On the south coast from Galle to Matara, 

 possibly native ; certainly planted elsewhere. Fl. May, creamy-white, 

 odorous, filaments and style pink at top. 



Also on the coasts of the Andamans, at Singapore, and generally in 

 the Malay Archipelago and Polynesia to N. Queensland. 



Thwaites gives C. P. 3610 for this, but in Hb. Perad. that number is 

 B. race7>iosa, and there is no specimen of B. speciosa. A beautiful tree, 

 much planted for ornament on the coast. If this were an old inhabitant 

 here, it could scarcely have escaped notice by Hermann ; as, however, 

 it is one of those trees the seeds of which are carried by sea-currents, it 

 may well have been brought to our southern shores by this natural 

 agency. (See Tennent, ' Ceylon,' ii. 100.) 



First collected in the Pacific Is., and Miers (1. c. t. 10) figures the 

 original plant of which the fruit is broadly ovate-ovoid and very slightly 

 quadrangular. 



2. B. racemosa, III. in DC. Prod. iii. 288 (1828). Diya- 

 midella, V. 



II. Zeyl. n. 191. Eugenia racemosa, L. Sp. PI. 471. Stravadia rubra, 

 ,j. Thw. Enum. 119. Butonica racemosa, Juss., Miers, 

 I. c6& C. P. }6io. 



fl. B. Ind. ii. 507 (not given for Ceylon). Wight, Ic. t. 152. 



mall tree with long drooping branches, bark grey with 

 prominent leaf-scars ; 1. large, crowded at ends of branches, 

 sub-sessile, C 12 in., obovate-oval, tapering to base, acute, 



