1 90 MyrtaceCB. [Barringtonia* 



finely crenate-serrate, glabrous and shining on both sides, 

 somewhat bullate between the strongly marked veins ; fl. 

 large, 2\ in. diam., on stout minutely puberulous divaricate 

 ped. \-% in. long, laxly arranged in flexible pendulous 

 racemes 1-2 ft. long, and terminal or from axils on the old 

 wood, buds ovoid, bluntly pointed ; cal.-tube turbinate, 

 puberulous, limb splitting irregularly into 2 or 3 unequal segm., 

 one of which often carries with it the top of the cal., leaving 

 the others truncate ; pet. connate at base, about 1 in., oval or 

 oblong-oval, spreading ; fil. rather over 1 in., erect, spreading ; 

 ovules 3 or 4 in each ov.-cell ; fruit 2— 2\ in. by if in. wide, 

 ovoid or oblong-ovoid, crowned with persistent cal.-segm., 

 circular on section or very bluntly 4-lobed, pericarp leathery, 

 thick, brownish-crimson; seed if in. 



Moist low country, especially near the coast, on the shores of back- 

 waters, lakes, &c, but also inland ; common. Conspicuous round 

 Colombo Lake. Fl. nearly all the year ; cream-coloured, fil. pink or 

 crimson, very slightly scented. 



Also on Malabar Coast and in Malaya and Polynesia. 



There are two varieties of flower in this, one with the filaments 

 pinkish-cream-coloured, the other with them crimson, the darker-flowered 

 plant has also usually smaller leaves. 



Hermann has a good figure (but no specimen), and from this Linnaeus 

 took his description. 



3. B. zeylanica, Gardn. in Fl. B. Ind. ii. 508 (1879). G-oda- 

 midella, S. 



B. racemosa, var. /3, Thw. Enum- 119. Butonica zeylanica, Miers in 

 Trans. Linn. Soc, ser. 2, i. jj. C. P. 2632. 

 Fl. B. Ind. ii. 508. 



Bark grey, rough, marked with prominent leaf-scars ; 1. 

 smaller than in B. racemosa, 4-7 in., sub-sessile, obovate- 

 lanceolate, much tapering to base, acuminate, acute, finely 

 serrate, glabrous, rather thin; fl. about \\ in. diam., ped. |— f 

 in., rather slender, divaricate, buds nearly globose ; cal.-tube 

 turbinate, limb irregularly splitting into 2-4 unequal segm.; 

 fil. about f in.; fruit about 3 in. by less than f in. wide, 

 narrowly oblong, tapering to base, crowned with cal.-segm., 

 obtusely 4-angled ; seed about i\ in. long. 



Moist low country; rare. Galle, 1844 (Gardner); Ratnapura ; 

 ■Gilimalle. Fl. March. 



Endemic. 



I have never met with this in a living state, and only know it from the 

 C. P. specimens from which the above description is taken ; it seems a 

 good species. It is probably Siravadia integrifolia, Moon Cat. 39, from. 

 Kalutara, but of that I have not seen authentic specimens. 



The astringent bark is used in medicine. 



