■Careya^ Myrtacecz. 191 



4. B. acutang-ula, Gaertn. Fruct. ii. 97 (179 1). Ela-midella, S. 



Adampu, T. 



Fl. Zeyl. n. 190. Ei/gejiia acutangula, L. Sp. PI. 471. Stravadium 

 obtusangulum, Bl. in Fl. des Serres, vii. (185 1) 24. Thw. Enum. 119. 

 C. P. 1592. 



Fl. B. Ind. ii. 508. Gaertn, 1. c. t. 101 (fruit only). Bedd. Fl. Sylv. 

 t. 204. Trans. Linn. Soc, series 2, i. t. 17 {Stravadium acutangulum). 



A small tree with thick trunk, bark brownish grey, rough, 

 young parts glabrous ; 1. 3-5 in., obovate- or oblong-oval, 

 tapering to base, subacute at apex, crenate-serrate, bright 

 green, not shining, venation reticulate pellucid, petiole \-\'m.\ 

 fl. about 1 in. diam. on short spreading ped., racemes 9-12 in., 

 terminal, pendulous ; cal. not closed in bud, tube very short, 

 segm. 4 regular, broadly oval, rounded, finely ciliate, pet. 

 small, about \ in., fil. about f in.; fruit i^-ij in., oblong-ovoid 

 somewhat narrowed to base, truncate at both ends, bluntly 

 quadrangular, capped with small cal.-segm. 



Dry region, round margins of tanks and similar places; rather 

 common. Jaffna; Mannar; Trincomalie; Kantalai; Batticaloa. Fl. 

 June-August; pet. cream-coloured, stam. dark bright crimson. 



Also in Peninsular India, Malaya, and N. Australia. 



Wood white, moderately heavy, even-grained. The fruit is chewed as 

 a remedy for sore throat ; it is also considered efficacious in rheumatism. 



Miers (I.e. 81) maintains as a separate species S. obticsangulum, BL, 

 and quotes for it the C. P. number above given. I can find nothing to 

 warrant the separation; the angles of the fruit are always obtuse, as 

 shown in the excellent original figure of Gaertner. 



4. CAREVA,* A^. 



Tree, 1. alternate, fl. in crowded erect spikes ; cal.-tube 

 adnate to ov. and not produced beyond it, segm. 4, imbricate; 

 pet. 4, imbricate ; stam. very numerous, epigynous, in many 



5, connate at base, fil. very long ; ov. inferior, 4-celled, 

 with numerous ovules in 2 rows on axile placentas, style long, 

 simple ; fruit large, fleshy, indehisccnt, with numerous seeds 

 immersed in the flesh ; embryo without cotyledons (macropo- 

 dousj, no endosperm. — Sp. 3 ; all in FL B. Ind. 



C. arborea, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 54 (1814). Xtahata, S. K.a- 

 chaddai, /'. 



Enum. 1 19. C. i'. 3169. 



Fl. Ii. Ind. ii. 510 (not ;.i'.'n for Ceylon;. Wight, 111. tt. 99, 100, 

 copied in Bedd. 11. Sylv. t. 205 (poor). 



Dr. William Carey, the missionary, superintendent of 



the < .nrden at Serampore, and editor of Roxburgh's h'lora 



Indica. Died 1834. 



