Barringtonia.} MELASTOMACEE. 493 
filaments filiform, long, all fertile. Carpels 2-4, connate in a 
-24-celled inferior ovary, crowned by the annular epigynous disk; 
ovules 2-8 in each cell, pendulous; style long, simple; stigma 
small. Fruit a fibrous berry, crowned by the persistent calyx- 
limb, globose or quadrangular, by abortion 1-seeded. Seed ovoid 
_ orellipsoid; albumen 0; embryo large; cotyledons subobsolete. 
Ee Calyx valvate ; fruit ovoid, when ripe slightly 4-angled towards base 
7 racemosa. 
_ Calyx slightly imbricate; fruit oblong, fusiform, markedly 4-angled 
throughout .acutangula. 
807. BarRincronia RAcEMOSA BL; F. I. ii. 684; F. B. I. ii, 5075 
E. D. B. 193. 
Sundribuns. 
A medium-sized tree. Beng. Samundra. . 
808. Barrineronta acuranGuLa Gaertn. ; F. L. ii. 635; F. B. I. 
ii, 508; E. D. B. 180 
In all the provinces. : 
A small tree. Hind. Hidjal; Beng. Hidjal; Uriya 
Kinjol, hidjara. 
Order LY. MELASTOMACEA. 
‘orlaceous extra-staminal corona. Sepals connate as a calyx with 
~ united by vertical walls to the ovary, sometimes nearly free; 
me usually 4-5., sometimes 8- or 6-lobed, occasionally truncate, 
Ry deciduous as a cap. Petals as many as lobes of calyx, 
Plaats Margin of tube, contorted. Stamens 1-seriate, as 
_ Many as or more than, often twice as many as petals ; filament 
ie inwards in bud, inserted with petals, often alternately shorter 
, und longer, sometimes alternately perfect and rudimentary ; 
ean 2locular, basifixed; connective often appendaged near the 
base by bristles or tubercles or a spur ; dehiscence usually ter- 
: hy Porous, rarely by short, longitudinal, introrse slits. Ovary 
_ ~ Farely 3- or 6-locular, very rarely 1-locular ; style ag 
