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•2 in. long. Petals oblong sub-acute, 1 in. long. Filaments twice as 

 long as the petals. Fruit broadly-ovoid or elliptic, smooth, not angled 

 or only slightly so, crowned by the small calyx-lobes, 1*5 to 2 in. long 

 and about ]*35 in. in diam. Clarke in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. II, 509 

 (excl. syn. B. pendula, Kurz and Doxomma pendula^ Miers). B. cylin- 

 drostachya, Griff. Notul. IV, 655. B. sarcostacJiys, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I, 

 Pt. 1, 490. Stravidium sarcostacJiys, Blume in Van Houtte FL des 

 Serres, VII, 24. S. acuminatum^ Wall. Cat. 3636. Doxomma macros- 

 tachyum, cylindrostachyum, acuminatum, Miers in Trans. Linn. Soc, Ser. 

 II, Bot. I, 104, 100, 102. Careya macrostachya, Jack in Mai. Misc. I, 

 47 ; DC. Prodr. Ill, 295. 



Malacca: Maingay (K.D. 763); Griffith (K.D. 2421): Penang: 

 Curtis 1581. Negri Sembilan : Ridley 1852. Perak : Scortechini (Yfith- 

 out No.) ; Wray 1299, 2410, 3136, 3642, 3635 ; King's Collector 34^02, 3779, 

 4136, 10075, 10206, J0615. Distrib.— Borneo, Burmah, Griffith; 

 Gallatty. 



This is allied to B. pendula, Kurz — a rare species from Southern Burma 

 priginally described by Griffith as Careya pendula (Notuloe IV, 661). That 

 species, however, has narrower leaves than this with fewer nerves ; the calyx-tube is 

 elongate, the stamens are only about one inch long; and the fruit is narrowly oblong, 

 boldly 4-angled, more than 2 in. long and only about "65 in. in diam. There is an 

 excellent drawing of this plant with full analyses of the flowers in the Herb. Kew, 

 which was made from living specimens by the Rev. C. Parish. The species has 

 been reduced in Hooker's Flora of British India to B. macrostachya from which it 

 differs in the points above noted. 



6. Barringtonia Scortechinii, King n, sp. A glabrous tree, 

 50 to 60 feet high ; young branches slender, pale-brown, glabrous. 

 Leaves thinly coriaceous, elliptic-oblong to oblanceolate-oblong, tapering 

 (often very much) to the petiole ; the apex acute or shortly acuminate; 

 the margins entire or obscurely and minutely dentate ; main-nerves 

 6 or 7 pairs, spreading, curved ; length 3 to 6*5 in. ; breadth 

 1-5 to 2 5 in. ; petiole '5 to '8 in. Spikes lateral, pendulous, 6 to 18 in. 

 long, glabrous, rather slender but slightly thickening with age. Flowers 

 numerous, 1*5 to 2 in. long, narrow. Galyx-tuhe bracteate at the base, 

 glabrous, obconic, 4-angled, '25 in. long ; the 4 lobes shorter than the tube, 

 broad, rounded. Petals oblong, blunt, "75 in. long. Filaments 1*5 to 2 in. 

 long. Ovary ^-celled (usually). Fruit oblong, somewhat tapered but 

 truncate at each end : the apex mamillate crowned by the small calyx- 

 lobes, smooth, 3 in. long and 1 in. diam. 



Perak : Scortechini 237, 395, 1674, 2020 ; . Wray 2087 ; King's 

 Collector 3598, 3854, 6252 ; Ciirtis 1296. 



There are two distinct forms under this species; one with oblong-elliptic 



