Barringtonia. } MYRTACER. 495 
the margin ; flowers large, white, either solitary on a slender bolas 
cle or usually by 2 or 3, sessile, with a pedicel-like base o 
shortly jointed- pedicelled, forming a lax, rather short, Paice 
often corymb-like raceme at the end of the branches or laterall 
from above the scars of the fallen leaves; calyx clavate-turbinate, 
narrowed into a short pedicel-like base, smooth, about 3-4 in. long, 
the limb persistently 4-lobed, the lobes broader than long, rounded, 
2 of them somewhat larger ‘and about 3 lin. broad ; petals 4, free, 
obovate-orbicular, about $ in. long or longer ; filaments long and 
slender, glabrous ; berries depressed-turbinate, contracted in a ve 
short stalk, the size of a cherry to that of a wood-apple, white, 
glossy and. smooth, crowned by the carnescent incurved calyx- lobes, 
usually 1- or few-seeded, the endocarp spongy-fleshy, thick, edible. 
Has.—Frequent in the evergreen age of the Andamans.—Fl. 
March-Apr.; Fr. May-June.—s.—S.S. = Aren 
36. E. Jambos, L.; Brand. For. FI. 938: Na evergreen tree 
(20—30 +4 38—5 + 3—4), all parts glabrous, the branchlets more or 
less 4-cornered, pale brown ; leaves lanceolate, acute at the base, on 
a strong petiole 2-3 lin. lone, bluntish and rather long acuminate, 
4-6 in. long, coriaceous, glabrous, the lateral nerves thin but pro- 
minent, rather copious and irregularly parallel, laxly and thinly 
net-veined between ; flowers large, white, on about 4 in. long or 
somewhat shorter pedicels , forming a short, glabrous, simple corymb- 
like raceme at the end of the branchlets ; “calyx about 4 an in. long 
or longer, clavate-turbinate, smooth, clavately narrowed at the 
base, the limb 4-lobed, the lobes almost equal, broad, rounded, 
about 2-3 lin. long, persistent; petals 4, obovate-orbicular, about 
4 an in. long, free; filaments very long, glabrous; berries almost 
globular or ovoid, dull yellow, smooth, thick-fleshy, edible, crowned 
by the inflexed calyx-lobes, 1- or 2- seeded. 
Has.—Frequently cultivated in native gardens all over Burma.—Fl. May- 
July ; Fr. CS. 
BARRINGTONIA, Forst. 
Calyx-tube ovoid or turbinate, not or hardly produced beyond 
the ovary, the limb valvately rupturing into 2-4 lobes, or 3-4- (very 
rarely 5-) cleft, with the lobes imbricate in bud. Petals 4, rarely 
5, at the base adnate to the staminal cup. oe indefinite, in 
several rows, at the base united in a cup or ring, 
anthers; filaments filiform; anthers versatile or almost basifix. 
Disk annular. Ovary inferior, 2-4-celled, with 2 to 8 areata 
or horizontal superposed ovules in each cell a in 2 
style filiform with a small stigma. Berry fibrous-fleshy, terete or 
angular, crowned by the calyx-limb, by abortion usually l-seeded. 
